Show DAIRY D AM Y COWS ON PASTURE NEED GRAIN ALSO cornell station advocates liberal ration for herd E S harrison who Is supervising the protein feeding experiment at the cornell comell university agricultural expert intent station says that cows on pas ture demand liberal grata grain feeding he assumes that it if the pasture were ideal and the cow could get and eat sit 11 the grass she wanted she could not produce up op to capacity on OD the nutrients she could digest from the pasture in other words he says even under ideal conditions of pasture it Is necessary necess nry to feed grain to heavy producing animals i bat on the typical dairy tann farm he tays says pastures are not ideal particularly in a dry season and a cow can gather only a relatively small part of the grass she needs on many of the short side hill pastures to in new york it takes a lot of real work on the part of a cow to collect what grass Is there this uses up energy which otherwise could go into milk production in addition hot weather and the annoyance of flies files add to the cows troubles and subtract from her power to make milk and this means that dairymen should feed grain during the summer at about the some same rate as in winter summer silage or a silage crop will make up tor for the loss of succulence in dried pasture or even hay abound be added to the ration but the main point mr harrlson harrison says Is ia to feed grain during the short pasture season and it will actually pay more inore profit than any grain fed at any vine time of the year not only does it help to maintain the milk flow during the summer but it will prevent the toss less of flesh by the cows and they will go into the barn la in the fall able to respond to good feeding and fully capable of giving their best returns to in money to their owners plan for keeping flies out of dairy stables windows la in the university of nebraska dairy barn have been painted blue this Is not to please the cows sense of beauty but to help fill the milk palls covering the glass open ings inge with blue ala bastine keeps the bars bara darter darker thus making it cooler and freer from flies files shutting shuttling ng out part of the light fro from m barns stalls anil and sheds has been satisfactory is in relieving farm fann animals from some of the worry caused by flies bles farmers declare openings can also be covered with burlap to a considerable sid tlde rable erable advantage windows in the university dairy barn are so arranged us as to open for ventilation without admitting direct sunlight the blue paint with which they have been co coated tied Is easily removed and will be taken off air after the summer Is ever soy bean hay excellent feed for all milk cows soy bean hay bay makes very excellent teed feed for milk cows when properly grown and cured cared the best quality of hay will be made if the beans are sown gown in rows about thirty or thirty six inches apart it will require two or three pecks of seed per acre the denlis should be one or two inches in the row when sown in this way enough cultivation must be given to beep epp the he weeds down they should be cut for bay when the hi first farst leaves begin to turn yellow the hay bay may be cut with the mower and the th crop handled the F same ame as ai alfalfa would be handled it is best to put it in small windrows wind rows with a side delivery rake as soon as the plants are blight slightly ly wilted from these they may go into small email cocks for further curing coring and from that point on handled aled as alfalfa hay bay would be handled |