Show I 1 B i liesl i I 1 COW CANNOT EAT ENOUGH PASTURE home grown feeds will fill out grain ration by J C exten flon dairyman kansas state agricultural college Col leeo knowing the needs of dairy cow and what they co cot cat t when on pasture pastura will add to tile the dollars from the milk bucket green succulent pasture Is naturally high in protein but Is low in total digestible nutrients A cow milking ocr 01 cr 20 pounds of milk a day cannot eat elou enough b pasture to provide the necessary carbohydrates to maintain that production grain feeding of this cow on pasture Is absolutely necessary her grain ration need not be high in protein home grown feeds will bal ance tile hie pasture A mixture of pounds of corn and 2110 20 pounds of oats should be fed at tile the rate of one pound of grain to every four and one halt half pounds of milk from froin the ayrshire jersey and guernsey and one pound of grain to ove five pounds of milk from the Holst holstean eln dry pasture contains about one third na as much protein as tile the green succulent grass an understanding of this fact makes mabes the elie successful dairyman man be begin in to add a high protein feed to his grata grain ration as soon eoon as pasture starts to dry the grain mix then Is composed of aw pounds of corn pounds of oats and pounds of cottonseed meal tile the rate of feeding Is changed to one pound of grain dally wily to every pound of tat fat produced a week abundance of pasture Is very important to tile dairy cow being the hardest worked animal on the farni farm she does not deed it littie gymnasium for exercise every time she produces fie fhe gallons of milk she has used u up p more energy than a team of 1500 pound horses plowing through an eight hour day |