Show dairymen up production by feeding good legume A number of dairymen are advising keeping your cows literally stuffed with good legume hay to step up milk production and cut feed costs C S rhode of the university ot of illinois says 25 pounds of high quality alfalfa bay will furnish all the protein a cow needs to produce SO 30 pounds of 4 per cent milk it will also furnish all the needed calcium and is the best source of carotene and vitamin D during the wirier winter months alfalfa hay will provide both one pound of protein and pounds of total digestible nutrients at lower cost than soybean oil meal oats or corn and cob meal one pound of protein in alfalfa hay costs only eight cents but it costs 11 cents in soybean oil meal 22 cents in oats and 25 cents in corn and cob meal alfalfa will furnish pounds of tor for but it costs in soybean oil meal in oats and in corn and cob meal |