Show FEEDING IN A DAIRY error made in giving too much cheap concentrates chief problem Is to furnish a sufficient and at same time not too costly supply of the bet 1 protein foods fly W at KET LEY according to accepted accept cd standards a cow weighing ono one thousand pounds will require about one pound of protein a day in a maintenance ration and one producing from thirty to forty pounds of milk a day will require from one and one fourth to ono one and three fourths pounds additional or a total of from two and one ono fourth to two to and three fourths pounds a day our dally daily business especially la in the east has been devel developed largo ly upon a basis of cheap cheat protein foods and as a result many dairymen have tiao been buying and feeding too many protein concentrates tor for too the purpose of stimulating a large flow low ot milk some dairymen are feeding each cow dally daily from eight to ten pounds of gluten and other highly highl concen grated protein feeds but II 11 Is my Judg judgment mont that they are making a ml rul t take and cannot obtain profitable results in the pall or by added fertility in the manure heap our farm crops clover and timothy hay bay corn and other r aid wid tor for aze with oats barley wheat bran and corn for concentrates and a little of 0 the more wore highly concentrated protein foods form an ideal to promote health and vit vitality allty we may get a little less milk but our cows will breed more regularly and wa we shall have better calves the low percentage of pr protein otI and the high percentage of water in corn ensilage makes it desirable to feed with it an abundance of goud clover hay which makes a better ration than either alone but one that Is far from perfect when feeding ensilage and clover hay a liberal admixture of home grown grain foods should be added to balance the bation with protein we should mak make a constant effort to produce various kinds of forage and fodder crops this brings up tho the question of rotation of crops best suited stilled to the feed 11 A V head hoad of superior dairy cow ing of the dairy caw and I 1 say un hesitatingly that a rotation of corn oats and peas and clover three year rotation will prove the most effie fent in a northern latitude by this rotation it Is possible to get along with a minimum of gram grain foode and that only of the highly concentrated sort worth almost as much for fertilizer ab u for food corn ensilage Is the achl cheapest adest food tor for the dairy cow byry man who has tod fed alry datry cattle knows known that succulence adds value to the cows food and that there ta in no croy cro batall that bat wil wll afford this as cheaply as ensilage from skull oll matured corn the advantage of a crop of mandelt mange or rutabagas Is to not so bucl in chott nutritive value os as in the fact that they furnish succulence when the cows art beine being maintained on dry foods hill root crops are very generally used in england Engla nl and german germany and are held in high esteem as an and cor in this country their us on oil dairy farms Is quite limited |