Show FALSE ECONOMY IN RATIONS FOR COWS li it 1 Is common practice among many arany farmers A coo ers who feed dairy ones cows to food feed of at ear corn or R plain mixture coherent of corn and cormeal and ground onto oats th thinking inking that if they teed food enough of it th there am will be no necessity of buying me 10 called expensive expansive protein feeds feed thea the practices are am seldom given much attention until they come came into the range a of cow testing cloth when such men man do become became bemben of some cow testing association fless it I 1 is aft often As difficult to induce them to decrease the tha total amount of grain fed and it ad add a high protein teed feed to their present r ration on says RY R writer to in the so successful achil fanning their argument to Is usually that the feed will cost too a much tre the following illustration ans aged by tile the writer quite recently UY to prove that such each to Is not the ease case A member of at the jefferson Jelte raon county low iowa cow testing association was waa feed S ing nt hla his ell cowa a a ration of too pounds of e urn corn and co cobi loneal oeal and pounds of ground onta oats the arage a rage monthly production of nig his herd was waa pounds of 0 milk and ad 24 pounds pound of butterfat his ration was waa costing him 1 04 per pei IOD p pounds it to 18 cows 1 he be we was feed jug ing 1 7 pounds of grain during the month at a coat cast of 74 88 A suggested ration of ronnda of corn cars and cormeal cob col meal lareal pounds of gr ground it oats is go p pounds of bran pound of carl cottonseed assed meal and 00 pounds of oil ou meal 1 would coat 9 him per IC pound dounda this ration ratio 1 la considerably more mom export expensive ive per pounds pound but at the rate hla his cows cow were producing 1300 pounds of at th the a suggested ug ration would cation he have se b been ear so sufficient to in keep a sai up th tha cowa colv production during that ill month however 8 TOO pounds w were or suggested to now allow joe or putting some of the c cows czi la in a little better condition this amount tit of min grain would cost cast asp ssp r hers here I 1 saving lg of 1449 1 for or tha ina month arenth apart from this seeing saving alio tit fact eb should cold not be overlooked that the sug ang justad ration contains more protein tse consequently an increase in production product ilin ca can case reasonably dimbly be expected tile the aera own ration contains cont alna only about 7 per c cent a tit protein n will which h ts is altogether too attle tile tor large ege and economical prodoc ti alon the suggested ration all will con t tain alp beat about 12 3 per cent protein tile the pasture which these cows cowa were gett getting n 9 was not abundant and a little salary calig roughage hg would old o have hate lot p proved pd d co conditions alual considerably derli bly another member was vas feeding along with fur fair 1 pasture 15 16 pounds of ear car corn to ea co in cs quite recently fresh free at 60 cents per t this ill teed feed would cost coat him 3 87 f fir bac each 1 cow per month far ear corn cars Is nt net en an economical feed at any time because of tile tike quite large percentage that I 1 is not net located digested seven pounds ol at the same ration as aa we was ad in the ten previous coal case would old cost m TI id 63 tor for each cob con cow per wont month b this I 1 would be a saving if 24 mot centa on cm each cow apparently toll this I 1 only a small saving but the higher pro I 1 in content oats I 1 of r the teu ration would no doubt bring about an advance in pro portion which would indirectly be a further saving lug it should od be easy basee to see fee from illustrations that rius what hat appears allies to he be a wring lug jn in refusing to feed high P pro tein C rations thou Is simply imply false economy in man many y cas cases a a less to a pounds pound of at alot rain in be balanced A ced r ration will bring more mom co nandi 1 results than a liberal comandi mount of food feeds deficient in that aawar I 1 abely necessary milk maling making food pro pre tein A it if tile the emidi conditions tion I 1 in that that first laustra title bad been the a same arthe for the entire enair you year a saving w of could cold he hae been effected affected and it it coats is onla adiv about 40 to be a member of a can testing association hm tor far a year |