| Show dairy feed bill may be kept at a lower F figure egure feed constitutes about one halt half the cost of milk production so that dairymen find it profitable to economize in the dairy ration so far as possible feeding practices with file herd of jersey cows at the N new lew york state agricultural experiment station at geneva since 1900 show how the feed bill may be kept ut at a low figure without sacrificing high production in the cows alfalfa or clover hay buy and corn silage have been used freely in the stations dairy ration and have decreased materially teri ter ally lally the cost of producing pounds of milk legume hay buy comprises from one half to three fourths the hay bay fed at the station the rest being timothy and orchard grass A simple home bome mixed grain ration has been used at the same time con bran outs oats corn and oil in about equal parts by weight this mixture 1 usually represents IS 13 to 19 per cent of 0 crude protein and durin during the past three years has cost from 31 to 14 11 per ton this Is a saving of about 15 per ton as compared with ready mixed grain feeds of 24 per cent protein content it has been demonstrated that well cured legume hay bay in unlimited amounts together with good corn silage might be used alone or alib farra farm grown grains to maintain a satisfactory atis factory milk flow |
