Show SUCCULENT FEEDS FOR DAIRY COWS in many states the problem of supplying the dalry herd throughout the summer with adequate quantities ot of succulent feeds at a low cost Is one that puzzles many dairymen this problem is of special significance to the man having a small email farm with a limited acreage of pasture and with a herd too small to afford a silo that cows decline in production and often in condition during tile the summer Is a general observation throughout the chief dairy sections this decline may be attributed to several causes chief of which Is under underfeeding feeding both as to quantity and quality particularly of roughage liage pastures become short and UD unpalatable palatable and frequently nothing has been done to supply the deficiency 11 fici ency caused thereby the different methods available tor for solving this difficulty are 1 larger pastures 2 better cultural methods for pastures 3 more concentrates 4 summer silage and 5 soiling crops the man with a small farm a small herd and a limited acreage of pasture has a very limited choice of these methods if his herd Is too small to make the use of a silo advisable lie may improve what hat pasture lie he has and supplement this w with ith soiling crops some work done by the dairy husbandry section of the iowa station and reported in bulletin snows shows what can be done in reducing the acreage and anc cost of feeding cows throughout the sum meron a pasture supplemented with soiling crops with this method it was possible to carry cows through the summer on 76 acre per cow the data include eight years work daring tills this time an average of 42 cows were pastured on 20 acres supplemented ted by 12 acres of soiling crops the cows were pastured an average of days and received soiling crops along with pasture days the average amount of soiling crops needed per cow was tons the total acreage needed for each cow was 76 acre the seasons cost for soiling crops for each cow coir was the average cost of pasture for each cow was making a total cost for roughage for each cow for days |