Show UNDERFED COWS ARE EXPENSIVE it costs more to underfeed a producing cow than to feed her properly A cow her amount of of milk will return nearly 43 per cent nt of the feed slie she eats in milk the other oilier 52 per cent Is used in maintaining her body A cow that Is underfed will trill keep enough feed to maintain herself anti and let the milk pall buffer for the feed shortage ivan iran alp ilp extension in dairying lit at the ohio state university observes in feeding a cow for maximum production it Is necessary to feed the right quality the various food ele menh as protein carbohydrates find and fat must be fed in correct proportion ohio cows as it a general rule R are re fed enough carbohydrates and fats but very tery often they are underfed in ID the protein ration pittance ilance Fi to the ration Is 1 important for production tor for it must be made according accord iii to natures formula the cow has no part pan in the co compose rop tion of her milk it if she is underfed in any one of the foods the milk pall suffers Mif fera it takes 75 to it ft year to maintain tain a cow that produces pounds of butterfat a year the variation cornea comes in feed prices that are different in the different parts of the state feeds can ile be substituted if costs for certain kinds hinds of commercial concentrates go co too high illek cost a Il hundred undred pounds when the ration was silage timothy hay corn and barley the same game ration excepting that red clover bay was fell fed instead of timothy to the same cow enabled her to produce milk at a hundred pounds pound when alfalfa tiny hay was substituted production costs were cut to a hundred pounds of milk |