Show FEED COWS COW S GRAIN i WHEN ON PASTURE keeps up milk flow for fall production tile the better dairyman knows that it byg pays to feed hla his cows in the summer us sis well as in winter says G IV jr of tle the new york state college of agriculture for the past ten years dairymen in all parts ot 0 new c york state have been feeding their erows better in the summer As an example of results from rec ord keeping and better feeding mr il spoke of a dairyman in oswego cou county t y who give five years ago had bad 10 cows which produced 35 pounds of 0 imick with pounds of butterfat the next nest year 17 cows produced pounds of milk with 2335 pounds butterfat the third year 13 cows produced pounds of milk with 1944 1974 pounds of butterfat and the fourth year 14 cows produced pounds of nils with pounds of butte butterfat i afat during the first summer the cows were fed no grain during june or july and only four pounds a cow a day during august during the fourth iBo summer nimer the cows received an average of four pounds a day and were fed somewhat according to production althou although ai they were still underfed the pounds average for the fourth veat year was wag at least partly due to better summer feeding one dairy herd improvement association member said recently 11 1 I find that it pays to keep the cows in the barn until june 1 then the grass hns has a good at start art and has some substance in it my cows have good pasture for june juie but I 1 ont loce to give them a little grain about four pounds a day soon after july 1 1 I begin to cut green alfalfa for them and also increase the gra grain in this holds up the milk how flow and keeps the cows 1 in co condition for next fall |