Show COW CANNOT EAT ENOUGH PASTURE home grown feeds will fill out grain ration by J C NISBET extension dairyman cansas state agricultural college Coll cB knowing the needs of dairy cows and what they eat when on pasture will add to the dollars from the milk bucket green succulent pasture Is naturally high in protein but Is low in total digestible nutrients A cow milking over 20 pounds of milk a day cannot eat enough pasture to provide the necessary carbohydrates to maintain that production grain feeding of this cow on pasture Is absolutely necessary iler her grain ration need not be high hagli la in protein home grown feeds will balance the pasture A mixture of aw am pounds of corn and pounds of ont ants should be fed at the rate of on one pound of grain to every four and one half pounds of milk from the ayrshire jersey and guernsey and one pound of grain to five pounds of milk from the holstein Hol dry pasture contains about one third as much protein as the green succulent grass an understanding of this fact makes the successful dairyman begin to add a high protein feed to his grain ration as soon as pasture starts to dry the grain mix then Is composed of pounds of corn pounds of oats and pounds of cottonseed meal the rate of feeding Is 19 changed to one pound of grain dally daily to every pound of fat produced a week abundance of pasture Is very important to the dairy cow being the hardest worked animal on the farm she does not need i a bare gymnasium for exercise every time she produces five gallons of milk she has used up more energy than a team of 1500 pound horses plowing through an eight hour day i |