Show shortage of food in early pasture impossible for dairy herd to get enough to hold weight strength miry dairy SP by john A at arc extension lit lat north carolina slur college wu service lc it Is false economy to inake cattle depend entirely on pasturage lot for roughage at this season of the year yet many dalry dairymen nien are inclined to do usual shortage shoring e of so on account of tile the rough feeds in the spring the belief seems prevalent that young grass wi will supply a sufficient amount of nourishment for tile the cattle immature grass Is about 90 00 per cent water and it Is physically impossible for cattle to eat enough of it to maintain their and strength and produce a profitable milk flow such practices are also liable to result in the cows eating weeds wild onions and buds in art an efro effort rt to gat a sufficient ration when they do this their milk I 1 Is a unpalatable able and no not t good for drinking or butter makings ma milking kIngi dry roughage roughage provides the bulk b fe feed needed and also much nourishment that Is essential to constant and profitable milk production another factor in heavy grazing of young pastures Is the damage done to the sod by extell extensive Rive tramping and before the soil soh has dried out the re result still will be a greatly curtailed yield later in the year temporary grazing can be provided by such grazing and soiling crops as cereals berenis sown in the fall later baler in the summer when permanent pastures are in good condition the cows ran can gradually be introduced to a more substantial green diet Ilo however wever a grain ration Is needed at all times |