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Show Dairy Feeding Suggestions Given By Expert Designed to help Utah dairymen dairy-men avoid the slump in milk production during the summer season, Professor George B. Caine, extension dairyman at the Utah Agricultural college, releases a series of suggestions on feeding the dairy herd. Pointing out that milk production produc-tion in Utah is declining rapidly due to lack of feed, Professor Caine urges that dairymen use every precaution to keep up feeding of cows in some manner to maintain production on as high a plane as possible. "It is definitely known that cows whose production is decreased de-creased materially due to lack of feed will not improve production until they have had a rest period per-iod and calve again," explains Professor Caine. For this reason he suggests supplementing the pasture now with any kind of hay available even though it means buying a j few tons of hay during the ' winter. On some farms, labor may be saved by pasturing areas sometimes some-times cut for hay, points out the extension dairyman. This practice prac-tice may decrease the winter supply, but it will save labor used in harvesting it, and if the supply is short, it might be more profitable to purchase a few tons, put it in the barn, and pasture the home field. "Also now is a good time to start giving a few pounds of grain to each cow as a supplementary supple-mentary feed," states Professor Caine. "Any grain mixture is good and can be fed on the basis of one pound of grain to each six pounds of milk produced pro-duced per day. In a few weeks corn will be high enough to cut and use as a pasture supplement, indicates the extension dairyman. He adds that where irrigation is plentiful, corn may be planted after a crop of peas to provide green feed for late September cmd early October. Professor Caine also states that it is not too early to plan a careful culling program on farms short of feed. The first step is to set up a regular milk sheet which can be secured at the extension Service at Logan, then make accurst? wights or piuciuciion and study breeding records of the herd. |