Show modem cow needs more than pasture feeding pasture alone was satisfactory for cows in the early days when even the best of cows yielded only an amount of milk which would now be too low tor for profit but the present day animal has been developed to have a capacity for producing milk so great that any ordinary pasture cannot furnish her enough feed for both milk production and for the maintenance of her body say prof F B morrison head of the animal husbandry department at the new york state college of agriculture referring to the present surplus of milk professor morrison says the yay way to reduce the surplus economically and efficiently Is to cull out and sell to the butcher the low producers which even under normal conditions do not pay for their keep it if every dairyman who has low producers in his bis herd berd would dispose of just one cow the poorest one in his barn the dairy surplus problem would be solved almost overnight he says all investigations on the cost of milk production show that high pro cows produce milk and butterfat more cheaply than those of moderate or low production high production can never le be secured except when good cows are well fed |