Show grind the roughage the maryland experiment ent station has conducted quite an extensive ei test on ground roughage they report that cows fed on ground hay bay produced per cent more milk and per cent more butterfat than they did when fed on hay bay not ground cows refused nearly 30 per cent of the hay and refused only about 11 per cent of the ground bay however i considering the cost of grinding we the hay the profit wils was negligible and not sufficient clent to recommend the practice on the other hand of course there have been some more favorable reports on the grinding of alfalfa the pennsylvania station reports that the nutrients in ground hay are slightly more digestible with the exception of crude fiber the walker gordon farms report rather favorably on their plan which Is to fo draw alfalfa green then to dry it artificially land and grind it immediately it is then stored in baga |