Show grain feeding of cows co ws on pasture necessary green succulent pasture Is naturally big high h in protein but Is low in total digestible nutrients A cow milking over twenty pounds of milk a day cannot eat enough pasture to provide the necessary carbohydrates to maintain that production grain feeding of tills this cow on pasture Is absolutely necessary says J C nisbet neshet extension dairyman krusna state agricultural college her grain ration need not be high in protein home grown feeds will balance the pasture A mixture of i pounds of corn and pounds of bats should be fed of at the rate of one houna of grain to every four and one half pounds of milk from the ayrshire jersey and guernsey und and one pound of grain to live five pounds of milk from the holstein dry pasture contains about one third as much protein BS as the green succulent grass gras an understanding of this fact makes the successful dairyman begin began to add a high protein feed to his bis grain ration as soon as pasture starts to dry the grain mix then Is composed of pounds corn pounds oats and pounds of cottonseed meal the rate of feeding Is changed to one pound of grain dally daily to every pound of fat produced a week |