Show DA aars acrs COWS ON PASTURE NEED GRAIN ALSO cornell comell station advocates liberal ration for herd B E S Il harrison larrison who Is super supervision the protein feeding experiment ut at tile ali cornell comell university agricultural expert ment station says that lint cows coat oil 01 pasture demand liberal lenil li grain feeding lie he assumes that tant if the lie pasture were ideal and ibe lie cow could get find arid en ani I 1 all the gross grass site she wanted she could not produce up to tin in tile nutrients she could digest friml tile the pasture in other words lie says even under ideal conditions condition it f pasture pastur it ls Is necessary to feed grain to heavy producing anlin animals als but on tile the typical dairy farm lie says pastures are nut not ideal particularly in a dry season and a cw cow can gather only a relatively small part of the grass she needs on many of the lie short side libil pastures in new it takes a lot of real on oil file part par of a cow to collect what grass Is there this uses up energy which otherwise could RO go into milk production la in addition hot weather and tile the annoyance of flies add to 0 o the cows troubles and subtract from froin her fier power to matte make milk and tills this means that dairymen should feed grain during the summer at about the same rate rale as in winter summer silage or a silage crop wl 11 ll make up for the loss of succulence in dried pasture or even hay should be added to the ration but the main point air says is to feed grain during burink the short pasture season and it will actually pay more profit than any grain fed at any time of the year not only does it help to maintain tile the milk flow during the summer but it will prevent the loss of flesh by the cows and they will go into the barn in the fill fall able to respond to good feeding and fully capable of giving their host best returns in money to their owners |