Show sudan grass excellent emergency cow pasture that sudan grass should make an excellent emergency pasture tor for dairy cows Is the principal conclusion indicated thus far by a five year experiment on the carrying capacities of three pasture crops at the south dakota state college experiment station according to a statement recently by thomas at olson head of the dairy department the investigation now in its third year la Is also attempting to solve the cause of bloat when cows are pastured on alfalfa and sweet clover the two other pasture crops included in the experiment A striking result of pasturing sudan grass came recently when seven cows that had been fed on a rich test ration for several weeks were turned into the sudan pasture and immell abely increased their production professor olson pointed out the test ration on which the cows had been fed consisted of a mixture of several different grains plus beet pulp silage and alfalfa the only supplement to the grass now making maing up their ration Is at 11 combination feed consisting of no 50 per cent each of oats and corn hy by weight and fed according to the individual production of each animal the jerseys and the gett gettler gettan ln one pound of the mixture to six pounds of milk produced an and the holsteins and one pound to seven pounds of milk |