Rich County Reaper | 1930-08-22 | Page 2 | Dairy Notes

dairy notes ikka fall born calves are rendy ready to put in the pasture the following spring with low dairy prices only the heifers heffers from best dairy cows cowa should be kept keeping the manure hauled out from now on will greatly arld in holding down the fly population cows need grain and hay as the postures pastures become short it does not lot pay to allow them to lose flesh and drop in production 0 0 cows getting less protein tn in the roughage as wb when enthey they are fed stage plus it a legume hays hay need from 16 to 17 per cent of digestible protein in their grain 0 an excellent fitting ration for the dry ow cow consists of pounds of corn cane or grain of oats pounds of bran and 73 75 pounds P of oil meal 0 0 it if feed Is scarce it Is better to sell a few cows than to short feed the entire herd berd more milk and not lesa legs will result and the profits on the remaining cowa will be increased the amount of protein necessary in a grain mixture for dalry dairy cows depends to a great extent on the kind of hay fed with alfalfa hay we use a grain mixture containing about 18 10 per cent of crude digestible protein