Feeding Dairy ('attle 



paper the ideal ration is being considered, and the above 

 ration is the best that we know how to put together. 



For those who would not wish to mix so complicated a 

 mixture, the mixture given before will check with the factors 



concerned : 



500 pounds hominy 



500 pounds distillers' dried grains 



500 pounds wheat mixed feed 



300 pounds gluten feed 



200 pounds oil meal 

 If roots are not available it might be well to purchase 

 dried beet pulp and soak up about three or four pounds per 

 cow and feed the grain on this soaked beet pulp in place of 

 sliced roots. 



In case no roots or beet pulp are fed, a little more grain 

 would be advisable. 



EX. Feeding in Summer 



A DAIRYMAN thinks about his cows relatively little in 

 summer. He gets up in the morning, milks them and 

 turns them out, takes the milk to the milk station and 

 ships it and takes what he can get for it, trusting that the 

 Dairymen's League will market his milk for him to the best 

 advantage. He then does his farm work during the da}' 

 and gets the cows up again in the afternoon, milks them and 

 turns them out nights, if he thinks he can find them all right 

 in the morning. If they fall off in milk and get a little thin, 

 he does not think much about it except momentarilv. The 

 hair is smoother and the skin is more mellow, the general 

 physical condition is much better and the owner does not 

 realize that his cow is really going down in ilesh. 



The cow on the other hand, is likely to find the summer 

 season one of little relief to her. She is required to get out 

 and gather her own meals, in many cases does not have 

 proper relief from heat, through good shade, and in any 

 case has to fight the flies. If she is a fall cow, she is not only 

 supposed to produce highly, but she is supposed to grow her 

 calf. All these duties and troubles pull her down. She puts 

 all she can into the pail, because good pasture is a great 

 incentive to high milk production. However, during' July 

 and August, she is likely to slacken up. 



GRAIN MIXTURES FOR COWS IX MILK 



It is the writer's belief that the best outlay of money for 

 feeds is that expended for the grain which is given to cows 

 and young stock while on pasture after the first of July. 

 There is no evidence to support the feeding of much grain 



Pa,j, Forty 



