Feeding Dairy Cattle 



Sometime ago, the Cornell University Experiment Sta- 

 tion made quite an extensive study of the feeding of concen- 

 trates on pasture. To briefly summarize the result of their 

 experience we would find about what has been suggested, 

 that during the flush of pasture the extra material obtained, 

 did not pay for the feed, but after the flush was over, that 

 grain feeding paid. 



There is a secondary result from the feeding of grain on 

 pasture. It was found in the Cornell experiments that in 

 the second year the cows that had received grain while on 

 pasture the year before, did better than those that received 

 no grain. The second summer all cows were fed alike, all 

 cows being fed grain on pasture. The previous year one 

 group had received grain and the other no grain. Professor 

 Roberts was certain that the feeding of grain to one group 

 carried over into the next summer. Professor Roberts holds, 

 that the benefit of pasture was an especially marked one in 

 the development of the young stock. This showed up in 

 their greater production, greater size and stretch over those 

 receiving no grain on pasture. 



Professor Eckles, in his book gives the following table 

 for feeding a Holstein cow on pasture : 



25 pounds milk daily 3 pounds grain 



30 pounds milk daily 4 pounds grain 



35 pounds milk daily 5% pounds grain 



40 pounds milk daily 7 pounds grain 



50 pounds milk daily 9 pounds grain 



This, of course, applies only when pastures are abundant. 

 The poorer the pasture the more necessary would be the feed- 

 ing of grain and the amounts would approach the amounts 

 fed in the winter. 



GRAIN MIXTURES FOR YOUNG CATTLE 



We know of no grain mixture for young cattle on pasture 

 which is any better than the following: 

 30 pounds wheat bran 

 30 pounds ground oats 

 30 pounds hominy 

 10 pounds oil meal 



A good mixture without the oats would be : 

 300 pounds wheat bran 

 500 pounds hominy 

 200 pounds oil meal 



X. Succulent Feeds to Supplement Pasture 



IT IS a well known fact among dairymen that cows that 

 once go down in milk do not readily come back again. 

 It does not seem to be enough, however, to feed concen- 

 trates entirely as a supplement, nor is it economical to do so. 



f:tge Forty-two 



