FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 135 



MOST MILK PER ACRE ON FARM FEEDS ALONE 



Professor W. J. Eraser, University of Illinois 



Mr. President, gentlemen : Now if we may have the 

 lights out and the slides, please, we will run them through 

 as rapidly as possible. 



The thing we talked about yesterday afternoon was 

 feeding cows alfalfa and corn silage, on the Dairy Demon- 

 stration at the University. Here of course the cows were 

 fed the year around, but on farms such feeding should be 

 for only the winter six months and not for the summer. 



We have a much better and cheaper way of feeding 

 cows during the summer six months, and that is run them 

 on sweet clover pasture, and that is what I want to talk 

 about this morning. 



(The lights were turned off and the lecture continued 

 with the use of slides shown on the screen.) 



SWEET CLOVER, THE SIX MONTHS' PASTURE, 

 INCREASES PROFIT 



Professor Wilber J. Fraser, University of Illinois 



A good productive pasture will supply the feed for a 

 dairy herd for practically one-half the year, and so is en- 

 titled to as much consideration as all the other crops com- 

 bined that make up the winter half of the ration. How- 

 ever, the real value of a good pasture; the land and labor 

 it will save, the production it will provide for and stimu- 

 late, and the conditioning effect it has, particularly on milk 

 cows in getting them in shape for the winter's production 

 on barn feeding, is so little realized that on only a few 

 farms does the pasture really play an important part in 

 providing the year's feed for the stock. 



