Maize for Dairy Cows

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 November 1911, Page 4

Maize for Dairy Cows

» Dairymen tliroiighout thf world arc paying increased attention to the need tor suitable winter and summer feed at tlie.se particular extreme periods when natural food is •scarcest. Mr W. M. .Singleton, of the Agricultural Department, who is an enthusiastic student of the economics of tlie dairy farm sav.s in tlie course 01-' his latent annual report:. "Hie yields this .season are scarcely up to those anticipated by the owners. The .season lias not been so favourable as its predecessor and cows in many herds liave felt tlie need of a more generous supply of feed. One of the lessons cowttvitmg is bringing home to some of the members is the money value of extra feed, and T know that a 1111miier of co\v.s under test this season wil! be given a hotter opportunity next season, since more members will provide maize or oilier feeds as soiling crops in addition to the ordinary pasture. The value of soil-nig-ci'ops is evidenced by the yields of two ilierd.s pasturing on farms on opposite sides of the .same road. Herd A was fed maizo. in addition to K''<is.s, during the later months; herd 13 was given no supplementarv I teod. From the flush of the season till tlie close tlio average cow in ben! A produced 1421b of butterliit; tlio a.vorabe cow in herd l B produced 881b butter-fat, after the flu.sh. The difference is 541b fat wortli, at Is per lb, £2 14s. For thirty-cow herd this would amount to CSI. The owner of herd: E has boon studying his records, .and declares that ins cows will have .supplementary feed next summer. The average cow of herd l A for the season produced 691b fat more than the average cow of herd B."