FEEDING CONCENTRATES
EXPERIMENTS IN Much has been written in the lately concerning the value of menting the grass food of dairy with concentrates of various kinds. experience of a Dyerville settler in the circumstances, prove writes a Wairarapa correspondent Auckland paper. In the ear.y part of the milking son he commenced to feed some of herd on a concentrate ration of of crushed oats and lib af concentrat-W po* day Of the twenty-six cow** heifers” which he tested, ten of th® cows and five heifers were fed on th<U concentrated food, and four afife-rs anl seven cows on grass. The two groups of cows were picked out of the group average for last Eca»(.n as near y equal as possible. The results were: 1 ‘ fed cows average for permd test*.•• i, 58.75; seven unfed covs, •13.65. aiffoii Lee, 15.10. Five heifer* for same period, 31.61, unfed neifciA £3.70, diffeicncc, 7.91.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 24 (Supplement)
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150FEEDING CONCENTRATES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 24 (Supplement)
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