TRIUMPH OAT AS FODDER.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume VI, Issue 4, 15 April 1913, Page 377

TRIUMPH OAT AS FODDER.

T. W. Lonsdale.

It is well known that only with liberal feeding is the • dairy cow stimulated to the best milk-yield within her capacity. So generous is she in the return for time and money spent on her that many dairyfarmers acknowledge they seldom supply their cows with sufficient feed to induce the largest flow of milk possible by alb members of the herd. On the other hand, when fed sparingly or with fodder of faulty character the normal milk-flow is diminished. It is obviously essential that not only from the humane view-point, but as a business proposition, the dairy cow should be provided with an abundant supply of the best milk-producing food.

Many varieties of fodder are grown for the purpose, and in oldestablished dairying countries a mixture of oats and peas has for many years been grown. As there are numerous varieties of oats — more suitable than others for providing a large amount of fodder — is advisable to grow the oat best adapted to the purpose. It is questionable if a better variety than Triumph is known for producing a green fodder, and grown in conjunction with peas it will provide ideal food for dairy stock. This oat is a strong-growing variety, producing a great quantity of flag and strong upright straw. It is therefore adapted for giving the necessary support to the peas, whereas an oat producing fine-straw would be useless. .