Arizona republican., 1915-12-12
FEEDING FOR
 MILK RETURNS
Recent Issue of Dairy Mag ,azine Tells How Salt River Valley Ranchers Are Taking Advantage of Local Opportunities


 That ideal dairying conditions exist in Salt River valley, and that there is being developed a splendid system of scientific feeding of dairy cattle. is the gist of an article by Harry Welch Of the chamber of commerce. in the cur rent issue of Hoard's Dairyman. Parts of the article, which is illustrated, are as follows:
 The Arizona farmer is now studying how to get the best results from his alfalfa. Conditions in the Salt River Valley, Arizona's principal farming section, are such that it is more prof itabIe to use all feed crops than it is to ship them out Of the valley. This condition has compelled a close study of feeding methods and an examina- ton of the opportunities in dairyinG Already the splendid fields for dairy ingE-have attracted avgTeat many thoughtful farmers.
 The dairymen are among the most prosperous residents of the valley. With the cattle feeders and live stock men they own the most prosperous farms and control the biggest bank ac- counts. They are the men who are not content with the elementary prot it's that go with farming: they are de- termined to get both the primary and secondary profits This is the method necessary to make prosperous farm CTS in the community. There are big profits in the different branches of farming but usually the crops. it makes no difference what kind they are, have to pass through the hands of too many people for all of them to make a living Direct dealing will reduce this cost of marketing a great deal and the farmer takes the first steps in direct dealing when he turns his alfalfa into milk, butter. or beef.
 Cow testing associations are doing work that should have been done long ago. The 'boarder'' COW is being eliminated from the real dairy herds. Experts are ascertaining where there are losses and why. Faulty conditions are then being removed
 Improvement of the dairy conditions in such an ideal spot must be in the selection of stock. methods of feeding, and in caring for the animal and the product, milk.
 Cutting alfaafa and feeding from racks instead of pasturing the cows on the alfalfa fields is now being done extensively.
 Among these selected herds of dairy COWS is the one owned by Henry Re maud and located on his splendid 240- acre farm. a few miles from Phoenix.
 This herd was established thirteen years ago and the stock is Holstein Friesian. Here are cows giving one hundred pounds of milk daily. During q recent test conducted. by MT. w. w Mcconnell, under permission from Superintendent Gardner of the Hol- stein Friesian Association. twelve cows were tested for the Advanced Registry. During the test the COWS ran on an alfalfa pasture and were fed d supplementary ration consisting of bran. ground milo maize, ground oats, and cooked cottonseed meal; ration suggested by Dr. R. H. Will liams, Animal Husbandman of the State Experiment Station at the Uni versitv of Arizona.
 MT. Renaud Is one of the oldest breeders of these noted cattle in the Salt River Yalley his herd may rightly be c1assed with the leading herds in the United States.
 The home and it's environment. the barns and the general equipment, make this an ideal dairy farm. There are carefully planned divisions and subdivisions, a system Of water works with concrete tanks in every field sup plying an abundance of pure water The contents of the two silos, furnish succulence for the herd. The barn is used exclusively for milking sixty cows is modern and every sanitary condition is strictly observed. The cows are milked by a milking machine with entire satisfaction
 During her seVen-day test Mabel DeKol Niko S755O gave 73O pounds of milk that contained 24.2 pounds of fat. She made daily gains during the test. It IS regretted that her test was