The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-23
MILK PRODUCERS MEET.
Association Addressed BY Expert On
Subject OF Feeding.


The Rising Sun Milk Producers
Protective Association held a special
meeting on Saturday morning last
for the purpose of transacting inn
portant business, as well as giving
the members of the association, and
all others interested in dairying,
who cared to attend, the opportunity
of hearing Valancy M. Fuller, an
authority on dairying, discuss the
scientific feeding OF dairy cows.
Mr.. Fuller was introduced by
Frank Evans, of Elkton, and ex-
pressed his pleasure at being able to
speak to the farmers Of Rising Sun
on his hobby '-feeding,-
covered an experience Of IS years.
He said in part:
There are, I believe, cows in many
farm herds which are just as good as
many of the champion cattle, famous
for big records. They are known
because they are well fed, the farm
er's cows are not developed because
the best feeding methods are not
practiced.
There are some principles of feed
ing which must be understood. The
main constituents needed for milk
making are protein, carbohydrates
and ash. The COW must have these
things given in her feed, or she can
not make her best yield of milk.
Protein, the most important con
stituent makes blood, tissue, the
casen in the milk and builds up the
calf's body. A 1000 lb. COW needs
Z lbs. protein day to keep up her
body growth, and before she can
make her milk she will use the Z
lbs. for maintenance. After that,
the remaining protein is used for
milk making.
Carbohydrates, including fats, are
used to keep up body heat and fur
nish energy to do her work. She
needs lbs. carbohydrates day for
every 1000 lbs. of her weight.
The third constituent, ash, is to
build the bones, mainly, and give
certain percentage to the milk.
Balancing ration is all impor-
tant (which is simply giving such
proportion of protein to carbohy-
drates, that no feed is wasted-all
is used.
Feed should also give good pro-
portion of dry matter, the roughage
should supply two-thirds of the total
dry matter. in the ration. A cow is
ruminant animal and needs a
great bulk of roughage-hay to fill
up her paunch. Grain will not take
it's -silage will not-hayk is
what the cow needs, in sufficient
quantities.
Let me say to you as practical
men, to pay attention to your rough
age. See that the feed is pleasing
to the taste of the COW, that it is
easily digested, and that you give
variety. Two feeds are better than
one, and three better still
Do not feed cows timothy hay,
it lacks both protein and ash.
Glover, alfalfa have good proper
ton of these nutriments.
Corn and all it's by-products lack
ash,--bran has good deal.
Succulence is an absolute neces-
sity. Corn silage. is the, best form
of sueculence you can give a cow.
If you have no silage you are rob-
bling yourselves. One. pound of
beet pulp takes the place of five
pounds of silage, so if you have no
silage you should feed either pulp or
roots.
You will complain, and with truth,
that you do not get enough for your
milk and you are butting your heads
against stone wall trying to get it;
but you can get more money at your
present prices if you will feed right.
Now another subject. If every
man would dry off his cows two
months before freshing and feed her
while dry, and the first 80
days after they calve, they would
NAO0SO IAO PAOAOStAOA 0AAASCS
beyond belief.
Never increase a cows feed more
than one-half lib. of grain day, she
will do just as well as If she had
und,-probably better.
When cow is carrying a calf
she should be fed better the two
months before she freshens than at
any other time. A COW, il you don't
give her enough feed to grow her
calf and keep up her body, will take
the flesh off her own body--protein
for this purpose andI get thin.
Then when she freshens she has to
have a lot of feed stuffed into her to
make her milk well, and will very
likely get indigestion.
On the other hand, il she is fed