The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-01-19
OPEN MEETING OF
MEDFORD GRANGE
One OF THOSE SANDWICH AND COFFEE
MEETINGS WHICH INTEREST EVERY
One WITH A GOOD STOMACH.

| The Medford Grange will hold an
! open meeting at the Grange Hall, at
Medtord, on Wednesday night, Janu-
arv "a Installation of officers and
talks by M. E. Walsh, Esq, by the
! County Agent and others will be some
of the features of the meeting. The
subjects for discussion will be along
the lines of the seasons needs such
as The Best Time To Sow Glover
and Planning the Farm Garden" The
most interesting part of the entertain
ment to the men, however, will be the
sandwiches and coffee. Come early
and get the egg sandwich. The pub
! lie is invited
Everybody knows that COWS give
most milk when on pasture in early
summer. Maintaining the year round,
as near as possible, the conditions
that exist at that time must be the
thing to do, then, to get the most
milk. These conditions seem to be:
1. An abundance of palatable food.
|2. A balanced ration. 8. Succulent
feed. 4. Moderate temperature. 5.
| Comfortable surroundings.
l. An abundance Of palatable food
| is necessary because an ordinary cow
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! she eats to maintain her body. A cow
giving over 21a gallons of per cent
milk per day uses only from 40 to SO
| per cent. In other words dairy cow
getting an abundance of palatable
! food uses half to maintain her weight
and the other half to produce milk.
Getting three-fourths of all she will
eat Of palatable food she uses half to
produce milk Getting half of the
amount she can consume she gets
just enough to keep her but if she is
good dairy COW she will use some of
| it to produce a little milk and conse-
quently fall off in weight. A dairy
COW should take on some weight be-
! fore calving. After that her weight
should remain practically the same.
While this is true of the real dairy
COW who uses all her food above her
/ body needs for producing milk, it does
not apply strictly to the COW that has
not sufficient dairy capacity to use
all her food above that needed to
maintain her body for milk produc-
ton, and that that she can not use for
milk production is used to produce
fat. This type of cow should be fed
enough to keep her even in weight
and to produce all the milk she can
but not enough to fatten her. A herd
of COWS can not be economically fed
by feeding all the same amount. Each
COW must be studied and fed accord
ing to her needs. When all cows re-
ceive the same grain ration, close OBJ
servation will show that the light
mixers eat less roughness than the
h hic hot a
light producers are getting too much
grain and not eating enough cheap
feeds and that the heavy mixers are
trying to eat enough roughness to
supply the nutrients necessary for
milk production. Cows should have
all the roughness they will eat and in
addition enough grain, corn, bran,
cottonseed or linseed meal, ETC., to
supply the nutrients necessary for the
amount of milk they are producing.
This amount can be calculated by use
of feed analysis and feeding stand
ards. However, the following rules
are a general guide for practical feed
ing:
l. Feed all the roughness the cows
will eat up clean.
2. Feed one pound of grain per
day for each pound of butter fat pro-
duced per week, or one pound of grain
daily for each three pounds of milk
produced daily.
8. Feed all the COWS will take with
out gaining weight.
Rule 2 applies only when good
roughness such as corn silage, clover,
cowpeas, or alfalfa hay is used. If
corn fodder or timothy hay is fed con-
siderably more grain must be given
than the rule specifies. One pound
grain for three pounds milk will not
work on all cases. 1t is too much
grain for a cow giving large quantity
of milk of low fat content, like most