The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1917-10-04
Analyses Show High-Priced
Feeds Are Frequently Most
Economical.
ATloNs ARE SUGGESTED
College Makes Out list OF What
Dairymen Have Found to Be
Practical Under Present
Conditions.
BY J. A. WALDRoN,
Extension Agents in Dairyinu. Mich.
igan Agriculture Collcue.

igan Agriculture College,.
HAST Lansing. Mich Recent devel-
Opments in the dairy Industry of the
state have given aairypen reason to
hope that better timos are in store
for them during the coming year.
Something approaching more cquit-
able prices for milk and butterfat
seem To be on tho way and unless the
signs fail it should pay dairymen to
stay In business.
IL will be practicable to feed grain
Or concentrates, though perhaps the
supply of these won't be so literally
dealt out 10 the dairy herd as in times
past. But in purchasing grain and
concentrates ii has too often been the
prnctice among dairymen to Judge
feed not by its food value or nutrient
content but by the price asked for it.
Aanv man won't pay $40 n ton for
mSh-class concentrates when he can
purchase another sort for $40, though
many tests have amply proved that
not InfToducntly the S45 feed may be
really more economical than The $40
kind. IN making purchases this fall,
the dniryman therefore should buy
RA alone on the basis of price, but
0R the basis of nutrient content as
well.
An illustration in point may make
this a little clearer. If n dairynan
has a supply of silage and other
rOughage on hand, and il is n question
Il laying in some protein feed to bal
aRcc the ration would ii be wiser to
purchase whent bran at $40 ton, or
say. cct'onscCd meal (choice) at SOL a
tOn7 Tn" answer is simple. BUY cot
tOnsccd. for at these prices pound
~ diCcstihle crlId" protein costs lG
cents in The bInn and Only 60 cents
ia the cOitnnscrd The cost of protein
in the Cut'onsccd, u will he seen. Is
only about Uur-half as much per pound
as that in tho bran, despite the fact
that rottunSccd costs $lJ moro n ton
In other worlS. the dairyman who
May hC seeking - protein supplement
for hlo IntlOn should inquire how much
protein nc rs getting for his money
md not merely how much feed.
Where The wargIn or profit IN the
dairv hurinoSS ia so slight at times
40 10 bc almost invisible TO the naked
eye. this item Is an important one.
With foods as whole. recent IN
rcstigation has proved that protein
tho mllk-forming nutrient, is chonpcs'
nj present time October. 1910 in cot
tonseed meal. alfalfa hay. oil meal nnf
clover hay. and I'm the case Of the
leady-miXcd feeds II has been nOt"o
that protein and the total nutrient.
are without exception cheaper in the
feeds containing a higher amount NJ
protein and total nutrients. ever
though these feeds cost more per ton
Grain. further. should not b'
thrown away. hut this cannot he avoid
I'd unless cows are fed individually
that is according Ia their milk produ"
tiOn. Men who have made 81 go ~
the dairy business and who have inadI
money despite recent adversities, have
found that pc rule one pound O
grain per day should he fed To n COW
for each two and One-half to fnun
pounds of milk produced per day de
pending upon quality Of milk, or one
pound Of grain per day for each pount
OF buttcrfat. produced per week
Knowing how much to feed the mex
pressing question is. What should W,
feed" To meet this inquiry n list o.
railonS which many of Michigan
best dairyniep have found will secure
results hns been compiled. The!
were PINNED for l.0O0-pOund COW
producing nhout 80 pounds of 3.5 t.
per cent milk. or % pounds Of d..
or . per cent milk.
Flrsi. In tho case of the dairymar
who las alfalfa and corn slage OF
hand for roughnge. any of the follow
ing may be used to balance the ra
ZION: