Arizona republican., 1920-03-11
There are many ''Mrs. O'Grady's ''in the dairy herds of the Salt River Vallev-Scientific and
No. 98
economical methods are making for efficiency-Old methods obsolete.

and experts are making tests of various feeds, so as to arrive at the proper ration to get the greatest efficiency. This interest and agita- tion is bound to secure results It shows that the old haphazard methods are going into the discard.
 The demonstration made by Van Pelt with the celebrated cow Mrs O. Grady" who went from a production of 2523 pounds of milk in 1918 to production of 10312 pounds in SIS days of 1919, is only an indication of what can be done with many cows in the val ley if proper methods of feeding and breeding are employed. Let us strive for "A BALE OF COTTON TO THE ACRE WITH DAIRY COWS,' and let those dairy cows be real pro- ducers and not loafers. The following from ''The Dairy Farmer" is we'll worth considera- tlon by the farmer with forage crops.
 An authority on feeds and feeding in an eastern agricultural college asks the question 'Is cottonseed meal at $95 profitable feed?'
 He discusses the question from the stand point of feeding beef cattle and concludes with the assertion "A ration of to 212 pounds of cottonseed meal, IA to IS pounds corn, 25 to 30 pounds corn silage and to pounds of clover or alfalfa hay for each, ,100- pound steer is recommended
 In reading his words the picture of group of we'll fed, fat, sleek, contented steers in a sheltered feed lot presents itself, but is soon expelled by another minds eye picture which presents a herd of coarse, rough sad-eyed dairy COWS, standing in a row of rigid stan chiOnS with bare feed trough in front of them and later the same herd appearing out in the barn lot shivering around tank of ice water.
 This condition does not exist on all dairy farms but on too many dairy farms
 A question far more important than wheth- CT cottonseed meal at SS5 IS profitable feed again presents itself.
 How in the world can men reconcile them selves to feeding 1872 pounds of expensive concentrates a day to a steer when men equally intelligent cannot see their way clear to feed a good dairy COW from F to IT pounds? A good dairy will make much fat per day as a good steer and her fat is now worth from 75 to soc pound while the steers gain is worth only 1212 to 19c per pound
 Here is the answer: A steer will actually lose weight unless he is fed while the dairy COW, even though not we'll fed, will keep right on giving some milk and her owner seems not the care how poor she gets. And yet, the poorly fed COW will lose her owner just as much as the poorly fed steer. The only diff ference is, it is not so readily apparent.
 If it is profitable to feed abundantly of corn at present prices and cOttonseed meal at $85 per ton to good steers, it is doubly profitable to feed good cows the amount and character of feed they should have
 Just feed your you would feed steers, from the standpoint of utilizing their capacity Give them enough food of the right kind make them comfortable care for them regularly and if they are good COWS you need not worry about profit under present-day conditions.
 If you cannot make money by feeding high priced feeds to good dairy COWS, the feeder of beef steers Is surely on the road to bankruptcy unless 1t be that he is better feeder than you are and selects more carefully the animals he would trust with his time and feed.
 Let this department assist you in getting into the dairy business.
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