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PASTURES FOR DAIRY COWS By Talt Butler fThls is No. 24 of a serif of 52 ariteles on "How to Succeed WJth Hogs and Cattle." The twenty-flfth, "Silage and Soiling Crops for Dairy Cattle' will appear next week. " I intensive (Production THE thresherman to make money these days must crowd every working hour with pro duction of the most intensive kind: if his machine lags or breaks down he is a loser. When the drive is on, his machine must work easily and work profitably. Adverse conditions must not slow fcis output to the losing point. TLtarlncr machinerv that is over- work5 is liable to trouble. A mechanical part that can do the same work without power or mo tion is not. That is why the "Man Behind the Gun," exclusively used in the Red River Special Separator, gets results. It re quires no adjustment and yet accomplishes more clean separa tion than other machines can get from end to end. Save the Farmers9 Thresh Bill TnvAnttvAta the Junior Red River Spe cial,, the thresher for small power and borne work, write tor circulars. Nichols & Shepard Co. In Continuant BnslnM Sine IMS Builders exclusively of Red River Spe cial Threshers. Wind Stackers, Feeders, Steatn and Oil-Gas Traction Engines Dattle Creek Michigan n i New models cave you every way. Here's the best value in a silo filler ever offered you. We say this from 47 years farm machinery manufacturing. We know that the new Appleton, with its important neweaure,will prove the biggest labor saving, time-saving and money-savins machine you ever bought. Built on the same quality basis as all the Appletons the same tremendously strong, everlasting frame and trouble proof construction: big capacity and light running qualities that make the Appleton always outdo and outlast other silo fillers. Sizes lor 6 n.p. and up. Don't wait untu you are ready to order. Write today for Two Free Books One on silos and silagecrops. The other our catalog show ing machines in color and describing (he new features. THE cost, of feed is the largest many have observed, that cows fed item of expense in . dairy, produc-- grain .while - on 'pasture 'are - likely- to tion; hence any reduction in the do better when they go on winter cost of feed, which does not lower the feed than those which received no grain during the summer; but this is probably due to the fat or other mate rials stored up in their bodies, and it is doubtful if it is economical to feed cows grain in the summer which they cannot pay for at that time by in creased production, in order to in crease" their production the following winter. efficiency of the cow, tends to in crease profits. Everyone is familiar with the fact that the dairy cow produces more largely and economically in the late spring and early summer when the pastures .are best, the temperatures (moderate and the cows living in the open, under the imost 'comfortable conditions. If these be facts then it Is plain that the task of the dairyman is to maintain these conditionssuccu lent feed in abundance, a balanced ra The pasture should be looked upon as the most economical means of feeding dairy cows, and consequently the larger the part of the required feed tion7 and the comfort of the cowsto for the best productionjwhich the cows the highest degree whicfc intelligent can secure from the pastures the "management can secure. more economical the production. But ci. fpp,i tnav h iinnliPfl the pasture should be looked upon dairv cows in three wavs : Bv oastur- iust as the silo, the hay mow or the age, soiling and silage. Soiling crops and silage will be discussed in an other article in this , series, and this article will deal with pastures only. grain bin is looked upon.. It cannot furnish feed unless it is there in abundance. An empty silo or feed bin cannot furnish feed for cows, neither can a bare pasture or one gfown up Why Pastures Afford the Ideal Means in weeds and brush. A good soil, fer- of Feeding Dairy Cows tihzation, cultivation (keeping down it-- I- Jl 1- J ! PASTURES have several advantages U1C;CCQ Ma pre 1 nTu:u hm methnA ventl0n of washing, etc., when applied p. t . to the pasture will produce more feed ui it.uiii uaixjr tunoi xiioi, wiivit lands are not extremely high-priced, pastures furnish the cheapest feed for cows. Second, the feed is in the best condition for large and economical production. Third, the labor and care of the stables and cows are less. and usually at less cost than when applied to the usual forage crops to be harvested or stored for feeding the cows during the winter. It has al ways appeared strange to the writer that dairymen give so little time to the making and maintaining of good In the South, where lano is abund- pastures when they willingly give so ant and comparatively cheap, good' much time and their best soils up to pasture offer the dairyman his best the making of silage and hay crops, opportunity for increasing his pro- which, while good and necessary, are duction and reducing its cost. But not better nor more necessary for r .i ' 1 1 - 'j i . . oouinern pastures, as a general ruie, are not good, because too little atten tion has been given to the making of good pastures and caring for them in a way to maintain them at their best. Rich soils, a large rainfall and a long economical dairy production good pastures. than Silos to Supplement Pastures BUT the best of pastures and pasture IsMKMlU Writ for Ore test mo (C fee tMTfftin book rr printed. Brown fetae U mad of Hrr DOUBLE GALVAN- IZKD Wil. RMlt nilt iMIMMt. Alaa Gtn4 "Brb Wire. Uw Factory rriCM. Fnlght frMl4. Writ for free fence book and aampl to test.' THE BROWN FENCE WIRE CO. P CI . 1 . Ctovctondj Obl Who Fills Four Silo? growing season are the foundation on :throughout th'e grazing season, for which good pastures are built. With- some years at some times, the pas out these a large use of. pasturage in tures will become short or dry and economical dairy production is impos- furnish-too little feed. In the South, sible. The South has the abundant this will not often occur if the pas rainfall and long growing seasons, but tures are on good land and are pro unfortunately our soil is not generally perly handled. If washing be pre nch, and most of that used for graz- vented the- weeds and brush kept ing is quite poor. . down and t0Q many animals be not "With good pastures only, the best grazed for the acreage, it will be se4- cows will pay for extra feed or con- dom that tlie pastures will not furnish centrates. Authorities often state that an abundance of roughage, and dur a Jersey cow giving less than 20 ing most of the season they would pounds of milk or a Holstein giving furnish practically all the feed the av- less than 25 pounds will not usually pay erage Southern dairy cow can use for any grain feed when on good pas- economically. But only very . good ture,but these authorities have in mind pastures will , do this, and good pas something entirely different from the tures can only be had on rich land average pasture, especially from the with good management, average Southern pasture, when they - Al ..." speak of "good pastures." But if this . Howeyer f or ' those periods when be true that a good pasture will furn- Pastues .ae fr any 'cason un ish such cows all the feed they can able.t. furmsh he necessary, economically consume it must be ap f ovls,0,n must be de for a supply parent to all that a good pasture is of : oudgc or soiling great importance in the economical ?rPS mufst supplement the pastures, feeding of dairy cows. On the aver- because feed in succulent form must age Southern pasture practically all T vvu. a"u 11 ine pastures ao not dairy cows in rnjilfeill require some Meal Rceuttlng M atUohmenl 1 JLM tjie interesting n3 M city 600 to"0 hogs, sheen, mu . I?. fit nr.- Kpttw l.ade WlS make t ntn m. ill.11 nation feeda . bmallev Silo Filler 4 lor Dixie fumtri h . 2 jirni. unequal ltd cioititvf toil o4 6lo8h.p. eniine making and silo filllni. Wn. corn down onto th. flwini JH Forc - feed Crip Hk, iff? 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In other words, a teef steer may travel over a larger area in order to Worica la ny kindof wa w a - nBiiiniHia iiiauuiio'" n't PUU iUSe OCUtX CUWWB. HMV"vy Gentlemen :-I used the i Corn : ton ter for cutting corn for silage aafl IJJ man and norseow w wui. . - w men last year.nuu uu . "t-i will Dleased with it lours trn. bor-eavinu machine; nteo tcBtimowaa m -LOVB MANUFACTUR1NO gOMPjjS Dept. 6 -jj get his feed than a dairy cow can to, tVl Keel nttrnnnnn Tl A ' . it 1 . , i 4- . aurauuKc. j. nc uiisiure must ti it tieinlhf lief tVit.vVn... Vi a , . ... i4.ji, Vk ,-..., .Vw.iu6.uut uv gid.- be good enough so that the dairy cow ing season. : In periods ; of dry weather can gathr whatf d she . J w and especially during the late summer spend co,sidei:able of her t?mQ and fall the pastures frequently fail shade chewing her cud. to furnish near all the feed desired, consequently it is not good practice In short, while pastures furnish the to depend entirely on the pastures to cheapest and best feed for dairy cows feed the cows during the grazing sea- they must be good pastures, and by son. It is equally as bad or worse good is meant something much bettef practice to fail to feed the cows grain than is usually understood from that when they are not getting sufficient term. On nothing more than on the feed on the pastures as to feed more making of better pastures does the grain than they-can use economically future success of the dairy industry in when on good pastures. It is true, as the South depend. .. imago iaanTnTnTn wire, w. feaee. at mmm prlcji. sal Mkailaakkaa Iral "Hnni J. 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The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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June 15, 1918, edition 1
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