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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
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pood Pastures Necessary
A Typical Dairy Bctrn In Haywood County
For Profitable Operation
Of Dairy, Says J. A. ikrey
. There i sucll a c lose relation be
twt'Hi 'ow-cost milk production and
gocct pa;tuie thai no dairyman can
affoid to neglect his pastures. says
3 a. Ares , in charge of dairy ex
tension at Slate College.
: The prevailing shortage and hitjli
'production cost of milk in North
Carolina and other wuthet'i stales
in the )j.i-t lias been due leriielv to
A rhoitae of roughage, of which
good pasture is a erv important
Jure.
..Good pasture not only provides
one ot the cheapest sources of feed
nutrients tor dairy cows, but it is
eiso i yood source of minerals and
V'aa.iiiii'5 which are in a form read
ily assimilated by the cow's body
Suidie-: made by the Bureau of
Da.ij Industry at the Montana Kx
f.;i ntnl Station showed that when
ail eu-is were included, Sood pas
tille piuduced feed nutrients .it a
Jower cost than alfalfa ha.v , corn
&iiate 01 K'atn crops such as oats
ai.d barley. In this study the cost
ft pioiluciiiu lull pounds of digest
ible nutrients from the different
Cicps was lound to be as tollovvs
4J.-ti an e vields in parent tiesis
' Fast in e '250 grazing days . 29
ItU't: allaila hay '4 7 tons. 4ii
tnis. coin silai-'e Ki 7 Ions' 91
ttnis. uiits ;md ulher grain b'ti
tu-lHlt. SI. 19: barley and other
ijiain -41) bushels'. SI. 40.
,, While this study was made in
lont.iija. each ol the crops used
It well adapted to this area and
SUout the s;1Mi. yh lds pel can be
obtained
At the Coastal Plain Kxpcriment
Station at U'illard, during 1047 l.a
tllno (lover pasture provided 20(i
(lay" of grazing which contained .'),
23h pounds of Tl). 'total digestible
nutrients' per acre at a cost ot 58
Cents per 100 pounds. The cost of
TON in corn silage at the same sta
tion and year with a yield ot 14 4
tons per acre containing a 3fl."i
pounds of TDN was $1 .79 per 100
pounds
In a bluerass past tire lerlilia
tiou test made by the Virginia Ae
.rtcultural Experiment Station at
Blackshurg in which lime, phosphorus-
and potash were used, feed
..Tiutrients or TDN were produced at
.$1.7 cents per 100 pounds or at tht
tmt cost as would be obtained in
3 '
alfalfa tiv at $5.17 per ton. corn
silage at SI. 80 per ton and a mixed
dairy grain ration at S7.83 per ton.
The Maine Experiment Station
reports a yield of 5.000 pounds ol
4 per ffM milk per acre from l.a
dino clover pasture on good soil.
Hesults secured in New Jersey
showed that dairymen who had a
good pasture and rouguage pro
gram secured 72 per cent of their
lied requirements from pasture
and roughage and produced 100
pounds of milk at 41) cents less than
other dairy roughage.
The results stcureci from these
expeiimeiits show pasture to be a
L'lied low -cost milk producing feed.
Its value would warrant the seed
ing of pasture on good fertile soil
and giving it proper management I
so that Bond grazing may be ob
tained for the longest possible
period during the year. Arey be
lieves. According to studies made b
the I'. S. Department of Agricul
ture, pasture now supplies- about
one-thud ot the total nutrients
consumed by dairy cows, but at. a
cost ol only one-seventh of , their
total annual feed bill. This con
tribution of pasture to the total
teed supply can and should be ma
terially increasd in the southern
stales where a long grazing period
is possible. An increased acreage of
improved pasture in this area sup
plemented with good pasture man
agement should make it possible in
many sections of the Squill for pas
ture to supply 50 per cent or more
of the total feed nutrients needed
for dairy cows.
While it
Carolina to
portion of the dairy
teed supply from pasture
than is done at present, the
age
Slat
This is a typical modern Hay wood ('iiiinlv dairy
barn accommodates about
is possible in North
secure a much greater
cows' annual
crops
Here
of improved pasture in the
must he inaleriallv increased ,
before that very desirable and i ,ilint'l
protitahlc change can lake place.
While much progress has been i
made in North Carolina during re-I
cent years in developing good pas-j
tun. such as that provided by l.a-I
(lino i lover and orchard grass, I
many of the pastures still in use I
are unproductive, requiring around
three acres to provide sullieient
Egg Production Down
The rate of egg production dur
ing February was 13.1 eggs per
layer, compared with 12.4 in Feb
ruary and the average of 10 9 eggs,
the rate was a new high in all
areas except the West North Cen
tral and Western Stales.
Veterinarian Says New
Method Of Breeding Is
Big Value In Haywood
i
grazing for one cow. Such pastures
i were seeded on poor land Irom
which goim grazing cannot nc on-
until the level ol leinliiv
in the soil has been raised.
Jlaywood has been cited many
times as being the ideal county lor
profitable dairying, in thai there
Is ample pure water supply, cool
nights which nifans lender grass,
and the Mils that are not suliahle
for crops, arc ideal for pastures
for all size herds.
Be A
Wise
Mother . . .
Give Them
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GRADE "A"
RAW MILK
"As Nature Made It."
Ferguson's
Raw
DELIVERIES IN WAYNESVILLE AND HAZELWOOD
PHONE 60-W-l
SOCO ROAD
HI. A. K. HI EGG
eterinanan
'hie of the outstanding steps
taken heie in Haywood County in
recent years for the advancement
ol the 1 1 it of dairy cat He has
been the innovation of artificial in
s( ininal ion.
The most outstanding advantage
il, l ived by the dairyman, especial
ly the dairyman wilh less than 20
co'v.s, and the man with the fam
ily cow is that he is assured the
strvice ol an outstanding hitU vvilh
otti the large expense connected
vviih his ownership. The dairyman
r;.ii hardly all'ord the price neces
sary for the purchase of the calibre
bull from which his cows can be
seived through this artificial in
sc initiation program. It goes with
ou' saying that the owner of the
individual cow is aided immeasur
ably by sucll a program.
This service has been m.rde avail
able to the owners of dairy cattle
in Haywood County by the recent
formation of the Haywood Cooper
ative Breeders Association. John
Carver, a graduate of the North
Carolina State College of Agricul
tine has been appointed official in
seiniiialor lor Haywood County
The foes et the organization are
held at a minimum. Life membcr
shii) into the organization is $2.00
which l'v shall include any num
ber of animals the owner may pos
sess now or in the future. The in
scninalion fee is $5.50 per cow
which fee includes three services if
conception does not occur In the
insemiatinns. Mr. Carver
persons desiring that
be inseminated on one
him at Wa nesville
a in. so that he can
first two
ii'k that
their cow
p: rt-day (
1'.7 before
all
1 1
through
place to
make a continuous trip
out the afternoon from
plac.
The three dairy breeds which are
I now available for insemination are
Giurnsey, .Jersey, and Holstein. In
the future as interest increases
Ayrshire and Brown Swiss cattle
will be added. The bulls used are
all purebred and have been prov
en, which means that they must
comply t a high standard of trans
mitting milk and butterfal produc
tion to their progeny. All bulls
have a high index value. Since
these bulls have all' previously been
used for breeding and a record of
milk and hutterlat production has
State Imports
Fourth Of Milk
Used, Says Report
RAI.KIGH i AP i North Caro
lina imported nearly one-fourth of
its fluid milk supply from other
slates last year.
C. W. Pegram director ol the
dairy division of the Stale Denart-
tncnl of Agriculture said the milk
: cost approximately S5..i()i!.0'!0.
! A report issued by I'egram based
'on information from creameries
and distributors under the milk
audit law showed that wholesale
milk purchases from other states
lolaled 7H.79fl.151 pounds in 194(1
'or 14.01fl.o00 pounds more than
.1047 imports of (:!.) (151 pounds.
The percentage ol out-of-state
purchases to the total fluid milk
supply was 25 5 per cent last year
; compared w ilh 22.8 per cent the
year before.
, Purchases of Grade A milk from
North Carolina producers also in-
creased last year, the report show
ed while the quantity of ungraded
or "manufacturing'' milk, used fr
conversion into other dairy pro
ducts, declined.
Pegram interpreted th;
eating that more and
v aionna nuiK producers "are real
izing the wisdom of improving
their facilities so as to meet the
State's standards for Grade A
been kept on the dams to which
the bull had been sired and a rec
ord has also been kept on the pro
duction produced by his daughters
to these i-ows. Ibis means that a
value can' be placed on the trans
mitting capacity of the bull wti..,
to produce daughters In all
these bulls have raised the
butterfat production of
iheir daughters over the dams to
which they had been brid.
It will not take long under such
a urogram to continuously improve
the value of the dairv breeds in
this county. Always keep in mind
that it costs just as much to keep
a scrub cow as it docs a high pro
ducer. Many owners have already sign
ed up for this service. It is tu,
best way possible that thev can
hope to increase the values of off.
spring over the cows which thev
now already own
indi-
more North
bred
cases
milk and
A Milking Scene In Haywood
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Dairy
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Ni j'g'j Jit '
4-H Club member take an active nBrt in
ih Haywbod: Shown here are Dawd am! tS daWM
in time at thetr dairy in H.SScS. mlk'
New Dairy Barns Homes Being
Built Ini Lower Crabtree
m ( mn ihiiimm m n t n nmn nimi n in in -i 1 I ' I "T "TVZlTZZ.
... n ill v i J
30 cows. 1 1
Lower Crabtree's Community
Development Program continues
forward with two new Grade A
dairy barns ready lor inspection
and plans for others ready for th
contractors.
The new barns are those ol Fred i
Noland and I-owry Fergiunn
Some of tile other citin. .
lave plans drawn up re ,
o have the bulletin;? materia'- im
coi:struelion ready at their (H ,
tlons.
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