Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1917 — FEED LEGUME HAY TO COWS [ARTICLE]

FEED LEGUME HAY TO COWS

Keep all your good dairy cows. The country needs them and they can be kept at a profit, says the United States department of Agriculture. The present high price of grain has encouraged practical feeders to look for -cheaper feeds. They

have found that legume hay and corn silage can be substituted in part for expensive concentrates. . In cooperation with the extension department of Purdue university the United States Department of Agriculture last year made an investigation of the cost of produc-

ing milk in sixteen dairy herds in Porter county, Indiana. In that study it was found that when other conditions were the same the dairymen who fed the largest quantity of clover, alfalfa, and other legume hays used 38 per cent less grain without lessening the production of their cows. That is. the dairymen who fed legume hay obtained as much milk from 62 pounds of grain as the others obtained from 100 pounds of grain. Such a saving is certainly worth while. Patriotism demands increased production; the high cost of living demands economical production ; both those demands are met when all our good cows are kept, and when their milk flow is maintained at low cost.