AUTUMN FEEDING OF COWS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 886, 4 August 1910, Page 8

AUTUMN FEEDING OF COWS

:, .;:'. ; V A .N iELTHAM JDBA';. . i..; ': .. - At the .-'last, meeting .of .the Elttam ■ branch- of the Farmers' TJnion r tHo' proweident (Mr. H."'G. r Sergei) suggested, ask.'iing themanageri of : :rto carry" out*' the;; -following '■ experiment, ■ ifor Ithe autumn feeding cows:— ,'■.■";'.,.,'■.': -; -. Plote, o! half aii acre to be fenced .off ■end various antumn, feeds sown therein. ,'. Two cows to ;be put in one plot,; say for. tarp'-,or ,or, whenever it. is .' Btutable, day for one week, and :■•■' milk to be weighed- and. tested! The fol ■; - lowing' week,'/the ■:cow's to ■be put on «u- ---. .other -plot,land.so on, in rotation. ..-The 'i'r.object,;Mr.-"Sergei,explained, was.pri-, ' ; : maril-y.-to. ascertaiE;;the , Tequires.no iciitting. or handling, theycows, just .boing ;turhed on. ' '.■■'.-.•■'• .; . ■./Hβ; suggested the following varieties-— : Buda , Kale,-Thousand-headed kale, Italian '.rye'(this to-be-fed off before autumn, so ?'.. as noti-tq:'go. to seed);; and, any 'other feed ihe manager -himself 'mighfapprove.v ;, '. ,: It-might be wise, he said, to one week ■ feed:the, : cows: on.maize .to see how that compared as regarded yield with, the kale, .: etc!,' although it must, of course, : bo borne;, in" mind that 1 with; maize extra work .would be entailed;in cutting- and carting-out.: . ;.It'was resolved •to submit the-su'ggefr ; lion to',the'manager at Moumahaki.. ■•■: