MILK-PRODUCING FOOD.
(By. Primrose McConnell.) In connection with the various crops of forage, an abundance of which is now available at the Ruakura Farm of Instruction no feed seems to dominate another in the matter of milk-production. A balanced food has produced no more milk than a onesided one. What seems to he required most is an abundant supply of succulent palatable food. ".Of all plants grown at this station (lucerne excepted) none is m much relished as maize; It has ibee# found that when a full' ration of green maize and peas is given, the cows eat the maize, and reject the peas; while, on the other liand„ horses eat a. pea ration greedily.. It has a.li=o heen found that an addition of 21b. of bran'to the forage ration increases the milk-yield hy ah out a gallon per week. The present. lucerne-paddock being a long wav from the dairy, the feeding of this plant in the green state of dairy stock wa-s not tested, but its value is too well known to need any further proof.
CABLE NEWS
(United Press Association—By. Electric TeltQraph—Copyright.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 March 1913, Page 5
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184MILK-PRODUCING FOOD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 March 1913, Page 5
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