DAILY ALLOWANCE
| Crude Prot. | Carbo. | Fat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| lbs. | lbs. | lbs. | |
| For Maintenance of 1000 lb. cow | 0.7 | 7.0 | 0.1 |
| For each pound of 3% milk | 0.047 | 0.2 | 0.017 |
| For each pound of 3.5% milk | 0.049 | 0.22 | 0.019 |
| For each pound of 4% milk | 0.054 | 0.24 | 0.021 |
To illustrate the table there follows the allowance for a 1000 pound cow producing 25 pounds of 4% milk daily:
| Crude Prot. | Carbo. | Fat | |
|---|---|---|---|
| lbs. | lbs. | lbs. | |
| For Maintenance | 0.70 | 7.0 | 0.10 |
| For 25 pounds of 4% milk | 1.35 | 6.0 | 0.52 |
| Total | 2.05 | 13.0 | 0.62 |
Below are given some balanced rations commonly fed to dairy cows:
| Dry Matter | Digestible Protein | Carbohydrates and fats | Total Digestible Nutrients | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lbs. | lbs. | lbs. | lbs. | lbs. | |
| No. 1 | |||||
| Corn | 10 | 8.95 | .75 | 7.24 | 8.57 |
| Corn Stover | 10 | 8.10 | .21 | 4.31 | 4.61 |
| Alfalfa Hay | 12 | 10.97 | 1.27 | 4.78 | 6.19 |
| No. 2 | |||||
| Corn Silage | 40 | 10.52 | .44 | 6.28 | 7.08 |
| Alfalfa Hay | 10 | 9.14 | 1.06 | 3.99 | 5.16 |
| Wheat Bran | 2 | 1.79 | .25 | .89 | 1.21 |
| Corn Meal | 6 | 5.32 | .41 | 4.35 | 5.08 |
| No. 3 | |||||
| Corn Silage | 35 | 9.20 | .38 | 5.49 | 6.19 |
| Alfalfa Hay | 10 | 9.14 | 1.06 | 3.99 | 5.16 |
| Ground Corn | 5 | 4.43 | .34 | 3.62 | 4.19 |
| Wheat Bran | 5 | 4.49 | .62 | 2.23 | 3.04 |
| Linseed Meal | 1¹⁄₂ | 1.35 | .47 | .61 | 1.13 |
At the Nebraska State Fair in 1920 there was in the Dairy building a large Holstein cow designated as the champion cow of Nebraska for 1919. She is owned by Chris Stryker of Red Cloud. I copied from the records the amount of feed she consumed in a year and the amount of her production. They are as follows:
| Feed | Returns | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lbs. | lbs. | lbs. | |||
| Corn | 1790 | Beets | 9645 | Milk | 26,721.5 |
| Oil Meal | 1352 | Dried beet pulp | 1254 | Butter | 1,066 |
| Barley | 463 | Hay | 4068 | ||
| Bran | 2312 | Silage | 4680 | ||
| Oats | 498 | ||||
| Total | 6452 | 19,647 | |||
It will be noticed that she consumed a little less than 18 pounds of grain per day on an average throughout the year, that the grain consisted of five varieties, and that the rough feed was of a high order, which makes it more expensive than most of us can afford to use as a regular feed. Beets are chemically about equal to corn silage, but in actual results in feeding they are considerably superior. I have not fed dried beet pulp, but I have fed it fresh and it is a very good milk producer. Cows milk down thin on it. If we would increase the figures on the dried beet pulp to what it would be if the pulp were fed fresh, it would bring the beet ration up to at least three times the amount of the silage ration.