16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 20, 1965 Nutritionist Gives Area Dairymen Some Livestock Feeding Advice by Everett Newswangcr, staff reporter An expert on dairv cattle feeding told a gioup of Lancas tei County Dairy fanners this veek, “Since coin is a natuial silage crop and is easily pie seived, the routine use of a chemical preseivative is not jecommended for corn silage." Di. Richard Adams, Exten sion Nutritionist, Pennsylvania State Umveisity, speaking to a disappointingly small num ber of dairymen gathered at the Solanco High School, Quar lyville, Wednesday evening, for the Daily Clinic sponsored by the Lancaster County Exten sion Seivice, said, “The excep tions to this are ground lime stone for livestock other than dairy cattle and possibly sodi um metabisulfite when prob lems with silo gas may be expected. “The use of urea as an addi tive for silage is not being encouraged,” Dr Adams stated VITAMINS Adams suggests that suffi cient vitamin concentrates be included in the lation to pio vide 30,000 units of supple mental vitamin A and 60,000 units of supplemental vitamin D per head daily Supplementa tion with fat-soluble vitamins should be considered especial- wmws cHoffman C/ FARM SEEDS M.FM.FA • CLOVER • PASTURE OATS ♦ FUNK'S G HYBRIDS ly in herds fed limited forage intions (around 1.5 pounds of hay - equivalent per 100 lbs. of body weight), those using year-i ound stored feeding, and those feeding little or no hay with corn or other annual silages. MINERALS For insurance purposes, sup plementary minerals should be provided to all dairy cattle both in the grain mixture and on a free-choice basis. “A phosphoius deficiency or calci um-phosphorus imbalance is the most commonly found min eral problem,” he said. All animals need a source of salt. Adams suggested the use of a trace mineral salt unless appreciable amounts of a com mercial protein concentrate or a commercial mineral mixture 1 year ago Hornco introduced cycle laying feeds Today... More Poultrymen Are Hornco Cycle Laying Borneo Feeds First with ne w feeds and services to seote! business farmers. FEEDS D. E. Horn & Co., Inc. York, p a . Ph. 854-786? containing trace minerals Is used. “Both research and farm ex perience have demonstrated that satisfactory results can be obtained when urea is pro perly used as a protein substi tute for dairy cattle,” Adams said. He gave six recommenda tions for its use: 1) Use at least two to lour weeks to gradually convert cows from a non-urea to a urea-contain ing ration; 2) Limit urea to 1 0%-2.0% of the grain mixture as fed to dairy cows for paya bility reasons; 3) Do not use urea in mixtures containing raw soybeans or inadequately heat-treated soybean 'products; 4) Make certain that urea containing mixtures as fed are adequately balanced; 5) Use good mixing methods to insure against intake of toxic levels; and 6) Consider removing urea from the ration of sick cows with impaired rumen function, Then Ever Before The results have been tremendous constantly our customers ore reporting to us the excellent results of their flocks being fed on the Hornco Cycle Laying Feed Program. Their results show: I. Better feed conversions 2. Lower feed costs per doz. 3. Higher peak production 4. Larger egg size 5. Ideal body weight and condition --T .if - Hornco Cycle Laying Feeds “Different Feeds- For . Different Periods of the Laying Cycle." UREA particularly It nitrate poison- held for da i^nl7Cuortlh ihg may be involved. «rn part of the counlK Thun* . A similar clinic under the day evening atrthe' Unfaeiix direction of Dr. Adams was Twp. Jr. High Behoof, tfSvsville. • • v - iv Why not ask your neighbor about his results with Borneo Feeds? £ IfYou&tft Afford To Corbet yotrfßomvr. MARTIIs barn-dK (MkMnMEI New &ollw£ 354%C3 Gap«a-414» ‘PT Terre Hill 445-345fr| i v Usin Feeds r-K V-.J* it: ■Z.V -V iggasraffit n . . «** tT ■ ’5&T# |«ji "M >.■*'£ - '“MI ~YK (&«■"' \ ' »
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