20—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, Oct. 5,1974
Dairymen Urged
To Watch Costs
(Continued From Pap 11
money. “There’s just not
much excuse right now for
feeding young calves
anything but sour
colustrum,” he noted. Young
stock should also be provided
with forage from the fjrt Gol through some
computations, Adams ex
can be silge, haylage or plained importance of
gr^ e . n . c r "° p - . the milk to feed price ratio,
«nd how it has
tMnl ch «nged in a relatively short
time “About 18 months ago,
the feed to milk ration left
on the face oi!the' eartii . you {eed a 0 { grain f or
-!i?y they’d every two-and-a-half pounds
of Production. Today,
be doing themselves more shouldn’t be feeding
miitf more than one pound of grain
mcreaM inthepnce ofmdk. t five pounds of
Especially here in this 1 ' r
county. You spend too much
on silos, silage additives, . . . ,
mineral mixes, special feed Adams cautioned against
additives and forage testing switching the feeding
and feed testing programs program too fart, urging the
that are more elaborate than dairymen to make sure their
Penn State’s but don’t give cows got;somei forage, andia
you any more useful in- feed that should be
formation about four Percent higher
“I’m not saying you don’t they’ve been using. He
need any of these things. But also recommended feeding
I amsayingthatthere are all one P° und of gram for every
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kinds of these things
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something, you’d just better
be sure that you do need it,
and that you’re getting it at
the best price available.”
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three pounds of milk in the
first five months of lactation,
then cutting back to one to
six in the latter stages of
production.
“I’m not saying you’ll be
getting as muck milk as
before,” Adams commented,
“because if you do you were,
really messing up before.
But you will decrease your
costs and you will increase
your returns from milk. I
know one farm where
they’ve saved 42-cents a day
on every cow in the herd.”
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