Dairy nutrition WILLOW STREET - Robert Patton, Centre County dairy farmer and former Penn State staff Ford to market Clans TROY, MI - Ford trac tor dealers in North America early next year will begin marketing an ex panded line of self-propelled gram combines. Ford Tractor Operations announced an agreement undd - which Claas of America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Claas OHG of Harsewinkel, West Ger many, will merchandise combines through North SEEUS fIT c fI G i’ROGR ESS DflY s! GRAIN BINS & ACCESSORIES A.S.C.S. Approved Dealers and Grain Bins \ Aeration Fans & Heaters Transport Augers Available - PTO or Motor All Types of Gen. Purpose Augers Capacities from 1350 Bu. to 301,940 Bu. -15’ to 90’ Diam. Many Other Options For Complete Grain Handling, Drying, And Storage! See Your Nearest Dealer For Complete Information... BETTS EQUIPMENT COLUMBIA EQUIP. CO. New Hope, PA Bloomsburg, PA 215-598-7501 717-784-7456 BIG VALLEY SALES DILTS FARM EQUP. & SERVICE INC. RT #2, Marion Center, PA PO Box 548, Reedsville, PA 412-286-9606 717-667-3944 CANYON IMPLEMENTS,INC. RDI, Rt 6 Mansfield, PA 717-724-2731 , nncn CftlllD GUS FARM EQUIP. CLAPPER FARM EQUIP. RT 616 Box 85 Seven Va) | eys PA RDI, Alexandria, PA 717-428-1967 814-669-9015 member, who was never shy about differing with his colleagues, had some in teresting tips on practical American Ford Tractor dealers, Claas, one of Europe’s leading combine manufacturers, previously supplied combines marketed under the Ford name m North America Under the new agreement, Ford tractor dealers will have North American marketing rights to the Claas line Parts distribution will be handled by Ford through i FARMERS EQUIPMENT EXCHANGE, INC. East Petersburg, PA 717-569-8756 tips you may or may not agree with dairy nutrition at the Fourth Annual Fertrell Conference sponsored by The Natural Development Co , Bain- combines North American tractor supply depots. l Two .combine models, the Dommator 96 and Dommator 76, will be offered initially, with others of Claas’s 14 combine models to be made available later. Claas of America earlier announced establishment of offices in Troy and plans for eventual assembly and manufacture of farm im plements in North America bridge, this week Among feeding recom mendations he outlined Tuesday at a conference session at the Willow Valley Motel were. -Don’t ever put urea in your cattle ration -Don’t forget the forage and fiber in the ration The cow is a ruminant; don’t try to turn it into a pig -Determine dry matter and fiber needs by lumping them together into Hay Equivalent Intake Needs for Hay Equivalent Intake amount to 1 5 pounds per 100 pouxjds of cow body weight GRUMELLI FARM SERVICE MAIDENCREEK FARM RD #2, Box 36, Quarryville, PA SUPPLY 717-786-7318 Blandon.PA 215-926-3851 ROBERT G. HAMPTON INC. Route 49, PO Box 109, Shiloh, NJ 609-451-9520 I.G. SALES Silverdale, PA 215-257-5136 LEISER’S INC. 3608 Nazareth Pike Bethlehem PA 215-691 3070 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 16,1980—€ Amounts can be mcreased to 2.5 pounds. -If you’re feeding less than 15 pounds per 100 pounds of we'ght, you’re headed for trouble. -The best tools of a practical nutritionist are a scale and feed test. Weigh the hay and silage exactly. Don’t trust the weight of the hay bale you remember when it was harvested at a higher moisture level And get a lot of samples for testmg -Get your protem for your cows from two different sources He recommends brewers’ mix and soybeans. -Forage sampling is only S&l/s ****** °4ys REED BROTHERS EQUIP. Petticoat Bridge Rd , Columbus, NJ 609-298-3441 ROORKSFARM SUPPLYING. RD3 Hwy No 77, Elmer, NJ 609-358-3100 WENGER’S, INC. S Race St Myerstown, PA 717 866 2138 a guideline at best. It is certainly not the last word in determining the mix of a ration. -Use 180,000 units of Vitamin A per day for a cow producmg 50 pounds of milk. He admits that is high, but claims it is needed for membrane structure and milk secretion. --Likewise keep the calcium down to about 7 percent of dry matter For 39 pounds of dry matter, this would be 2.73 pounds of calcium. -Also, keep the calcium to phosphofus ratio to about 1.5 to 1 or even down to 1 3 to 1. If it must be brought down, just add more phosphorus. -Selenium is not all that some crack it up to be It is not a cure-all. -Sodium bicarbonate, he simply doesn’t like it Agam, you re trying to turn a cow into a pig by using it It’s better to even feed some old mulch hay than the bicarb. For 90 percent of cows, there’s no reason to use it. -Get trace elements for cows by growing them; don’t buy them. And uSe organically-bound trace elements that the cow can better utilize Patton is sold on the ad vantages of the Fertrell Rumi-Cult for dairy cows He feeds a quarter pound a day to cows producing 50 pounds of milk; a half pound for 60 to 75 pounds of milk and three-fourths of a pound a day for over 75-pound producers. -And he doesn’t go along with the practice of using a dry cow ration. A cow can be dry six to eight weeks and it takes three of them for the rumen population to change. He claims dairymen are just defeating themselves with a dry cow ration. Changing feed is a stressful thing and it pays to keep stress down at this tune. The three-day conference was held Monday through Wednesday. 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