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straw and cobs.
Honeysuckle—graze it, but usually it will take additional feed.
Pellets—easier fed in small quanities than meal; reduces from wind blowing.
Litton said also that where half enough or more hay is available, its lack can be made up by substituting —one pound of grain for 2i to 4 pounds of hay. The minimum roughage needs are 7 pounds of hay per cow or 3 pounds per calf each day, but silage can be used at the rate of 3 pounds of silage equaling 1 pound of hay.
He emphasized that the greater feeding saving of all will come from killing lice, grubs, and internal parasites.
Keith Huston, of VPI’s dairy department, said dairy farmers may need to feed more grain to supplement their home supply of roughages. In some cases it may pay to buy limited amounts of top quality _ legume hay to be doled out to the cows through the winter months to furnish the cows with needed vitamins, minerals and proteins essential —to health and dairy production._ He had these specific suggestions:
Cull the herd to avoid wasting feed. Salvage and preserve all drought-damaged forage to reduce the amounts of forage that must be
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