INSTITUTE, PUSA. FOR 1918-19 



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with good or bad milk records is a testimony to the potency 

 of the English cross as regards milk production. 



A series of calf rearing and feeding experiments have 

 been started, and already show that half the usual quan- 

 tity of milk fed to a calf during 10 months' lactation 

 period, if given to the calf in the first five months only, 

 grows a bigger, better calf at a far less cost. Plate IV 

 shows a bunch of calves all taken clean oft' milk at 

 five months. They are as big and strong as calves of 10 

 months and have been grown on half the quantity of milk 

 fed to 10 months' calves which with milk at its present price 

 is a big saving. 



The usual couple of biennial sales were held in Decem- 

 ber, 1918, and April, 1919. 



Seventy animals in all came under the hammer and real- 

 ized a total of Rs. 11,850, averaging as follows : — 



Average price 



Rs. 



. 215 



Montgomery bulls . 

 Montgomery cows 

 Montgomery bull-calves . 

 Montgomery heifers 

 Ayrshire-Montgomery bull 

 Ayrshire-Montgomery heifers 

 Ayrshire-Montgomery bull-calves 



174 



126 

 117 

 500 

 455 

 14G 



Plate III, figure 2 shows a cross-bred bull sold to 

 Hyderabad State for Rs. 500. These sales have now become 

 an established custom, and the demand for all stock is so 

 keen that I must again warn intending buyers to arrange 

 to arrive in good time for sales. 



At present every young bull I have to sell is being 

 enquired about and Rs. 600 has already been offered in 

 several cases. 



Simultaneous inoculation. In December the whole of 

 the young stock and all bulls — English, Montgomery and 

 half-bred — together with all cows not heavy in calf were 

 inoculated against rinderpest by the serum simultaneous 

 method by Mr. Shilston, 169 animals being done. The 



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