INSTITUTE, PUSA, FOR 1919-20 . 29' 



Total days from first calving of Jill to day prior to 

 last calving, 1,944. Total yield, 50,36'0 lb. Daily average, 

 25-90 lb. Preserr, yield from 21st March, 1918, to 31st 

 October, 1918, is 9,800 lb. and still doing 30 lb. daily 

 (October 1918). Per cent, butter fat, morning 4-44, even- 

 ing 4-46. 



From 1st April, 1920, to 30th July, 1920, Alibi has 

 given 5,228 lb., giving an average daily yield of 43 2 lb. 

 milk and is now giving 38 lb. milk per day. 



It is obvious that cows of this type are enormously 

 valuable. A cow giving 10,000 lb. milk in a year with the 

 retail price of milk at 2 seers to the rupee is worth taking 

 some care of. With reference to the comparative quality 

 of the milk of the cross bred and Montgomery herds the 

 average of a number of bulk samples showed about the 

 same high content of butter fat for the two, viz., 4-6 per 

 cent. 



Much criticism has been evoked on the subject of cross- 

 breeding on the score of susceptibility to disease. This, 

 however, is largely discounted by actual experience at the 

 military dairies where rinderpest has been successfully 

 combated by the method of simultaneous inoculation. 

 Other cattle diseases are not nearly so dangerous. The 

 main line of work in this connection is only at the begin- 

 ning, viz., the selection of a fixed type from among the cross 

 breds. The ideal type of animal would combine disease 

 resistance derived from the female side with the milk yield 

 derived from the Ayrshire stock. To make headway with 

 this work large numbers are essential and the addition of 

 other stations is required. 



IX. Sales. 



A sale of surplus stock was held in March and was well 

 attended. Thirty head realized nearly Rs. 7,000. 



X. Staff. 



The staff of the Agricultural Section, Pusa, though very 

 short-handed, worked with great zeal during the year. 



