58 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5-6 EDWARD VII., A. 1906 

 (Reverse) 



Central Experimental Farm. 



Wm. Saunders, Director. J. H. Grisdale, Live Stock and Agriculture. 



MILK RECORDS. 



1. The profitable dairy cow must give over 5,000 pounds of miUv each year. To 

 laiow the value of a cow, her total annual yield of milk must be known. The only 

 way to know this is to keep a record of her daily milk yield. 



2. The form on the other side of this sheet is intended to help progressive dairy 

 tarmers by supplying them with a simple and convenient sheet for the keeping of the 

 milk records of their individual cows, A study of such records will soon indicate 

 which cows should go to the butcher. We would be pleased to receive a summary of 

 your record. If you have no summary forms write us. 



3. Such records are being kept by hundreds of successful dairymen to-day. Many 

 of these men attribute their success to the keeping of such records. Why not give the 

 thing a trial if you are a dairyman? It will increase your miUi product. It will 

 lighten your labour since your interest will be increased in your work, and ' interest 

 lightens labour.' It will show you the unprofitable cow the ' boarder.' You cannot get 

 rid of her too quickly. 



4. For weighing the milk a simple spring balance may be secured for from one 

 to three dollars. If your local dealer cannot supply you, write the undersigned for par- 

 ticulars. A small platform scale is fairly convenient, but we find the spring balance 

 preferable. 



5. Many farmers keep records of the amount of food fed to individual cows. If 

 you would like to do so, sample forms would be sent free on writing J. H. Grisdale, 

 Agriculturist, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ont. 



VALUES OF FOODS FOR MILK PRODUCTION. 



During the year a number of dili'erent bye-products recommended by the manii- 

 facturers who put them on the market as particularly valuable for milk production, 

 Lave been given a trial. 



Those tried this year upon which we think it advisable to report are : ' Spirit 

 Grains,' a bye-product from distilleries; 'Meal Seeds,' small grain and more or less 

 refuse and weed seeds ground together a bye-product from cereal foods factories ; and 

 ' Pea Dust,' another bye-product from cereal foods factories, being the small peas 

 broken parts, &c., of peas not suitable for sale as prepared peas of some description. 



MEAL SEEDS. 



Four Shorthorn cows were taken and a record of their work for 11 days previously 

 is shown. They were fed the same roughage as usual for 17 days longer but in the 

 place of the usual meal ration of bran GOO lbs., oats 300 lbs., and oil meal 300 lbs. at 

 the rate of about 8 lbs. per day, they were given an equal amount of ' Meal Seeds.' 



The cattle did not like the meal seeds quite so well as the regular meal ration. 

 The data given below show the estimation in which this bye-product may be held as 

 a feed for cows in milk. The reader will remember that under even the best con- 

 ditions cows in milk are likely to fall off about 5 per cent in the time occupied by 

 the experiment. 



