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The Bulletin 



THE RECORD TABLES. 



Accompanying the following tables will be found a brief discussion 

 of the individual herds as to the breeding, feeds,' etc. No attempt has 

 been made to discuss the rations used by the fourteen different dairy- 

 men other than to give the feeds from which the rations were composed. 

 In many cases the purchased feeds were bought in small lots, conse- 

 quently the rated price per ton is higher than it would have been had 

 the feeds been purchased in larger quantities. 



In order to show complete records for the herds as a whole, the 

 records for the cows remaining in the herds for a few months and the 

 records of heifers coming into milk after the work was inaugurated are 

 given. In several cases cows were sold to give room for better ones ; 

 this information is shown in the foot notes following the tables. 



TABLE NO. 1 



HERD NO. I 



(1911-'12) 



•5 months record. 



The cows in this herd were grade Jerseys and, as shown by the final 

 profits, were far above the average. The herd was headed by a pure 

 bred sire from a good producing family. 



The cows had access to about ten acres of pasture for five months 

 during the year, the early pasture was rye which had been sown the 

 previous fall; later on in the season native grasses became available 



Cream was sold during the year at 30 cents a pound on the butter-fat 

 basis ; the skimmed milk was fed to the hogs and calves and was valued 

 at 40 sents per hundredweight. 



Below are listed the feeds, together with their prices, which were 

 used during the year : 



Brewer's grain $30.00 per ton 



Cottonseed meal 26.16 per ton 



Corn silage 3.00 per ton 



Corn stover 8.75 per ton 



Wheat bran 32.00 per ton 



Cottonseed 20.00 per ton 



Mixed hay 12.30 per ton 



Pasture, per head 90 per month 



