96 TiriKTY-PiFTH Annual Report of the 



Q. How many pounds of milk a day do you have ? A. We 

 are not very scientific and I cannot tell you. I know we have a 

 good many of our cows that we have weighed the milk from, 

 and I have weighed some that have given 45 pounds of milk, 

 and in the winter time I know we have some that will give 40 

 pounds to a cow. 



O. What does it test with the Babcock test? A. We have 

 no Babcock test. None of our cows have been tested except one 

 and I have forgotten how much that was. We have frequently 

 taken a cow's milk and saved it for a day or a week and I know 

 several years ago we tried quite a good many of our cows and 

 we made from i-)4 to 2 pounds of butter a day. We have had 

 cows that we sold which afterwards made large records. We 

 sold one cow to Mr. Jack Miller and she made the next June, 

 21^ pounds in one week. We have never credited our cows 

 any such record. 



Q. What did you feed you cow ; how much ensilage when 

 she made that record? A. What record do you mean, — when 

 we made from i^ to 2^ pounds a day? 



Q. Yes. A. I think at that time we had no ensilage, and 

 I do not recollect whether we were feeding them grain at that 

 time or not. Probably corn mixed with a little cotton seed. 

 Now we have no corn, the corn goes into the ensilage and we 

 find it answers the same purpose. 



O. How much meal do you feed with the ensilage? 

 A. From one to two quarts of cotton seed meal to a cow each 

 day. 



O. One or two feeds ? A. One feed. 



O. You feed that on the ensilage? A. No, we feed that 

 separately, we did put it on the ensilage but they rooted it over 

 to get the corn and the cows that we wanted to have the most 

 did not always get their proportion. 



O. How long have you fed cotton seed clear ? A. I stated 

 it had been four or five years. 



O. Never had any trouble with the cow's udder? A. 

 Never, no trouble of any kind, occasionally a cow will get her 

 teats stepped on and some cows get hooked but we never have 

 had any trouble with garget nor any other trouble. 



O. Ever have any milk fever? A. Have not had for 

 years. 



Q. How large a herd have you? A. We have nearly 80 

 in all, calves and heifers. There is one matter I would like to 

 speak of, maybe it will help some one. I think every dairyman 

 who has any cows ought to have a teat lance. In the hands of 

 one who knows how to use it it is one of the best tools a dairy- 

 man can have, I recollect we have disposed of cows in a few 



