xii- ILLUSTRATIONS 



33. Weeds Growing from Seed Found in a Mixed "Dairy Feed" 171 



34. Types of Grain Sorghums 173 



35. Diagram Showing Increase in Area Sown to Grain Sorghum in 



Kansas during the Decade 1904-13 174 



36. Section of Corn Kernel 185 



37. Cross-section of Flaxseed Showing the Different Layers of Cells .... 196 



38. The Swelling Test 197 



39. Holstein Skim-milk-Calves ~ 208 



40. Dairy Calves in the Pasture 217 



41. At Meal Time the Calf is Fed Warm, Sweet Milk in a Clean Pail, 



While Securely Fastened in a Comfortable Stanchion 218 



42. Calves in Stanchions in Pasture 219 



43. Dairy Cows of Good Breeding and Well Kept and Cared for Make 



Excellent Returns "at the Pail" 228 



44. Normal Changes in Monthly Yield and Fat Content of Milk from 



Dairy Cows .^. -TFri . 230 



45. Liberal Rations Fed to Cows of Beefy Tendencies Produce a Gain 



in Weight ._ 235 



46. Areas of Circles Representing Average Values of the Products from 



the Best Ten or the Poorest Ten Cows in the Wisconsin Dairy 

 Cow Composition, 1909-1911 236 



47. Spring Milk-Scale Enabling the Farmer to Keep Accurate Milk 



Records of his Cows with but Very Little Extra Effort 237 



48. Babcock Test Apparatus 238 



49. Production and Size are the Factors Determining the Feed Re- 



quirements of Dairy Cows 239 



50. Alfalfa is, as a Rule, Fed in Racks in the Corrals (Feeding Yards) 



to Milch Cows in the Western States 246 



51. The ''Meal Cart" Used for Weighing Concentrates for the Individual 



Cows in the Herd 247 



52. Weighing Rations for the Dairy Herd 248 



53. Lily of Willowmoor, 22269, Ayrshire Record Cow 249 



54. Murne Cowan, 19597, Guernsey Record Cow 249 



55. Countess Prue, 43785, Guernsey Record Cow 250 



56. Duchess Skylark Ormsby, 124514, Holstein Record Cow 250 



57. The Number and Value of Cattle Other than Milch Cows in the 



United States, April 15, 1910 254 



58. Number of Beef Cattle in the Corn Belt States, 1913 254 



59. Increase in Number of Cattle in this Country from 1890 to 1910. . . 255 



60. Tennessee Steers in the Feed Lot 260 



61. The Amount of Grain Required to Produce a Hundred Pounds of 



Gain in Fattening Steers Increases with the Range of the Feed- 

 ing Period from about 730 Pounds to 1000 Pounds 264 



62. Steer Feeding Barns and Feeding Troughs on a California Cattle 



Ranch 267 



63. Beef Cattle Fattened on Corn, Fed in Large, Flat Troughs 268 



