x 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 Sorghums 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 232 



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



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

 Cow Competition, 1909-1911 236 



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



in Weight 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. Yeksa Sunbeam, No. 15439, Guernsey 249 



54. Colantha 4th Johanna, No. 48577, Holstein 249 



55. May Rilma, No. 22761, Guernsey 250 



56. Tilly Alcartra, No. 123459, Holstein 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. 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 260 



61. Tennessee Steers in the Feed Lot 263 



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 



