"MISSOURI CHIEF JOSEPHINE." 771 



statistics, has been estimated at $500.00, Josephine annually produces 

 more in actual valuation than the earnings of three average men. If 

 the average man, however, were as well cared for as Josephine is, he 

 would unquestionably produce more Uian he does. The same fact is 

 true of the average cow. "Chief Josephine" receives the constant care 

 and attention of experts. The foreman at the dairy farms at the College 

 of Agriculture in the University of Missouri is her chief attendant. He 

 lives on the farm close to where Josephine's stall is located and during 

 the test here noted he is said to have practically slept with one eye upon 

 her. He is qualitied for the work by long experience and has made 

 much reputation for producing dairy cows — perhaps more than any 

 other dairyman in the world. In the management of "Chief Jose- 

 phine," he has economized her strength and force, and in order that she 

 may waste no enegry in digestion, her food is ground into powder and 

 soaked in water before being served to her. Although she consumes 

 daily 132 pounds of this wet feed, besides the alfalfa hay and corn silage, 

 she never gets enough. The feed pan in which she is fed four times 

 every day is exhausted each time. Water is the only thing of which 

 she gets enough. She is allowed to drink water as long and as much as 

 she wants. Her thirst is quenched every day by at least 270 pounds 

 of water, or about 30 gallons. The water she drinks is warmed to a 

 temperature of about 70 degrees, the condition best suited to milk pro- 

 duction. 



It costs about 77c a day to keep Josephine and her daily production 

 is worth over $4.00 at prevailing prices. On being asked if that cost 

 included the manager's labor and the cost of the electric fans in her 

 stall, the reply wa.s "No, that is the cost of her feed alone; but I did not 

 include a $3,000.00 calf in her production either." The calf is worth 

 $3,000.00 now, and will be worth more when its mother completes her 

 year's test. Josephine's value estimated on her six months' record is 

 $20,000.00. When she has completed her year's test with the world's 

 champion record for the full year, as well as for the six months, she 

 will be worth two or three times as much as she is now. 



The box stall in which Josephine is kept is screened and white- 

 washed on all sides. A large electric fan suspended above her from the 

 ceiling keeps the few flies that get in from annoying her. Another 

 smaller fan sits in the corner next to a window furnishing a cooler breeze 

 of fresh air from the outside. She is kept in her stall all day, except 

 when taken out for her shower baths and exercises. At 4 :30 o'clock in 

 the morning she is bnished off and given exercises in the lot. At 5 

 o'clock she receives her breakfa-st of six pounds of pulverized grains, 

 bran, corn-chop, ground oats, gluten, linseed meal and cottonseed meal, 

 with about three ounces of salt mixed with each twelve pounds of beet 



