152 THE DAIKYilAX'S MANUAL. 



PEODUCT OF BUTTER — Continued, 



THIRD CALVING 



r May, 16 days.. 32 2.00 



a . , ! June- 51 .66 



Same feed j j^j 53^^ 173 



[August 61 2.00 



f September ...483/4 1-60 



2 lbs. bran and 3 lbs. yellow J October. 401,4 1.30 



meal...- 1 November 42 1.40 



[.December ....40 1.30 

 1883. 



5 lbs. buckwheat bran | '^^^^Zi.-.wfz f^ 



r March 23 .76 



2 lbs. bran and 3 lbs. fine yellow J April 381/4 1.23 



com meal 1 May .41 1.33 



[June- .34 1.01 ■ 



The same feeding was continued until December 6tli, 

 when the cow was dried off, giving in the twenty months 

 from her last coming-in, 675y2 pounds of butter. 



A few points in the above should be specially noticed. 

 Every time cotton-seed meal was used the butter in- 

 creased in quantity, but Avhat was gained in this way 

 was nearly all lost by the attack of garget, brought on by 

 this feed. This result has been so frequent with other 

 cows that the use of cotton-seed meal has been abandoned, 

 excepting in quantities of not over one pound at one 

 feed, and never without bran in the mixture. The 

 great falling off when buckwheat bran was used is also 

 worth noting. The mixture of two pounds bran and 

 three pounds of fine yellow corn meal, bolted, in every 

 case turned out the best and cheapest feed, and made 

 the finest quality of butter. It has since then been a 

 standard feed, and there is no desire to change it. The 

 bran used is the fine bran made at the country mill, and 

 has some coarse middlings with it, and weighs eighty 

 pounds to the two-bushel sack. 



The forcing of cows to a large yield by excessive feed- 

 ing is a very unprofitable business. Garget is almost 

 sure to come on, and this not only loses milk and butter, 

 "out it wastes time and gives a great deal of trouble and 



