HERD RECORDS. 

 G. M. Govvell. 



These statements are published to show the individuality of 

 cows as milk and butter producers, and to add to the limited 

 data, so far accumulated, bearing upon: the ratio of the decrease 

 of milk flow, from the time the cow is fresh until she is dry; the 

 changes of the per cent of fat from month to month; and the 

 milk and fat yields during the months following the act of 

 breeding. 



On January i, 1897, there were fourteen cows in the station 

 herd. Several others were purchased later in the season, but 

 their records are not included here, as they were in the herd 

 but part of the year. 



The animals have been fed as nearly in accordance with their 

 individual requirements as we have been able to determine. 

 All have received about the same quantities of succulent foods — 

 silage, turnips, and pasturage. The hay and grain have been 

 varied in quantity and kind, as different animals seemed to 

 require at different times. In the main, the grain mixture has 

 consisted of about equal parts by weight of wheat bran, corn 

 meal, and gluten meal, fed at all seasons of the year, while the 

 cows were in milk. Small quantities of linseed meal, cotton 

 seed meal and feed flour have been used. When dry, wheat 

 bran has been the only grain feed. The hay was mixed timo- 

 thy, redtop and Alaska clover, grown upon the farm. The 

 silage was of Sanford corn — eighty tons having been cut into 

 the silo from three acres of land, when it was in the early dough 

 condition. It would have been allowed to mature further, but 

 for the fear of frost. The turnips were rutabagas, fed until the 

 last of December, to cows in milk just after milking in the 

 morning, and to the dry cows at noon. During July, August, 

 and September, pasture was supplemented by green hay, green 



