Feeding Dairy Cattle 



have a cow start right off with a bang. It is probably bettei 

 in most cases to let them take their time and bring them up 

 gradually. 



THE TEST MIXTURE 



The test mixture used for making records at Cornell 



University has been practically the same for several seasons. 



The exact mixture fed Ghsta Ernestine was: 

 100 pounds distillers' dried grains 

 100 pounds wheat bran 

 100 pounds hominy 



50 pounds gluten feed 



50 pounds oil meal 



50 pounds ground oats 

 100 pounds cottonseed meal / 



10 pounds charcoal 

 6 pounds salt 



It is difficult to get the distillers' dried grains nowadays, 

 but in order to keep the ration that was wanted the College 

 of Agriculture purchased two or three years ago several tons 

 of distillers' dried grains before they went off the market and 

 have kept them laid up just for advanced registry feeding. 

 In case one cannot get distillers' dried grains, this mixture 

 would probably be nearly as effective with the addition of 

 twenty-five pounds of bran, fifty pounds of gluten feed and 

 twenty-five pounds of oil meal in place of the one hundred 

 pounds of distillers' dried grains. 



When Ernestine was changed from the light fitting 

 ration to the test ration her feed was cut down a little so that 

 from May 6 to May lo she was receiving daily twelve pounds 

 of the test mixture, six pounds of dried beet pulp, twenty 

 pounds of beets and ten pounds of clover hay. Her hay was 

 changed from alfalfa to clover because the alfalfa hay seemed 

 to be a little too strong for her. On May lo the amount of 

 test ration was increased to twenty pounds per day, the rest 

 of the ration was made up of ten pounds of beet pulp, fifty 

 pounds of beets, ten pounds of silage and ten pounds of 

 alfalfa and clover hay. This has been the mixture fed ever 

 since with the exception that beginning with May 20, sixty 

 pounds per day of green rye was added to the ration. 



To show just how the ration was fed daily, the ration was 

 divided into four parts. Ernestine was milked at 5 and 11, 

 being milked four times a day. She was fed at each milking 

 five pounds of the test ration, two and one-half pounds of 

 dried beet pulp soaked up and twelve and one-half pounds of 

 beets. The beet pulp and the beets were put into a bushel 

 bucket and the grain poured on top. Then at 5 a. m. and 

 5 p. m. she was given five pounds of silage, but she received 

 no silage at the 1 1 o'clock milkings. As her feeder said, this 

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