Feeding Dairy Cattle 



little bit of silage was given after the 5 o'clock milking,-, 

 simply to leave a good taste in her mouth. The hay was 

 carefully picked out so as to get first quality and a little bit 

 put into her manger after she had finished her grain and 

 silage, so that she could eat what she wanted between 

 milkings. The green rye was fed in the same way. 



This has given us detail enough — all that is necessary to 

 say is that this sort of handling in feeding gradually increased 

 the production and on May 24 the milk produced reached 

 one hundred pounds a day. The average production for the 

 record week, May 19 to May 26, was a little over ninety-five 

 pounds per day. The fat production was 27.379 pounds 01 

 fat, or 34.224 pounds of butter. During this record week the 

 total amount of grain fed was one hundred and forty pounds 

 and the total amount of milk was 677.3 pounds. It will be 

 noticed that Ernestine was producing 4.8 pounds of milk, 

 testing 4.04 per cent butterfat, for each pound of grain fed. 

 As we have said before, cows are ordinarily fed one pound of 

 grain to three pounds of milk when the milk tests 4 per cent. 

 This shows conclusively the answer to the question, whether 

 it pays to feed cows well when dry. Ernestine was then in 

 that record week using some of the feed that she received 

 when dry. 



This article has been written considerably in detail, 

 because of the opportunity to write out exactly how a world's 

 record cow is fed and handled. 



Finally, we would call attention to this wonderful per- 

 formance as indicating the tremendous value of a purebred 

 sire, and call attention to the fact that after all, the one 

 responsible factor in this whole question is the capacity that 

 Ernestine and cows of her kind have for the utilization of 

 feed above maintenance. We cannot fool with little cows of 

 small production and small capacity in any breed, because 

 too much feed is eaten up in merely running a lot of useless 

 machinery. 



XVI. The Rations Fed Some Famous Cows 



THIS series of articles has been written largely for the 

 young breeder and feeder who is just starting in the 

 business. It is the wish of the writer to be of service 

 to as many as possible on the question of feeding; to bring 

 to many the experience of others on feeding questions. This 

 article then will give, as far as we can, the actual feed mix- 

 tures used, the amount fed, and other things of that nature 



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