Feeding Dairy Cattle 

 With some of the high record cows of the Holstein-Friesian 

 breed. To get the data for the article a letter was sent to 

 the owners or feeders of the highest seven-day record cows 

 and the highest semi-ofificial record cows. The answers to 

 this letter have been very satisfactory, and the writer wishes 

 to thank these men personally who have co-operated in the 

 preparation of this article. 



Young feeders and breeders like to know what the most 

 successful feeders in the breed have used in getting the 

 wonderful records that are now being made. It is a great 

 source of satisfaction that the successful feeders and owners 

 are so ready to tell us just the manner in which it has been 

 accomplished. 



THE FEEDS USED 



First of all it seems best. to list all the feeds used in the 

 feeding of the cows here considered with the number of times 

 each is found among the rations. This will tell us the most 

 popular feeds. 

 Concentrates : 



Ground oats 6 times 



Wlieat bran 6 



Wheat middlings 1 



Gluten feed 4 



Gluten meal 1 



Distillers' dried grains 6 



Cottonseed meal 3 



White Cross feed 1 



Linseed oil meal 3 



Brewers' dried grains 2 



Hominy 3 



Malt sprouts 1 



Ground barley 1 



Dried beet pulp 1 



Molasses 1 



Below are given the roughages used in the six rations 



considered : 

 Roughages: 



Corn silage 5 times 



Alfalfa hay 6 "^ 



Clover hay 1 |' 



Roots 5 "^ 



Green crops 2 " 



Pasture ^ ''^ 



Timothy hay 1 



It is noted that the most important concentrates used for 

 this purpose are ground oats, wheat bran, distillers' grains, 

 gluten feed, oil meal, hominy and cottonseed meal. Alfalfa 

 hay, corn silage and beets are the most important roughages. 

 The rations shown here and given in previous articles should 

 teach convincingly that it is unnecessary to go outside this 

 list for feeds and that nothing is gained by doing so. It is 

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