Feeding Dairy Cattle 



time that the idea that large records are being made with 

 secret formulae should be driven out of the heads of our 

 breeders. It is foolish to think that secret formulae and 

 drugs are necessary to produce these records. Our breed- 

 ers must get to work and learn the arts of breeding and skill- 

 ful feeding and forget all this foolishness about drugs and 

 secret formulae. If you have the cow that is capable of 

 doing it through her inheritance and if you have the skill to 

 feed her and care for her, the above list of feeds is all that is 

 necessary. 



FEEDING FOR SHORT-TIME TESTS 

 We have received replies to our letter from several of the 

 feeders of cows making creditable short time records. From 

 these letters I have selected the statements of feeding of 

 Tietje Queen Kol 2nd, Glen Alex Queen De Kol. Glen Alex 

 Queen De Kol 3rd, and Bess Johanna Ormsby. A state- 

 ment of the feeding of these cows will give us a good idea of 

 the general practices in the feeding of high record cows. 

 Tietje Queen De Kol 2nd 



The best thing to do in connection with this cow is to 

 quote the following from a letter from Mr. A. C. Howe : 



"Tietje Queen De Kol 2nd was born May 11, 1913, and 

 freshened at the age of 2 years six months and twenty-three 

 days making 16.793 pounds butter and 393.8 pounds milk. 

 "At three years, eight months and five days she made 

 31,068 pounds butter and 494.6 pounds milk after giving birth 

 to twin calves, both being as large as the usual calf. At four 

 years, ten months and twenty-six days she did even better 

 making the very creditable showing of 43.29 pounds butter 

 and 639.3 pounds milk. 



"While being fitted she had all the alfalfa hay she wanted 

 and some beet pulp moistened with molasses together with 

 the following fitting ration : 

 200 pounds bran 

 100 pounds cottonseed 

 200 pounds ground oats 

 50 pounds ajax 

 150 pounds hominy 

 100 pounds oil meal 



"While on test this cow had ensilage morning and night 

 and beets at noon and midnight, some alfalfa hay and the 

 following milking ration : 

 50^ pounds ajax 

 20 pounds oil meal 

 50 pounds bran 

 4 pounds salt 

 30 pounds ground oats 

 2 pounds charcoal 

 30 pounds gluten 



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