Feeding Dairy Cattle 

 of the care of the new champion must be credited to Mr. 

 Barron, although during the Canadian National Sale where 

 he sold a few head, Mrs. Barron looked after the milking. 

 ]Mr. Wilson, the supervisor, also milked her about a week 

 when Mr. Barron was ill. We mention these facts here as 

 added testimony to the honesty of the record. It was 

 impossible to get a tester at the beginning of her present 

 year's work but she milked up to nearly loo pounds and seven 

 months after calving made a seven-day record of 33.02 pounds 

 of butter and the week preceding our visit which was the 

 fifty-first week of her year she made under strictly official 

 test 28.05 pounds butter and 487.5 pounds milk showing an 

 average test of 4.6 per cent fat. In the thirty days from 

 May 14 to June 12 which figured the thirty days preceding 

 the date of our visit she made 106.03 pounds butter which 

 indicates the evenness of her performance throughout the 

 year. She has not been bred, but comes in heat regularly 

 and appears perfectly normal in everv respect. 



"There is a wonderful object lesson in this story of Tom 

 Barron and Bella Pontiac for it shows how the highest suc- 

 cess with Holsteins can be won without large capital and 

 with modest buildings, by applying intelligent and painstak- 

 ing effort to the care of the right kind of a Holstein cow. 

 The barn in which the new champion spent her year would 

 hardly measure up to the average dairy barn in Canada or 

 the dairy sections of the United States. The man who 

 milked and fed her and looked after her wants also looked 

 after the rest of the herd and did the farm work besides, but 

 let nothing stand in the way of giving Bella Pontiac the best 

 chance he knew how. When it was apparent that there was 

 chance for her to at least break the Canadian record he sold 

 the most of his milking cows including the 36-pound Dora 

 Fayne Posch that was the sensation of the Canadian National 

 Sale last spring, reducing his milking herd to three head. 



"He studied his cow so closely that although she has eaten 

 about 30 pounds of grain a day the greater part of the year 

 she has never been off feed, although coming close to it once 

 or twice, and several radical changes in the composition of 

 her grain rations were necessary. A less close observer 

 would have continued the gluten which she never liked and 

 the cottonseed meal which she tired of, when about nine or 

 ten months along with her record. As a reward for his 

 efiforts, Mr. Barron has made his original investment increase 

 one hundred fold or more ; he has a World's Champion cow 

 over all breeds and for the period most keenly contested for, 



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