Feeding Dairy Cattle 



and he has in addition two beautliful daughters of that 

 World's Champion, one a yearling and the other just past 

 two }ears of age. 



In the story lies most effective ammunition for Holstein 

 extension work, because who of us in the business upon 

 reading the story of Tom Barron and Bella Pontiac will not 

 go on with our work with just a little more zest and give our 

 own good cows just a little better chance to show what they 

 will do?" 



The record of the feeding of Bella Pontiac is particularly 

 interesting because of the unusual amount of high protein 

 feeds that were fed in the first part of the year's work. This 

 goes to show very conclusively that there must be very little 

 in the idea of secret formulae and that after all it is the 

 capacity of the cow that determines the record and that a 

 cow has tremendous capacity for adapting herself to the 

 ration as she may get, provided she gets good care and 

 enough feed from which to manufaceure the milk. 

 Duchess Skylark Ormsby 



Duchess Skylark Ormsby made her great record some 

 time ago but she still stands second in the list, therefore, it is 

 well to say something about her feeding. Mr. John B. Irwin 

 has written fully and carefully on this point and I take 

 pleasure in quoting his letter: 



"Your favor of July nth regarding information concern- 

 ing the grain mixture for Duchess Skylark Ormsby is at hand, 

 and I may state that she was quite remarkable in her food 

 consumption in that she was not affected seriously by change 

 of feed and the different ingredients of her ration were 

 changed in amount quite frequently so as to adapt them to 

 her appetite and the condition of the weather. Possibly if I 

 give you the amount of feed she consumed in three different 

 months it will give you a pretty good line on the feeds we 

 used. For instance she calved early in November. She 

 consumed the following feed in the month of: 



December May September 



lbs. lbs. lbs. 



124 bran 125 bran 120 bran 



124 ground oats 120 ground oats 120 ground oats 



93 continental gluten 100 continental gluten 90 continental gluten 



124 brewers' dried grain 125 brewers' grains 125 brewers' grains 



77 oil meal 90 oil meal 75 oil meal 



75 hominy 45 hominy 60 hominy 



868 silage 900 silage 3000 silage, green 



oats and peas 

 455 alfalfa 475 alfalfa 450 alfalfa 



930 roots 950 roots 1000 roots 



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