Feeding Dairy Cattle 



"Rose De Kol Wayne Butter Boy is creating quite a 

 name for herself as a yearly producer and is now on test her 

 fourth year as a 5-year-old and looks like she will make 1200 

 pounds of butter. She has been milked and fed four times 

 per day from the time she first freshened as a junior 2-year- 

 old and has had but very little rest between her lactation 

 periods. This cow has had a small amount of grass and 

 soiling crops in lots near the test barn. We always make 

 a practice of letting them out part of the time for exercise, 

 and a little green grass. She has also carried a calf quite a 

 long time with each record she has made, and until this last 

 lactation period she has been very easy to get with calf. 



"Our main yearly ration : three parts ground oats, three 

 parts bran, two parts ground corn and one part oil meal. 

 Rose De Kol has always had more oil meal than the rest of 

 our cows. These rations are changed from time to time 

 somewhat to add variety and a change. Different cows are 

 fed different amounts of the grain. Wt have always for 

 Rose De Kol quite a lot of molasses and while she has never 

 had beets she has always had liberal ration of beet pulp. 

 She has always consumed large quantities of alfalfa hay. 

 During most of the month she has had quite a lot of ensilage. 



"If you will study her production you will see that her 

 2-year-old record is the second highest ever made for age. 

 Her 3-year-old, lo-months' record, is a World's record for 

 butter for age, and her 4-year-old, 10 months' record is also 

 a World's record for butter for age. The total of her three 

 lactation periods for butter and for milk under full age are 

 larger than any other Holstein cow and they are both 

 world's records. The butter record being excelled by a 

 Jersey who was run three full years. 



"We expect to continue her on test as long as she lives, 



and if she is fortunate in keeping up her good work, she 



ought to make a great life-time record." 



Jewel Pontiac Segis, Beauty Girl Pontiac Segis, and 

 Beauty Beets Walker Segis 



These cows were fed the following grain mixture : 

 100 pounds barley 

 100 pounds hominy 

 100 pounds bran 

 100 pounds brewers' grains 

 50 pounds oil meal 

 50 pounds Schumacher feed 

 In a letter giving the above mixture used for feeding these 

 cows, Mr. Hackney writes as follows : 



"I do not allow crowding of feed in any way. They live 

 just as normally as though they were not on test. I keep 



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