Feeding Dairy Cattle 

 them as closely as possible to the lines intended by nature. 

 In my herd of over 250 head, we have had only two non- 

 breeders in the past five years, and those were not of mv 

 own breeding. I want to say also something that you will 

 perhaps consider even more startling, viz: That all of the 

 daughters of Count, that have made such phenomenal 

 records, more than the daughters of any other sire of any 

 breed, are breeders — there is not a non-breeder among them. 

 We are very proud of this record at rden Farms." This quo- 

 tation shows clearly the kind of Holstein breeding and feed- 

 ing that Mr. Hackney stands for. 

 Segis Pietertje Prospect 



Carnation Stock Farms have made some good records. 

 Probably the best way to end up this statement of the feed- 

 ing of cows for long-time records is to print the statement 

 of Mr. Carl Gockerell, on the care and feeding of Segis 

 Pietertje Prospect. No other has been able to produce as 

 much milk in one year as this cow. Mr. Gockerell's state- 

 ment follows : 



"Those of us who have known Segis Pietertje Prospect 

 for some time cannot help but marvel at her remarkable 

 development during her hard year's work. In every way 

 she is a bigger, better cow, a more efificient machine, and at 

 the end of her year she is in perfect physical condition in 

 every way. We always knew the cow to be a consistent 

 producer, but it took a great deal of careful and persistent 

 study to bring out all that was in her. She was dry a little 

 over two months, preparatory to her test. During that time 

 she was fitted on a ration consisting of equal parts of ground 

 oats, bran, hominy and oil meal and some salt and charcoal. 

 She received a small amount of beet pulp and a few beets. 

 At freshening time she was just in good condition. She 

 freshened nicely and had a slight attack of milk fever the 

 day after freshening, but rallied quickly. She was started 

 on a semi-official test the morning of December 20th. At 

 that time, appreciating the fact that in order to be a good 

 long distance runner, a man must go easy at the start, the 

 cow was fed very conservatively — receiving 17 pounds of 

 grain daily. She came on nicely, and on her ninth day on 

 test milked 118.6 pounds. As the table below shows, her 

 feed was then gradually increased, until the month of March. 

 During that month she produced 3716 pounds of milk in 31 

 days. However, it was noticed that this pace was a little 

 too heavy ; accordingly her feed was decreased. The follow- 

 ing table shows very clearly her feeding schedule. 

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