feeding Dairy Cattle 



Therefore it seems best to depend on soiling crops and a 

 good grain ration. If the cows are turned to pasture at all 

 they should be carefully sprayed and watched so that as little 

 trouble can come from flies as possible. The cows should be 

 petted and pampered more or less and fed all they will 

 possibly eat all the time. Their individual likes and dislikes 

 may be studied to good advantage, and the cows pleased in 

 this way. The secret is in getting them to eat and keep in 

 good health. They cannot make the best use of this food 

 if they must use the energy for other purposes than milk 

 production or are distracted by improper stabling or 

 exposure to bad weather and flies. 



The author happens to have at hand the detailed feed 

 records for May, June, July, and August, of two cows that 

 have made over looo pounds of butterfat in one 3'ear. The 

 feeding of these cows for these summer months must have 

 been good or they never could have made these high records 



The first was fed as follows : 



May, 1914. 17.5 lbs. grain daily of the following mix- 

 ture: 3.8 lbs. bran, 2 lbs. hominy, 3 lbs. ground oats, i lb. 

 each, wheat feed, flaxseed meal, and oil meal; 4.5 lbs. dis- 

 tillers' dried grains, 1.2 lbs. gluten, 14 lbs. roots, 46 lbs. 

 ensilage, 10 lbs. alfalfa hay, pasture one hour. 



June, 1914. 15.5 lbs. grain daily of the following mixture : 

 5 parts bran and corn, distillers' dried grains, 1.5 part hom- 

 iny, 4 parts ground oats, 5 parts cottonseed meal, i part each, 

 Bartlett's sugar malt, Buffalo gluten, flaxseed meal and oil 

 meal; 3 lbs. beet pulp, 41 lbs. ensilage, 10 lbs. green alfalfa, 

 and 1 1 lbs. alfalfa hay. 



July, 1914. 18 lbs. grain daily, same mixture as given in 

 June: 2 lbs. beet pulp, 15 lbs. each, red beets and green 

 alfalfa; 10 lbs. sweet corn, 42 lbs. ensilage,. 11 lbs. alfalfa hav. 



August, 1914. 15.2 lbs. grain daily, 14 lbs. of the follow- 

 ing mixture with 1.2 lbs. oat feed added daily; 4 lbs. bran, 

 2.5 lbs. hominy, 3.5 lbs. ground oats, 3.5 lbs. corn, distillers' 

 dried grains, 2 lbs. Bartlett's sugar malt, 5 lbs. Buffalo 

 gluten, I lb. each, cottonseed meal, and O. P. oil meal; 2 lbs. 

 beet pulp, 20 lbs. beets, 15 lbs. each, sweet corn and alfalfa; 

 36 lbs. ensilage, 9.5 lbs. alfalfa hay. 



Another cow that made 1000 pounds of butterfat in one 

 year was fed as follows : 



May, 1913. 10 lbs. grain daily of the following mixture: 

 250 lbs. bran, 50 lbs. each, hominy, cottonseed meal, and oil 

 meal; 100 lbs. gluten, 3 lbs. beet pulp, 2 lbs. molasses, ha}- 

 with pasture. 



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