222 MANUAL OF FARM ANIMALS 



Wisconsin — Caklyle's Soiling System as Basis — Continued 

 5 Months — May 15 to October 15 — 10 Cows — 60 Pounds per Cow Daily 



FEEDING FOR HIGH PRODUCTION 



Those who are raising breeding animals are often interested 

 in high records of production. As we have already seen, the 

 major dairy breeders' associations — Holsteins, Jersey, Guern- 

 sey, and Ayrshire — encourage this by establishing registers in 

 which only those animals that make certain records may be 

 recorded. The feeding of a cow in order that she may make 

 an "advanced registry record," as it is often called, is a 

 different problem from that of feeding a cow in a commercial 

 dairy. In this case, all is sacrificed for a high record of pro- 

 duction. The high record serves as an advertisement, and the 

 breeder is enabled to sell his animals at a much higher price 

 than otherwise. 



While the methods of feeding as well as the food used by the 

 different breeders vary widely (in fact no two are the same), 

 yet the general procedure is somewhat as follows : have the cow 

 very fat at calving time. To do this she should be dried off 

 some time before calving and receive extra care and feed. It 

 is true that a very fat cow is more subject at calving time to 

 difficulties, such as milk fever, garget, difficult parturition, and 



