318 CLEAN MILK 



ONE DAYS RATION OF ONE COW IN EACH HERD AT ST. LOUIS FAIR, I9O5. 



Brown 

 Feed in Pounds. Swiss. 



Alfalfa hay 7 



Cut alfalfa hay — 



Corn silage — 



Green cut corn 40 



Green cow peas — 



Wheat bran — 



Linseed (oil meal) — 



Ground oats — 



Hominy feed 8 



Gluten feed — 



Corn meal — 



Corn hearts — 



Cottonseed meal 1 



Distiller's grains — 



Union grains 15 



Total 71 



Including grain 24 



Such records as these are probably a revelation to many a man 

 who has fed and milked cows for years. It is not customary to give 

 more than five to ten pounds of grain per day to cows on the home 

 farms, and the majority of them probably get less than five pounds. 

 A capacity for assimilating large rations is necessary for producing 

 large quantities of milk and butter, and most of these World's Fair 

 cows were fed to their limit of endurance. A daily feeding per cow 

 of near twenty pounds of grain, together with thirty to sixty pounds 

 of green feed, was not uncommon, although there were some varia- 

 tions in the total amount during the 120 days of the test. 



Dehorning Calves 



It is now generally recognized that all milch cows should be 

 dehorned, to prevent injury to themselves (in tearing off a horn, etc.) 

 to other animals, to stables and to persons. As the operation of 

 removing the horns from grown animals is unpleasant, and detri- 

 mental for the time to the patient, the following simple method 



