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quality of milk that a cow will give is determined by 

 breed and individuality, and the amount she will give 

 is determined by her feed. ; ' 



These opinions are based upon actual experiments, or 

 conclusions reached by the experiments of others cov- 

 ering a number of years, hence are of great value to all 

 dairymen. 



The Cornell University experiment station has for 

 the past four years been experimenting on feeding cows 

 grain while on grass pasture, to see if it would pay to 

 feed grain under such conditions. The grain-fed cows 

 in every case gave more milk and more butter, but not 

 enough to justify the expense and extra labor. Now, 

 as to the percentage of butter fat, by looking at the 

 tables showing percentage of fat it was impossible to 

 tell which were the grain-fed cows, showing conclusively 

 that feeding grain had no influence on the quality of 

 the milk. Perhaps it would be well to add that the 

 grain ration consisted of four quarts per cow per day, 

 composed of two parts corn meal, one part wheat bran 

 and one part cotton seed meal by weight ; this was fed 

 to eight Jerseys, while eight others had no grain, all on 

 the same pasture and cared for exactly alike. 



Please do not understand me to say that it does not 

 pay to feed cows well ; high feeding will always pay, 

 and starvation or scrimping of feed is a losing game 

 every time. By a change of feed we may be able to 

 increase the flow 25 or even 50 per cent., and have the 

 milk of the same quality, which will of course increase 

 his profits very materially; but the dairyman that says 

 his milk is richer than his neighbor's, simply because he 

 feeds corn while his neighbor feeds oats and bran, cer- 

 tainly does not know what he is talking about, and he 

 would learn more with a Babcock Milk Test in one 



