ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. B9 



One Day's Ration of One Cow in Each Herd. 



Brown 



Swiss. Holstein. Jersey. Shorthorn 



Feed. lbs. lbs. lbs. lbs. 



Alfalfa Hay 7 . . 18 9 



Cut Alfalfa Hay 15 6 



Corn Silage . . 16 24 



Green Cut Corn 40 15 



Green Cow Peas 35 



Wheat Bran » .. 2 3 4 



Linseed (Oil Meal) .. 2 2 



Ground Oats . . 2.5 2 



Hominy Feed 8 5 2.5 3 



Gluten Feed . . 5 2 



Corn Meal . . 1.5 



Corn Hearts . . 2.5 2 



Cottonseed Meal 1 1 .. 4 



Distillers' Grains . . . . 4 



Union Grains 15 14 



Total 71 87 59 54 



Including grain 25 22 19 21 



Such reports as these are probably a revelation to many a 

 man who has fed and milked cows for years. It is not custo- 

 mary 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 variations 

 in the amount during the 120 days of the test. 



It will be noticed by these figures that two of the herds 

 were fed only three and four kinds of grain per day while the 

 other two were given seven and eight kinds of grain per cow 

 per day. Small quantities of a large number of different kinds 

 of feed seemed to be considered by some of the feeders as best 

 adapted to the productions of milk, while others fed larger 

 amounts of a few kinds. 



