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are coming to it. A great many of the leading Jersey men 

 believe in it, and the associations, I think, will begin to take 

 the Babcock test as a means of making records. 



A Delegate: — When is the best time for watering; before 

 or after milking? 



Mr. Glover : — I think after milking in the morning and 

 before milking at night. Then give warm water ; water heated 

 to, say, 60 degrees. Water twice a day. 



A Delegate : — Does the size of the animal have anything to 

 do with the feed ration ? 



Air. Glover: — Yes, sir. The larger the cow, the more feed 

 she takes to support her body. 



A Delegate : — I would like to ask what you would add to 

 corn stover, ground corn and oats, to balance the ration, for a 

 dairy cow. 



Mr. Glover : — How much milk is she giving ? 



Delegate : — Oh, I don't know. 



Mr. Glover : — If your cows are averaging a pound of butter 

 fat a day, you should give about four pounds of corn in cob meal, 

 three pounds of bran and one pound of oil meal, and all the 

 roughage they will consume without waste, and you would have 

 just about enough protein to make a ration for a cow weighing" 

 1,000 pounds and giving one pound of butter fat a day. 



A Delegate : — Should the oats be ground, when you put oats 

 in place of bran? 



Air. Glover : — Yes, for a dairy cow : for calves, feed them 

 whole. 



A Delegate : — What kind of a ration would this make : 

 Say silo feed, about 50 pounds, corn meal and hay or corn fodder? 



Air. Glover: — What kind of hay? 



Delegate : — Why, timothy hay, or corn fodder and corn 

 meal. 



