ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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There were the Guernsey herds, the Jersey herds, the Holstein herds 

 and the Ayrshires. I have divided the feeding into three periods and 

 given you the average. In order to c ut down the figures, I will give you the 

 average of each breed, not what each individual cow has done. So we 

 will take the Guernseys first. They got 25% pounds dry matter, 1-5-4 

 lut. ratio. Grain ration eleven pounds per day. It cost 17.3 cents per day to 

 /eed each one of the cows during the .first period. The second period 

 they got isy 2 pounds dry matter. The Nutra ratio was 1-5-8, a little 

 wider than the first period. The grain feed was 12.3 pounds perl day. and 

 a cost of 14.6 cents per day. The last period they had 23 pounds dry mat- 

 ter. Nutra ratio was 1-5. They were fed narrow. When Prof. Caldwell 

 left the grounds, I think it was the first week, he said to Mr. Murphy, the 

 herdsman, "I want you to feed those cows so they give as much milk with 

 as little cost as you can possibly make it." And those cows did remark- 

 ably well on a narrow ration. Some of the other herdsmen tried to follow 

 his example, and the result was that the Guernseys took the lead at 

 the start, and the other herdsmen thought Murphy had a cinch on a nar- 

 row ration, but they fell down when they tried it, some of them. 



The Jerseys were fed a little over 26 pounds dry matter and same nutra 

 ratio, 1-5-3. Narrow, as you see. The grain ration was considerable 

 more than the Guernseys. It cost to feed them 17.4 cents a day. They 

 used 14 pounds of grain. The second period they fed 21 pounds dry mat- 

 ter a day. The nutra ration was 1-4, which is very narrow. The Jersey 

 herdsmen said if the Guernseys coiiid get better results by feeding a nar- 

 row ration, they were going to make it narrow too, and he did, and con- 

 sequently could not keep up his cows. They did not keep up in the test 

 nor in milk. So they changed again and the next week their cows would 

 be up again. He seemed to have no hold on them. Two-thirds of the 

 time the first four months those cows were up and down and every way; 

 did not seem to know what to do with them. The last period was when 

 the Jerseys did their best. We could depend on them to do right from 

 week to week. He was feeding those cows a wide ration. He got an idea 



