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along on her second year, and shows considerable improvement. 

 An average production of 8056.78 pounds of milk and 275.78 

 pounds of butter fat per cow indicates the excellent capacity of 

 the new members of this herd. This return has been obtained 

 from a ration made up very largely of farm grown-foods. In 

 winter the herd received 10 to 12 pounds of clover hay and what 

 corn fodder they would eat, together with an allowance of grain 

 made up of 8 pounds of bran, one-half pound of oil meal, and 4 

 pounds of corn meal, the quantity being varied in accordance 

 with the age and period of lactation of the cows. In summer the 

 herd was maintained upon excellent pasture supplemented in the 

 early part of the season by one pound of ground oats per day. 

 The results obtained by this dairyman may be easily duplicated 

 upon any dairy farm, by the application of a few established prin- 

 ciples to the problems involved. There is not only great finan- 

 cial return, but also great feeling of satisfaction in possessing 

 animals of quality, the offspring of which show unmistakable 

 indications of developing into agents of still higher productive 

 ability. 



Herd No. 4. 



In this herd we find a wider range of production than in 

 the one just discussed. The owner, a patron of a condensory, 

 was never thoroughly convinced that he ought to be a dairyman 

 and consequently never put as much study into his dairy work 

 as he would undoubtedly have done had he felt more keenly the 

 importance of that branch of his farm operations. The fact that 

 his milk, for a larger part of the year was delivered by a hauler, 

 removed all posibility of his adding to his supply of dairy enthus- 

 iasm by coming in daily contact with other dairymen, or the man- 

 ager of the plant. His herd consisted of grade Jerseys, Hol- 

 steins, and Shorthorns, some of which were quite profitable, 

 judging from the butter fat they produced, while others made 

 rather poor records. He has been careful at all times to use 

 either a grade Shorthorn bull or a Hereford so that his calves 

 may be more readily turned for veal, ignoring his excellent op- 



