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The Readers’ Service is prepared to 
advise parents in regard to schools 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
DrEcEMBER, 1908 
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Specially prepared for the nursery. 
Real and Fancied Yields 
Wy cows are on pasture little heed 
is given to the comparative pro- 
ductive capacity of the individuals, but in 
winter, with most grains hovering around 
the thirty-dollar-a-ton mark, the average 
farmer begins to notice which cows are 
using their expensive diet to the best ad- 
vantage and commences to cut down 
the allowance of such as do not make ade- 
quate returns at the pail. Too often, in 
the interests of a false economy, the cutting 
down is too severe and winter dairying is 
classed as a poor policy, when the oppo- 
site conclusion might have been easily 
reached. 
Simple observation of the milk yield is 
very generally taken as the sole guide in 
feeding, whereas the very least that should 
determine this is a daily weighing of the 
milk in connection with at least three fair 
butterfat tests each month. The truth 
of this has just been forcibly impressed 
on me. 
I faithfully recorded milk weights and 
weekly milk tests on the entire dairy through- 
out last fall when the cows were all in 
advanced periods of lactation, without 
gaining sufficient knowledge to be able 
to dispose of the poorer cows with any cer- 
tainty. I was about to discontinue when 
two cows freshened and their record was 
continued. These two were both pur- 
chased last summer from the same person 
and at the same price. One was a thorough- 
bred Jersey which the former owner was 
very anxious to be rid of, as he was an out 
and out Shorthorn admirer, even for dairy 
purposes. The other was a pure bred 
Shorthorn of milking strain, considered 
an exceptional animal. I wanted Jerseys 
only, but took the latter because I was de- 
termined to do winter dairying. 
By cautiously increasing the grain ration I 
found I could get a daily yield of from thirty 
to thirty-five pounds of milk from each. 
Estimating the weight and assuming the 
richness of milk in the case of each to be 
about 3.5 per cent., I constructed from the 
feeds available a ration as nearly as possible 
to Professor Haecker’s new American feed- 
ing standards. This consisted of twenty 
pounds of early cut hay and a grain allow- 
ance of seven pounds per day, consisting 
of three pounds bran and four pounds gluten 
feed. 
This was the best I could do judging 
from milk yield alone, but the first test opened 
my eyes — 5.8 per cent. for the Jersey and 
3.6 per cent. for the Shorthorn. This was 
confirmed a few days later by the churn. 
The Jersey cow was making two and one- 
third pounds of butter a day and_ the 
Shorthorn one and one-half from the same 
amount of milk. From these facts I figure 
that if the latter is worth $40 at present 
(a fair price for a common cow fresh in milk), 
then the Jersey is worth $72. 
The ‘‘dual-purpose” cow will find a 
ready sale in early fall to some of her numer- 
ous admirers in this vicinity and one more 
of the special-purpose cows will occupy 
her stall in my stable. 
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