1913. 
THE RURAb NBW-VORKER 
113 
A MICHIGAN DAIRY CONTEST. 
You will be interested in hearfng 
about a four-day dairy cow contest 
which was held here December 16-20, 
and a dairy institute December 21, pro¬ 
gram of which I send you. Both con¬ 
test and institute were promoted by the 
Jersey Cattle Club, which is a coopera¬ 
tive breeding company organized three 
years ago for the improvement of the 
dairy cow here. The contest was the 
outcome of discussions regarding a bal¬ 
anced ration and the value of different 
feeds. The question has not been set¬ 
tled definitely as yet, and there is more 
argument than ever, because of the fact 
that the prize was won by a cow that 
was not fed anywhere near a balanced 
ration, and some of the contestants 
claim that it was won by a trick; that 
cue ration was cut down purposely for 
the four days. However, the owner 
claims that rush of farm work, namely 
husking machine and sawing wood in 
the neighborhood during the week, did 
not allow him time to prepare his feeds 
properly, and comes back at them in a 
challenge for a seven-day contest under 
the strictest rules, and I think some of 
them are going to accept. 
Rules Governing the Contest. 
Rule I—Any cow of any age is eligible 
for entry whose owner is a patron of the 
Litchfield Co-Operative Creamery, and who 
makes entry on or before December 10, 
1912. 
Rule II—All cows entered for this con¬ 
test must be brought to a place designated 
by the committee for the cattle judging, 
on the morning of December 21, at 9 
o'clock. This will have no influence on 
the award, but is for comparison and il¬ 
lustration only. 
Rule III—During this contest the cows 
will be kept at the owner’s barn and 
eared for and fed as he may decide, but 
must be fed and milked only in the pres¬ 
ence of an inspector appointed by the 
committee. Enough inspectors will be ar¬ 
ranged for to care for all the cows entered 
for this contest, and visits .will be so ar¬ 
ranged as to conform to the habitual milk¬ 
ing time as near as may be, but the owner 
will be expected to cooperate with the in¬ 
spector to some extent. Complete ar¬ 
rangements for inspection will be made 
Immediately after the entries are closed. 
Rule IV—An allowance of a small per 
cent, will be allowed for each month the 
cow has been in milk, up to 8 (eight) 
months, so as to remove any handicap 
that may occur in the time of freshening. 
Rule A —The inspector will weigh and 
record all feed during the contest and 
must see the cow milked at each milking 
time, and will weigh and sample each 
milking and deliver the samples to the 
committee for testing. He shall keep as 
accurate account and record of the care, 
feed and breeding of the cow, for the use 
of the committee, and collect all other in¬ 
formation required by them. He shall be¬ 
gin his duties at milking time Monday 
evening, December 16, but will not at 
this time take any records or samples, 
only satisfy himself that the cow is milked 
clean at this time. 
Rule VI—There will be no restrictions 
in feeding or care of the cow entered for 
this contest, except that all feed must 
be weighed and recorded by the inspector. 
Any hay or other feed that may be fed at 
noon must be weighed by the inspector at 
the time of the morning visit, and the 
owner may be required by the inspector, 
at the close of the contest, to make affi¬ 
davit that no other feed has been given 
except that weighed and recorded by the 
inspector. 
Rule VII—The cow will be charged with 
all feed consumed during the contest, at 
the prevailing prices on December 1, and 
credited with the butter fat produced, at 
the price paid by the creamery in the 
checks that will be issued December 20. 
Skim milk will be credited at 30 cents per 
100 pounds. 
^ ou will notice by the rules that there 
was no restriction on feeds whatever, 
but the committee made them that way 
to get a greater number to enter their 
cows than would have been possible if 
they had been like those at the State 
hair at Detroit. We have the interest 
aroused to such a point now, however, 
where we may make the rules as strict 
as we please and have a lively contest 
anyway. 
The cup which was given as a prize 
before it becomes the property of the 
owner, so that we are sure of another 
interesting time next year. Butter fat 
was produced in this contest at from 
11.4 cents per pound, which was by 
Stoddard & Sons, to 30.5 cents, but 
most of the 16 cows entered ranged 
from 15.4 cents to 17.5 cents. The sec¬ 
ond best cow, owned by J. M. Landis, 
produced at a cost of 14.2 cents, and 
was closely followed by W. E. Sheldon 
at 14.3 cents. 
The ration fed the winner was shelled 
corn and whole oats mixed in the pro¬ 
portion of six pounds corn to three 
pounds oats, about 18 pounds of the 
mixture being fed per day; roughage 
was corn fodder shredded. All others 
in the test secured silage in the ration 
with different kinds of hay, with various 
grain rations, most of which included 
cotton seed or oilmeal as well as corn, 
oats and buckwheat middlings. I will 
leave you to draw your conclusions re¬ 
garding the various rations, but will 
only say that a prominent dairy author¬ 
ity present at the institute said the win¬ 
ner could not produce the flow of milk 
and live two months on her ration. 
Short tests of this kind are not very 
satisfactory as showing what may be 
done in the way of producing economic¬ 
ally, but are chiefly valuable in arousing 
interest and consequently lively rivalry 
among the community, and this was the 
main object of the club in promoting a 
contest of this kind. 
The program for the institute was 
carried out much as it was planned, 
only one number being omitted, and al¬ 
though the crowd was smaller than ex¬ 
pected, everyone present was there with 
a purpose, and entered into the spirit 
of the meeting, and all are looking for¬ 
ward to next year’s contest like boys 
to a circus. Some of the readers of 
this will remember my account of our 
cooperative creamery given some time 
ago, and I will say here that it is more 
prosperous than ever, and is paying to 
the patrons more than $1,200 monthly 
above Elgin prices, and we have nearly 
doubled the output since the organiza¬ 
tion. This, together with our coopera¬ 
tive breeding associations and other 
work along this line, is arousing more 
interest in dairying in this section 
and is making Litchfield known 
throughout the State as a center of 
the industry. The only thing we need 
now to complete our prosperity is a 
cooperative marketing association. This 
has been agitated somewhat, but we 
have not the requisite knowledge as yet 
to form, but are looking for all kinds 
of information. Do any of the R. N.-Y. 
readers know such an association in 
successful operation? If so, we would 
be glad to get the particulars through 
The R. N. Y. and to get in corres¬ 
pondence with them. 
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