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THE RURAL HEW-YORKER 
April 18, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
TESTING A COW AND WHY. 
[Since we printed the picture of that 
big-bagged Holstein there have been a 
number of requests for further informa¬ 
tion. IIow do they make these cows give 
so much milk and what is the use of it?] 
I have received several letters regard¬ 
ing m.v cow, whose picture was published 
in The R. N.-Y. One man says that the 
picture was a fake—that no cow ever 
carried such an udder. Now I can prove 
that it was not a fake, but a true un¬ 
touched photograph. It is true that the 
picture was taken with the idea of show¬ 
ing tip the cow’s udder to the best effect. 
meal. As soon as the swelling of the 
udder began to subside, I increased her 
grain ration, and put her back onto her 
former feed, with gluten added. I did 
not wish to get the swelling all out of her 
udder, for it is when this swelling is 
subsiding that the cow will generally test 
the highest. 
As soon as it was practical to do so, | 
she was milked four times a day, and fed 
grain and watered at every milking. She 
was fed grain at the rate of one pound 
of grain to four of milk, which is about 
the ratio which is generally considered 
safe feeding. After her test was finished, 
I milked her hut three times a day for a 
short time, and then hut twice. I have 
eased her off, and she is now giving 
That was what it was for, and by the 
way, that is one of the things that go to 
make a successful breeder in purebreds— 
to be able to see them, and then get them 
in shape so that others will be forced to 
see them. So the cow was photographed 
just a few hours before she calved, when 
she was in full bloom, plump and full, 
and with a fully distended udder. Then 
she was placed in the proper position 
with her udder just a little closer to the 
camera and her hind leg farthest from 
the camera pressing against the udder to 
throw it out and show it off. Anyone 
can get just as good a picture if he has 
the subject and tries hard enough, but 
there is no reason why the man who 
is too lazy to try should holler “fake.” 
In fitting the cow, I stated that I 
forced her dry when she was giving 30 
pounds of milk per day. I did this by 
taking away all her feed but dry hay 
and then stopped milking her. Yes, her 
udder swelled up in a way to make one 
nervous. I did bathe her bag in hot 
water, but otherwise let her alone. I 
don’t say that this treatment might not 
spoil some cows, or even this one next 
time, but one has to take chances if he 
would win. 
The man I bought this heifer from paid 
$400 for her with the expectation of in¬ 
creasing her two-year-old record and 
making a profit on her. lie did not dry 
her off, and she did not make a record 
with him. So I got her at $250. I have 
increased her record, and to-day she is 
worth at least $500, and her heifer calf 
$200 more. After the heifer’s udder got 
soft again and the fever all out of it, I 
began graining her again, a mixture of 
ground oats (to give her life and vigor), 
wheat bran (as a laxative, and to lighten 
up her udder), hominy and oil meal to 
fatten her. Why hominy instead of corn- 
meal? Well, the hominy is not so heat¬ 
ing, and it produces a soft fat, and so 
does the oil meal. 
Remember that the test was a seven- 
day test, and therefore I wanted a soft 
fat—quickly put on and easy to get off. 
Her roughage consisted of mixed hay, Al¬ 
falfa and Timothy, early cut, also man¬ 
gels, but no silage. Silage is good feed 
but too bulky for my purpose. I cannot 
afford to fill up the space inside my cow 
with anything containing so little nour¬ 
ishment as silage when I want her to do 
her best. After she freshened, but lit¬ 
tle milk was drawn from her udder at 
first. It was given lots of hand rubbing 
to keep down the “cake” and just enough 
milk withdrawn to relieve her. Now 
her feed consisted of hay and mangels, 
with a little bran and a very little oil 
around 50 pounds a day. I expect to 
grain her some all Summer, and keep her 
in the best physical condition, in regard 
to her health, that I know how. Some¬ 
time, when she is fully mature, I hope to 
“trot her another heat” and place her 
among the 30-pound cows. 
Perhaps some breeders will say that 
I have told some “trade secrets” that 
might better have been left untold, but 
my excuse is that I believe it is best that 
there be no secrets. So many cows are 
making good tests that a good many peo¬ 
ple have come to think that a cow is no 
good unless she can make 20 or 30 pounds 
of butter in a week, while the fact re- 
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