Testing and Feeding Jerseys.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 155, 13 May 1909, Page 3

Testing and Feeding Jerseys.

A writer in an American paper gives his experience of testing and feeding A few years ago I really began official testing. With the exception of three or four cows in the very beginning of our test work, each and every cow on test has been given the regular herd routine and is handled no differently from the other cows. For this reason our records are not exceptionally higb, and wc have criticised ourselves very often for not having given the cows on official an opportunity for doing (heir best. However, in spite of this. %vc can point with pride to the fact that 31 of our cows arc now entered in tbc register of merit with yearly official records, and that many of them are reasonably high and that one cow Adelaide Altama, last year made 10,249.0625 pounds milk, 593.566 pounds fat, equal to 686J pounds butter and a live calf in one year.

In a general way I might say that we save all our heifer calves and the bulls from our very best cows only. These calves are fed whole milk for a short time depending upon the amount we have to spare, we being engaged in the city milk supply business, and as soon as possible they are put over on akim mi.'k and fed some grain. The cows' feed consists of bay, silage and a grain ration composed mostly of cottonseed meal, and dried beet pulp, sometime?! oilmeal being added, and when cheap enough we sometimes use gluten meal, dried malt sprouts or ground peas. We have fed no bran for the past five years, having substituted dried beet pulp.