A CHAMPION COW’S MENU

Shannon News, 3 December 1926, Page 3

A CHAMPION COW’S MENU

' : + ' 1 ONE MAN’S WORK. Some of these “milky mothers of tho herd’’ can get away with a fair daily ration. They are efficient factories for converting vegetable substance into butter-fat, and the big producers of that valuable commodity deal with a tremendous amount of faw material every day. Take, for instance, tho Jersey cow, Bloom of Richmond, which is the pride of the Hawkesbury Agricultural , Colegc. Sho lately completed a 365 aays’ test'for a yield of 15>068iflb. milk, containing 905.111 b butter-fat, equivalent to 1090 Sib butter. Bloom of Richmond is the fourth representative of tho Hawkesbury College herd to top tho 10001 b mark in a year. New South Wales has 21 cows that have topped the 10001 b record, and eight of them are Jerseys. But no dairy farmer can secure these .results unless he is prepared to provide very substantial meals. Bloom of Richmond enjoyed her food. As a foundation, she got outsido of 251 b of silage and 10 lb of chaff daily, following up that “piece de resistance” with 31b of ,bran and. 21b of linseed'meal. She filled up the chinks by steady grazing on the succulent pastures of the college, and a liberal allowance of green lucerne was also available. Bloom became an automatic factory for tfie production of milk exceptionally rich in buttcr-fat. She was milked three times a day during the test. It should be observed tbat her attendant is entitled to some credit. To supply Bloom of Richmond with her regular meals, to perform her toilet, and to milk her three times a, day, represents a steady job for a skilled person.