Corn 10 8.95 .75 7.24 8.57 Corn Stover 10 8.10 .21 4.31 4.61 Alfalfa Hay 12 10.97 1.27 4.78 6.19 No. 2 Corn Silage 40 10.52 .44 6.28 7.08 Alfalfa Hay 10 9.14 1.06 3.99 5.16 Wheat Bran 2 1.79 .25 .89 1.21 Corn Meal 6 5.32 .41 4.35 5.08 No. 3 Corn Silage 35 9.20 .38 5.49 6.19 Alfalfa Hay 10 9.14 1.06 3.99 5.16 Ground Corn 5 4.43 .34 3.62 4.19 Wheat Bran 5 4.49 .62 2.23 3.04 Linseed Meal 1¹⁄₂ 1.35 .47 .61 1.13 At the Nebraska State Fair in 1920 there was in the Dairy building a large Holstein cow designated as the champion cow of Nebraska for 1919. She is owned by Chris Stryker of Red Cloud. I copied from the records the amount of feed she consumed in a year and the amount of her production. They are as follows: Feed Returns lbs. lbs. lbs. Corn 1790 Beets 9645 Milk 26,721.5 Oil Meal 1352 Dried beet Butter 1,066 Barley 463 pulp 1254 Bran 2312 Hay 4068 Oats 498 Silage 4680 ---- ------ Total 6452 Total 19,647 It will be noticed that she consumed a little less than 18 pounds of grain per day on an average throughout the year, that the grain consisted of five varieties, and that the rough feed was of a high order, which makes it more expensive than most of us can afford to use as a regular feed. Beets are chemically about equal to corn silage, but in actual results in feeding they are considerably superior. I have not fed dried beet pulp, but I have fed it fresh and it is a very good milk producer. Cows milk down thin on it. If we would increase the figures on the dried beet pulp to what it would be if the pulp were fed fresh, it would bring the beet ration up to at least three times the amount of the silage ration. CHAPTER VI. VARIATION IN MILK TESTS G. W. Shaw in Hoard’s Dairyman of March 10, 1916 says: “It is a well-known fact that the percentage of butter fat in the milk of cows increases very materially toward the end of a period of lactation. There are also other slight changes in that period. During the first month the fat generally averages higher than during the second month. Under normal conditions of feed, etc., the fat increases from the third or fourth month to the end of lactation.