Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — The Effect of Breed on Feed. [ARTICLE]

The Effect of Breed on Feed.

A great many farmers are asking questions of themselves, their neighbors, and agricultural journals, concerning food for cows and how to feed it. One point in the economy of feeding many overlook. That is, the value or effect of breed, and individual fitness of the animal, on the feed. This can be made very apparent in the case of horses. A trotter having the trot bred into him will take a moderate feed of oats and trot his mile in 2:20. Another horse bred for draft purpose could not trot a mile in that time if he was fed ten tons of oats. So it is with cows. One cow takes her feed and turns it into milk and butter, and 6he will eat a heavy ration each day, and still keep in that channel. She has a constitutional fitness for the performance of

dairy work; and so feed stimulates her powers m that direction. Another cow having a beef tendency in her blood will do dairy work up to a certain extent, when she turns the food into flesh and fat on her own ribs. Therefore, in the study of economy of feeding, it is highly essential to have the right kind of a eow to put the feed into.—Hoard’s Dairyman.