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Show The Dairy Interesting Notes For Such People. The Farmers Voice offers the fol. low Ing A prll suggestions for the dalrv-man: dalrv-man: "Ily the middle of the month, If the weather is favorable, many dairy herds will be turned on grass. Do not withhold with-hold the grain ration at this tlmo of the change from diy to green food Will be made too rapidly, and the milk flow Is likely to diminish rather than Increase. Do not mix warm and cold nvlk, as this hastens decomposition The aeration of fresh drawn milk Is the best expedient to properly expel the animal heat and lesson the tang of undesirable un-desirable odois The money value of rich food, compared com-pared with the cheaper poor food, Is largely increased when fed to good cows Instead of poor cows. For daiiy work we must lood to the Individuality of each cow- Good milkers must be good feeders, but good feeders are not always good milkers A cow which does not have the facultj or tin nlng food Into milk has no place hi the dairy herd The production of butter does not deplete the soil as docs selling crops of gialn When the waste milk Is consumed con-sumed on the farm the soil Is robbed only of a slight amount of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, and these elements are Die prime Incentives to plant growth. Nitrogen can be returned re-turned to the soil from the air by growing leguminous plants, and the quantity of the other elements Is so small that a lifetime of dairying will not make the land appreciably poorer, even where no concentrated feeds are purchased From four to six pounds is the profitable pro-fitable gialn ration for dairy cows on psture Much more than this will not increase the How of milk in proportion pro-portion to the Increased cost, under ordinary prices of milk and with tht run of good dairy cows. |