Show DAIRY COWS NEED REST BEST PERIOD SAYS DAIRY ADVIS Ot by protessor professor george B D calne caine head dairy department it Is sometime sometimes some timea claimed by dairy men that it is impossible to dry up a particular cow generally hen a cow Is milking extremely well at t the close of her lactation period it is an indication that she la Is a good cow but it if that Is the th case this tali Is no excuse tor for the herds mans not drying her up if the cow is hard to dry ott off the first thing to do is to change net ner feed it if she Is on pasture getting good green feed lock her up in a dry feedlot for or a few days take her ber green teed feed away from boru her and milt milk her a at t irregular intervals if 1 in the winter when the cows are in the th barn all the time the first thing thine to do Is to take away the grain change the hay ration from rom alfalfa to timothy or some other food thit that is not so palatable and milk at irregular intervals with cows that are producing only about ten pounds of milk per day it is not necessary generally to do anything with them except stop milking them or milk at very irregular intervals with cows that are producing as much as from fifteen to twenty pounds a day dair elther one ot of the first methods mentioned ment loneil may be employed to get satisfactory results the idea that is prevalent in the western country that when a caw is dry she needs very little to eat is wrong and the sooner this eruct ice is eliminated abe better off the ih dairyman will become s and ad the greter greater production they will get irom from their dairy cows to produce milk Is just as much tax on the system of the dairy cow as hard work it is on the average d draft ft horse and for that reason it requires considerable energy and 11 nutrients to keep up the body it has been proved beyond question that cows when dry tor for a month to six eix week are much better producers than it milked up to within two weeks or a few days of their carting calving time PT |