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Show till .Meal for Dairy t ow-i. There scorns to be a good deal of misapprehension as to tho elTect of feeding oil meal to dairy cows, says tho well known writer on eoonoiuio farm subjects, A. L. Crosby, in National Na-tional Stockman. Some think it will produce abortion, or will ruin tho butter, but-ter, or do various other things to the injury of the cows or their product. Oil meal is made from flaxseed which is ground und the oil pressed out, leaving as residue u hard cake; this is reground and is then the oil meal or linseed meal of commerce. In tho old process oil meal thero is still from G to 8 per cent of oil. but this quantity is i not largo enough to injui-o cows when ; they nre fed very liberally with it. In fact it is this oil that makes tho old process meal so desirable as a footling j stuff In comparison with tho new process pro-cess meal, from which the oil hs nearly j all extracted. One effect of feeding oil monl !s to keep tho animal's bowels in good condition, and this Is just what we must do in the case of cows about to calve. It is at the same time a food containing all tho elements needed by the cow to grow tho calf to perfection, and when delivery takes place there is lews danger of retention of theplacentu. garget or that most dreaded of all diseases, milk fever. I have fed my cows nil w inter with u liberal feed of oil meal twice u day. and tho last one of tho herd calved to-day. I have hnd no trouble whatever with cows at calving time or after, and I can confidently confi-dently advise dairymen lo use oil meal (old process) ns a part of their ration. I notice an inquiry in the Stockman of March o. from M. S. .., of Benllsville, Pa . who want- to know if oil meal will produce garget, lie says he feeds from a pint and a half to two pints a day to eHeii cow. 1 have fed from thi-ie to five quarts a day to my-eows till winter, ind as said above have had r.o f-arget to contend witn, so M. S 7.. must look for some other i a-.iso for his two cases of garget. |