Show By Dr L D LeGear I V S st St Sl lo foul Mo n R Ontario Veterinary Colle College 1892 1891 Thirty eight I bt years of work Eminent authority on diseases I and dairy poW poul- poultry r try poul try Nationally known leo leo- writer ond and author I I II I GUARDING THE DAIRY HERD AGAINST COLD GOLD Bad Weather Will Cause Im Im- Immediate Immediate mediate and Costly ReductIon in n M Milk k Which Cannot Be Re- Re Recovered Recovered Re Recovered covered As this tIns is 15 being written rItten a storm is Ib raging my home Just nb it 1 is snowing This TIus I a was ranting raining A cold northwest is blowing The streets are filled with slush the trees are bending under the thc weight of ICY and sIde sidewalks alks are as dangerous as a n newly waxed floor I Somehow my mind wanders out over the countryside to past past- pastures urea past ures pastures ures and barnyards and sheds alid and straw straw stacks Isee I see c cattle huddled against any kind of shelter they tan can find theIr poor feet slipping and amid sliding rv er time the treacherous ice ITo How I wish Ish they might all allbe je e in m warm barns with an extra thickness of bedding for the night wIth every crack and cre crevice Ice fill fill- fill filled pd ed storm windows locked tIght nn and ev every everything r thing possible done to maKe The Time a above bo e protection is essen essen- essentIal essential essential tialin in m all the northern n and cen- cen central cen cen- central central portions of the United States State while lule in III the thc extreme south a dry shed with Ith tight north and went we t walls aIls will usually suffice as as pro pro- protection against storms of And I wish for all that not alone because of my affection and sympathy for animals but be- be because be because cause I know that unless the cows are protected then milk will fall falloff falloff falloff off at an all alarming rate Time The dairy cow of today can be to a delicate piece of machinery She has been experiment experiment m ment nt w we e have for j milk Therefore it is 15 not only inhuman man bud bu plain neglect of good business principles to allow a daIry cow to suffer suffel from cold and wet and mind the many of time the v winter season The inevitable inevitable able is ig 1 less milk There ThOle is normal decline each fall falland and winter which canno cannot be helped But nut by stabling the cows early carly protecting them from storms and cold tIll this falling oft of can be held to a minimum Extra care in feeding during the cold season is of prime inn inn- im importance As one writer has point pointed eel ed out a good dairy cow is one of the hardest worked animals ammal on the time farm It has hac been estimated estimated estimated that a cow producing five fhe gallons of milka milk a n day does docs as much actual labor as a 1500 pound 1500 pound horse at heavy work That is a little hard lIard to believe untIl you stop and analyze it for forn fora fora n a moment A horse draws heavy loads works in the field all day travels miles under harness A cow leads a n lazy life in ison But do not forget that thata cow is using up a tremendous a 1 j of ous amount physical energy She s consumes amounts of food many times tunes more than a horse rhe food is converted into milk Inch means work just Juet the same as ae pulling a load Along with Ith proper goes propel feeding as a meant mean of protection against v weather eather We Vc will hat ha have hae changes e a gOod deal to say about feed in ill sub subsequent sequent articles The point we weare weare are interested in m right now no noIe is Ie r proper balance of ratIon rations durIng the dunn the time the CO cows COs s are arc off of PM- PM ture and confined to stables be- be because be bc because cause of cold The co cow must mut have llave plenty of bulk in l her rations at all tImes because she is built that way In Inthe Inthe Inthe the summer time grass gracs is 11 consumed ed cd which is Lq bulky In the winter n a cow may get all the food alue she needs need in l the grain gram she eats eat but unless there is enough rough roughage age to go along with that gram grain it gramit will not the Furthermore the digestive 0 organs organ will III not be able to change that gram grain into milk unless it has the to help in m the process It is a real known fact that in III herds where here the same grain gram ratIon IS fed the cow cows which v give the most milk are the ones which eat the most forage A good rule to follow is to give the the CO cows COs s all nIl the roughage they of will Ill cat eat and add to it an air amount of grain gram that is 15 necessary to meet the nutritive requirements CopyrIght 1930 by Dr L D LeGear V S |