Show REDUCING DAIRY LOSSES ON LIVE STOCK heavy toll caused by shipping fever and other ills prepared by the united state department 0 agriculture precautions to take in shipping live stock are contained in leaflet 38 L maintaining the health of live stock in transit just issued by the united states department of agriculture the leaflet deals chiefly with the prevention of hemorrhagic or shipping fever and related maladies that hiie caused serious losses anions cattle received at public stock yards and country feeding points the key to the reduction of shipping losses according to the author dr A W miller assistant chief bu renu of animal industry Is greater care in handling which in turn con serves the vitality of stock so they can better resist the hardships of travel among the devitalising devita lising influx ances to be especially avoided are ex kosure to severe weather changes in the routine of feeding and watering excitement and the leaflet contains recommends a alons on the care feeding and water ing of cattle before during and after shipment the use of biological prod nets for preventing shipping fever Is likewise discussed numerous allus trat lons supplement the text showing desirable means of handling stock as well as conditions to be avoided the leaflet Is part of a systematic endeavor by the national live stock and traders exchanger railroads the live stock producers association cia tion government live stock and others to reduce the heavy toll of losses caused by shipping fever and kindred ailments conservative estimates have placed the loss at fully a million dollars annually and in some years it has been as high as four million dollars copies of the leaflet may be obtained by writing the office of information united states department of agriculture washington D 0 special care of dairy of importance ew such as milk cans dippers buckets etc as well as new separator rusts more e isaly than old used the reason Is simple metal surfaces do not have a perfectly impervious glaze like glassware or crockery they are more or less porous with use theae pores soon become filled ap with a sort of a film grease which then serves as a protective coating for the metal it Is very important therefore that the tinned parts of a cream separator be given extra care the first month or two that Is they should be thoroughly dried either with a dry cloth or by being hung in a warm dry place or both this matter Is one of special importance nowadays since a very large proportion of cream separator sales are replacements and where a farmer gets a new separator in trade for his old one in most aises he follow with the new machine the same washing he had been following with his old one with the result eliat the new rusts where the old did not lie does not realize that new requires greater care than old and he particularly does not realize that when his old tw was new it was regarded as something out of the ordinary and the best care possible was none too good for it hay roughage useful in winter ration for cows feed all the roughage the cow will clean up this will be approximately three pounds corn and one pound of hay or five to six pounds of roots and one pound of hay or one pound of dried beet pulp soaked 12 to 24 hours batore feeding and one pound of hay or two pounds of legume hay or other dried roughage for each pounds of live weight where at all possible it Is desirable that both a succulent and a leguminous hay be used in the roughage portion of the ration the roost economical production of milk Is not ordinarily other wise possible I 1 eed the grain mixture according to the amount of milk produced this means about one pound of concen for each three to three and a half pounds of milk produced in the case of a jersey or guernsey or for each three and a half to four pounds of milk produced when feeding an brown swiss or succulent feed corn silage has become a standard ingredient in the ration in most of the larger dairies it provides succulence succulent la a general term used to describe the tonic or con properties of green beoda forming the bulk of the usual winter ration it not only supplies succulent feed but also affords n convenient and economical way of harvesting stor ing and feeding the corn crop A dairy farm without a silo Is almost an un known quantity these adny |