Show SOME EXCELLENT HINTS FOR DAIRYMEN by W MILTON KELLY every dairyman should be a special ast 1st future performance depends upon present management scientific feeding Is only a high founding name for rational feeding the special purpose cow Is one means of securing success in dairying the first essential of a profitable dairy business Is an intelligent dairyman the real value of a pure bred dairy eow lies in her pedigree it Is the power of heredity every well organized farm has been made so by a man with a well organ iced mind good common sense mixed with judgment and knowing the needs and characteristics of the animals insures success it is unfortunate that there are not solid neighborhoods of dairymen who work together in improving their dairy herds the future hope of our farming depends upon how our young men are educated that they may see bow nature works every cow that Is worth raising a calf from should be considered as doing a double work and be fed and treat ed accordingly A little top dressing will help out the thin spots in the new seeding and make the grass come along in places where very little can be seen there can be no euca a thing as management of a dairy farm without a regular rotation of crops in which a legume figures at least once in three or tour years never allow a heifer to dry oft early the first season tor once jahe habit becomes established it will be very difficult to prolong the milking period keep the herd bull where it will be convenient to feed and water him at the same time you care tor the cows if he Is kept off by himself he is quite apt to be neglected II 11 the ensilage Is frozen it Is an ex cellena plan to leave it in the stable two or three hours to take oft the cbill this may not sound like good advice in the face of what many authorities say about the milk becoming tainted but it Is better than feeding frozen ensilage to the cows plan to tie the cows so that they cannot step on each others teats many excellent cows have been ruined by having the ones next to them step on their teats avoid buying the so called mixed and prepared dairy beede as long as you can get the good whole grains and hire them ground and mixed as you want them no man knows just what be Is buying because the label on the bags says so much protein etc |