Show BEST FOOD eor FOB minch HILCH COWS in an essay lately read before the vermont Dairy mens association mr alexander hyde of massachusetts said that the luxuriant and succulent grass of june produces a great flow of milk but the per cent of water in it is much above the average of 87 take a cow from a green pasture and feed her on dry hay and the quantity of milk will be greatly diminished while the quality may be improved everything a cow eats affects her milk directly we have great faith in cabbages as producing prod neing an abundance of rich milk but unfortunately tuna tely the lady who presides over our household has keen senses and detects in the milk the least flavor of cabbage or turnip we have sometimes evaded de lection by feeding cabbage leaves mod irately at first and immediately after milking but the increased quantity an and d quality of the milk if not the taste taro laro aro are apt to call out the sly quest question lozi iwho what are you feeding your cows on now cow sweet corn fodder we are confident gives a licher richer milk than common corn indian meal all farmers agree gives a rich milk while buckwheat increases the per cent of water more rapidly than it does the more valuable properties clover cut green greata I 1 im proves the qualey of the milk being being a leguminous plant it should add to its casein rather than to its butter pea vines also leguminous are extensively used at the south where the grasses do not flourish as food for cows andare said to produce excellent milk there can be no question but that grain cut before it goes to seed will produce more and better milk than after all its virtues have been beed spent in their pose of producing seed after its kind kin if the hay has been made from crassas grass gras sas as dry and aud woody as oat straw it mi may lie lio b e benefited by being cut and moistened but can never be restored to its crl cri original ginal nutrition any more than the daughters of tobias could rejuvenate their thel raged aad father by cutting him up and boiling him all the roots add to the flow of milk an and d improve its quality they furnish both food rood and drink being lar largely gely composed of bf water the feeding of roots does not save as much hay as some suppose they keep the animal in good health eaith and hud appetite and are valuable valuable in their sanitary and effects rather than as an economizer of hay the increase of milk and manure is very man idest from the feeding of roots potatoes make the best of milk but at the p present i res prices we can hardly amford afford to feed those of a merchantable size and quality the small potatoes can be put to no better use than food for young stock and cows they furnish much saline matter thus addin adding to the specific gravity of milk and to ta the material for build building up the framework of the young animal As an observing dairywoman once said to us potatoes give body to milk I 1 it is cruel to tax cows in winter for milk and give them nothing but dry hay from which to manufacture it if cut before maturity this hay contains all the elements of milk but it itis is dry fodder and if it constitutes the only food of the cow day after day for six months there is a sameness abou tit it which is not wot provocative of a good appetite ite As men crave and need needa a ja apt clet riet niety y of f food so BO do cows A few brne brnt beets Us or turnips or carrots should be fed to them each day and the sleek coats of the animals and the improved quantity and quality of their milk will indicate their appreciation of these roots one of the best and most econom economical isal kinds of feed for cows both in summer bummer and wi wahter wih liter ilter ter is the bran of wheat and rye tye the inorganic part of grain resides chiefly in the busk husk or bran 8 as may way be seen by burn burning ing similar quantities of fine flour and bran the ash of the latter will on the average be six times that of the the former the ash of dry fine flour being about I 1 per cent ant and that of bran 6 per cent of the weight of the whole bran therefore though a dry looking sort of fodder is rich in those elements which form the framework of animals and dr graham was doubtless correct when he advocated making bread from unbolted flour many dairymen practice putting a couple of quarts of wheat bran into six or eight quarts of whey and feeding it to their cows night and morning thereby improving their milk their cows and their pastures the improvement of the latter is especially manifest as theoran the bran restores to them the r phosphorus sulphur potash lime soda lle ble ac fec of which our pastures have become exhausted these essential constituents of good soil having been carried off in the bones of the animals and the grain and dairy products sold 7 the pall mail uail gazette is the authority th that atthe the following story is true the visiting justices of a certain inland county were inspecting a lunatic asylum A female patient handed to one of them a paper to read in vindication of her sanity after perusing a part pirt of on the spot the justices petit put it aside for the time timo being coming edming to the conclusion that the very phraseology of the writer was conclusive proof of her lunacy upon a subsequent and more careful analysis of the petition it was discovered that the sentences which had so struck the justices as conclusive proof of lunacy bertak on en verbatim from a leading artic artio leiu lefa leia the daily telegraphy telegraph |