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Show "s . -J Regularity should be the keynote of every successful dairy system. Make a study of foods, and feed a balanced ration. This will save waste. When cut in the milk and cured, the oat and pea hay is most palatable and nutritious. A good dairy cow should have all the feed she will eat and digest, and keep in good health. Successful dairying depends entirely entire-ly on right methods in breeding, feeding feed-ing and management. The dairymen who are not successful success-ful do not apply ordinary business principles to their calling. Success in dairy farming depends not only on good stock, but also on good common 6ense work. Stir the cream twice a day, using a long-handled spoon which will reach to the bottom of the cream jar. With good cows, good food, good stables, all profits can be wiped out by an ignorant or cruel stable msn. There may be occasional bad luck in the dairy business, but It almost Invariably In-variably follows bad management. An exposed or an abused cow will give less milk, and that milk of a poorer quality, than one well cared for. It is a well known fact that the cow that makes the largest profit is given the best care and most comfortable com-fortable shelter. A cow has a peculiarly sensitive and delicate organization. Heifers require a larger amount of feed for the production of a certain amount of milk than do older cows. They have to grow. The man with the hammer really is engaged In a process of slow suicide. sui-cide. And it isn't a happy death he is treating himself to, either. |