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Show DAIRY NOTES. Keep a cow. she's a winner. High ceilings and plenty of light are the price of good health in the dairy. Never offer a pound of poor buttei for sale. Better take it right out and bury it in the back lot. Clover bloat can usually be prevented prevent-ed by keeping the calf oft the clover when it is wet from dew or rain. Make a good JOD oi wasmng me separator. One time of neglect may cost you the' price of a churning. The grain for calves should be fed first while the calf is quite small with a little bran to aid in learning to eat Butter making can be readily reduced re-duced to a system, and should be. It is the slip-shod way that causes so much poor butter to be sent to market. mar-ket. The old cow knows better how to color butter than you do. Let her take that part of the work. Throw the bottle of bogus color as far as you can send It. Farmers and feeders would do well to pay more attention to the root crops in their attempt at getting the ideal feeding ration, both for beef and dairy cattle. Utensils used for milk should be rinsed with cold water and. then with boiling water, thoroughly drained and allowed to become cold before being filled with milk. When a cow once falls off in miU production it is more difficult to bring her back to her full flow than to so feed her as to keep her as near hei capacity as possible. Save some or the oats to grind for the milch cows. You never will find a better grain to make milk. Sell every cow that you suspect of soldiering on you, and do it now, before be-fore you have fed out a lot of high-priced high-priced feed. Don't put on the dirtiest old clothes you can find to milk It. Have a nice clean suit and keep it so. To help about that, brush the cows off every ' time before you Bit down to milk. |