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Show CORRECT TIME FOR FEEDING Better Results Secured by Giving Full Feeds in Morning and Night Mix Salt With Grain. Many feeders seem to think (hat the oftener they can coax the cow to cat the better, but I believe that better results may be obtained by feeding full feeds in the morning ana at night and a light feed of hay abo-nr noon, says a writer in an exchange. . We feed silage, grain and hay in tin-morning, tin-morning, as soon as the milking if-completed, if-completed, a light feed of hay at ttoots-to ttoots-to induce the cows to walk directly 1 their places when they come in from the yard, and repeat the morning feert at night, immediately after riiilP.:inK. We have found It better not to fre7 the cows before milking time, and more especially when silage is heinic fed, as it is likely to impart a had odor lo Ihe milk. The amount of salt to feed depend? upon conditions. We feed mote suit than many dairymen for the reason that when feeding corn siluge we ham difficulty in getting the rows to drink sufficient water, unless tliey h&v plenty of salt. It may be one of the writer's notions, no-tions, but there seems to ho something some-thing about the slightly mid condition of the silage that satisfies the cow't thirst, and for that reason we mix !t with the grain feed. One ounce a 1y is fed to each cow in her prai'i irilimi. and once a week we giv thorn norm in their mangers. We have writer bnr.im by the sitf---of Ihe cows, but the animals i returned re-turned out every day In tiie i.-.-ir-wh'le the stables are b'ii-g cU-.ifrcr arid aired out. Our yani-i are kcIT sheltered, and we seldom leave llteir out more than three q ian i i s of an hour. They are turned out in gr'rcin--. of ten oi twelve and made to sfny out until we are ready for them to. come to their places. On very iod days they are not kepi out. enough to get chilled. |