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Show Dairy Hints Cows like to breathe fresh air. Barns need to be properly ventilated . . Cows will eat three pounds of silage per day for every 100 pounds live weight. Milk, from a cow properly fed, contains con-tains vitamines which are essential to human health. Cows will eat from one to two pounds of alfalfa hay per day for every ev-ery 100 pounds live weight. Alfalfa or clover hay should be Included In-cluded In the ration of calves or yearlings year-lings being fattened for the market. Don't turn cows on pasture until the grass has developed substance and has a good start Put them out for only a short time at first that they may gradually become accustomed to the change. Let the calf suck the fingers and gradually draw Its nose Into the milk, when the fingers should be removed gradually as soon as the calf .gets a taste of the milk. This methoi may have to be repeated several times before be-fore the calf will drink alone. Cows, may eat and may also use for j bedding, timothy hay, quack grass; etc. These roughages require from 18 pet i cent to 20 per cent digestible '.iroteln ' in the grain mixture. Such mixture ; ar? more expensive than wheft alfalfa or clover Is fed. |