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Show Dairy Cows Rustling in Stalk Fields for Feed Dairy cows forced to rustle around a cornstalk field for a part of their feed in winter cannot produce enough milk to make them profitable. Even when the very best of grain feeds are fed to cows which are called upon to get all their dry roughage in the slalk Held, there Is very little chance for them to make a worthwhile milk yield. One reason for this Is that cows that are kept out of doors use up most of their feed to keep warm, and the other reason Is that there Is very little in cornstalks from which a cow can make milk. A good niilk-producing cow Is usually usu-ally thin in flesh. She is thin-skinned and cannot stand the cold. She needs to be kepi In warm quarters to he comfort:. hie. Even under such conditions condi-tions she cannot make much use of cornstalks as a part of her feed. She needs plenty of digestible, milk making mak-ing fords nil the time. This is true whether she is in milk or in dry con d'tion. When she is not making milk she should he fed liberally so that she will keep on producing milk profitably when she freshens again. |