Show DAISY DAIRY COWS NEED REST PERIOD SAYS A C DAIRY ADVISER AD by PROF GEORGE 13 CAINE dairy dept U S A C it Is sometimes by dairymen that it la Is impossible to dry up ill a particular cow Gene generally Tally when a cow la is milking extremely well at the close of her lactation period it is an indication that she lg Is a 9 good cow but it that I 1 Is s t the it case this Is no excuse tor for the t h herds mans not drying her up tip it if the cow Is hard to dry oft off tile the first thing to to do is to change her teel feed it she lg Is on pasture getting good green teed feed lock her up in a dry feedlot for a few days take her green feed away from froin her and milk her at irregular intervals it if in fit tile the winter when the cows are in ili the barn all the time the first thing to do is to take away the grain change the hay ration from alfalfa to timothy or some other food that Is not so palatable and milk at irregular intervals with cows that are producing only about ten pounds ot of milk per day it Is not necessary generally to to do anything with them except stop atop milking them or milk at very irregular intervals with cows that are producing as much as from 15 to 20 pounds a day either one or of the first methods mentioned may be employed to get satisfactory results the idea that Is prevalent in the wes tern country that when a cow is dry she needs very litt little Is to eat Is wrong and the sooner this practice Is eliminated tile the oft the dairymen will become and the greater production they will get from their ameir dairy cows to produce milk Is just as much n tax on the llie system of the dairy cow as hard work la is on oil the average draft horse and tor for that reason it requires considerable energy and nutrients nutrient to keep up the body it has been proved beyond question that cows when dry for a month to six weeks are much better producers than it milked up tip to within two weeks or a few days of thear calving time |