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Show Know About the Cows. It is astonishing how little' most cow owners know about their animals.- One - man will have a lot of good, average and poor, cows, and yet have very little conception of their' real or relative value. To demonstrate this, one has but to go out to buy ; a cow, and inquire as to milking capacity of any one of them at any 1 farm. ' He is told that such and such. a cow gives a "pailful" of milk twice a day," and that it is very rich. Not infrequently he is told that the cow gives ten quarts of milk morning and night, with the inference that this rate of milk giving is continued the year around. But the scales and the test change all these opinions. The cow that was reported to be giving about 40 pounds per. day is found to be giving about one-third of that on an average. The other rate would have given over 14,000 pounds of milk per year and cows giving that amount are not too numerous. The man that , buys cows to put into a dairy is cob-'vj - ing to demand a very complete knowl- edge of them. He wants a yearly knowledge of weight of milk produced, pro-duced, as well as richness tests-throughout tests-throughout the milking period. He-will He-will not, if he is wise, trust the hired man's or any one else's guess as to how much milk a cow can give. |