Show file t 1 1 11 DAIRY COW REQUIRES REST animal Is enabled not only to do her belt beat while being milked but yields greater return returns it LL most farmers seem to breed the cow with h oo 00 concern as to her resourceful ness or enduring qualities she is bred at an early ace age bred again just as soon as possible after her first calving held right to her milk as nearly ae as possible to her next calving time and handled thus until she Is worn orn out and no longer useful with such management her unborn calf will hare have much of its suite nanco apken from it on account of the nour going toward keeping up the cow which r results alts in a weakened offspring and gradually wields a most deteriorating teri orating effect on the grade ot of the herd in general since each succeeding calf call will be still more undesirable than the one before it we have seen cows whose nature rebelled against such treatment and invariably abai these animals positively re 6 splendid milk type fused to come in sufficient beat to be gotten with calf this shows conclusively that the tho cow requires and deserves a abort short period of rest from her labor every season we aim to give the co cow w about a three or four months rest out of every sea seal n feeding and caring for her with a aview lew to intensive dairying trying da the of the year this not only enables the cow to do her best beat while being milked but yields us greater re turne turns tor or the time and tabor labor expended in handling her and her dairy products of course the same rule will not apply to each individual member of the herd berd as some can be dried up with very little effort while som will milk right up to the time they drop their calf wt in either case we discontinue feed tos ing those rations which are conducive conda lve Ive to a profuse milk flow for from two to tour four months before calving time and to far we have always been successful in drying up any cow in time to allow her a good rest before it was wits necessary essry to begin milking her agal t TWO GREAT DAIRY PROBLEMS success of dairyman depends on an his hl ability to cape with labor and feeding questions Quee tlona T the h 9 d dairy a fry f farmer ar mar baa has two great problem problems confronting him at alt time times namely the labor and the feeding problems hie his depends largely on his ability to cope with them and with the feeding problem his cowa cows are in a measure mea eure machine machines through which raw posts and are turned out aa as finished product products tho the quality of which are ard determined by the individual cow if it the raw material in 1 not balanced the result may be fat tat on the tb cowa cows back luste adof ot milk in the pall it may mal mean biesh from the cowa body to make milk or a wante of maaria altogether if it not supplied in the mchane dis dl ita its work and the th cow goes 1 Z far too maa many dairymen ork on the assumption that if it their cow cows are fed all they will eat or clean cleas up nicely of boeda Ws affording af fordin variety they am re doing their beet best the question of eed feed composition should reelie morel Lh ought A roan man may easily teed feed unbalanced nr ra tlona that limit will waste enough material for of which he tuu has tw to pay high price prices to make his bi bus fuess unprofitable even onder under other otherwise vise favorable faro faTo rable rabla condition conditions wu of silo the allo silo must not be too larie large the size 1 should alvay always be determined by the number of cattle or sheep to be fed As silage la in a moist feed that oon awn decays when hn exposed to the air it must be taken off systematically from the top at least two inches should ba t removed remove 1 dally daily lavace be the silo llo should not be built oat cut of kropar proportion to the dumber number of animals to be b fed cow test the cow test it association will but not eake make the milk your cow cows are giving any a richer but it will make the amoun of botler butter tat at you gather rom lay toy to day greater if it you follow the edvice it given sir you |