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Show METHOD FOR DRYING UP COW No Specific Rule for Such Work-Judgment Work-Judgment and Experience of Attendant Is Required. A cow should be dried off for six weeks before calving. It may take two weeks to dry her off, that depending depend-ing upon the persistency of milk flow. To dry off a cow the rich feed has to be removed and the cow allowed to pasture short grass or eat hay. Some milk is left in the quarters at each milking at first; then a milking is omitted; then the milking is done every other day, and afterward only a little milk is taken, as seen to be necessary. There is no specific rule for such work, and it requires the best Judgment and experience of the attendant, at-tendant, i |