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Show MILK COW THREE TIMES A DAY It Pays, According to Results Secured by Dairymen and Owners of Large Herds. Does it pay to milk a cow three times a day? Dairymen and owners of large herds say so. They can. and do. produce the proofs, too, Unit milking milk-ing their cows this often Is a very profitable practice. To obtain the best results from your cow. or cows, health nnd comfort must necessarily be considered carefully. care-fully. The modern farmer Is making rapid progress In regard to the sanitary sani-tary conditions of his barns and dairy stables, and learning also many Improved Im-proved met hods of feeding. Yet a surprisingly large number of farmers do not see that the cow with a heavy, full udder, unrelieved. Is laboring 'igalnst big odds. The two indisputable benefits derived de-rived from milking three tlir.es every day are: A steady Increase In the nmount of milk product d. and a hlgh-t hlgh-t r percentage of butter fat In the milk. The first Is especially valuable to the pt rsons who feed Fkim-milk to the young slock. Danish dairymen have shown clearly that infrequent milking tends to make the lymphatic glands In the cow's udder become Inactive and sluggish, slug-gish, which Is the principal cause of the "drying up" stage, and proved thoroughly that when their cows were t" ' - 1 j ; '-'' - A Prize Winning Jersey. milked frequently It caused these glands to be enlivened and stimulated, with tho result that more and better milk was drawn from the cows, and the milking period was lengthened in nearly every instance. The feed question Is solved, too. Keep a high-class breed of cows, and whatever expenses are Incurred by extra ex-tra feed will be overbalanced by a gain. The Holsteln, Jersey and Ayrshire Ayr-shire breeds are considered the best for dairy purposes. Milk three times daily for a month and compare the results with this month, (live the cow a square deal and you II be a wiser, w ealthier farmer farm-er for the experiment. |