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Show PICKED UP IN THE COWYARD Kindness Is Relished by Stock More Than Most Succulent Feed Salt Is Absolutely Essential. It is expensive to let a cow fail ir her milk because of the lack of propel feed. In feeding a milch cow a corn ra tion, reduce the ration at first indication indi-cation of fattening. In keeping cows never be withoul clover. It is one of the foods essen tial to good dairying. Better run a dairy without a dog than have one that is irritable to the cows. Many kicking cows are caused by the dogs nipping at their heels. Kindness is one of the cheapest and best rations you can feed your stock. Jersey Cattle on Pasture. They relish it more than the most sue culent thing you can put before them Unless you are willing to give time and attention to valuable stock, don't be too anxious to acquire such. Remember, Re-member, however, that any animal must have rational treatment to give good results. While fodder, when given out ol doors, should be fed in feed racks and not on the ground, it is imperative for the ground surrounding the racks to slope away in all directions and often it would be better still if tile drained. To keep a bull good-natured he should be raised with the other stock, allowed to run in a paddock where he can see the rest of the herd. With this treatment he will seldom become cross. Do you keep plenty of sal? whert your live stock can get at it all the time? Remember that this is absolutely abso-lutely essential to good health in a horse, cow, hog or sheep, as in a human being. What kind of water do your milch cows drink? Remember that a big proportion of the water they drink is converted . into milk, and therefore ought to be wholesome. The best milking pail is the one so constructed as to reduce to a minimum mini-mum the amount of dirt falling into the milk during the process of milking. milk-ing. The small top pail may have some objections, but its advantages are so in evidence that it is rapidly being adopted by our most prominent dairymen. |