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Show A man's dairy herd will be Just what bis Ideas of a dairy berd are. Every instant that milk stands In the stable It gathers contamination. Good butter always brings good prices, and there Is no excuse for producing any other kind. Milk should never be exposed to foul air In the cow stable or In dirty tanks before It Is delivered to tbe cresmery. Grain feeds are more digestible when ground than when fed whole. Hence tbe cows will make better use of ground grain. One Job that will pay for Itself In one season is tbe putting up of a handy, convenient milk bouie before spring work crowds. A silage is a great milk-making food, and fortunate Is the farmer with ewes who can give them a light feed of silage twice a day.- It Is almost Impossible to restore the flow of milk to tbe original amount after It Is once allowed to run down for lack of feed. It Is as Impossible to estimate tbe productiveness and value of a cow as It Is to guess the exact number of bushels of cora a certain field will yield. A good cow will make more money than any other farm animal, and the money so realised does tbe farmer more good than tbat realised from any other animal. No matter what the changes In temperature In the atmosphere may be the temperature of cream for churning must be kept about tbe same winter and summer. A l.OOOpound dairy cow requires seven-tenths pound of digestible protein, pro-tein, seven pounds of digestible carbohydrates, car-bohydrates, and one-tenth pound of digestible fat for maialeaaace. |