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Show 000000000X000000000IOOOO Dairy Notes OOOOOiWXXWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Concrete makes a good dairy stable floor. A good milking goat gives about two quarts a day. An equally good cow will give at least ten quarts. A goat will usually milk six to seven months. A parasite in the dairy business Is the man who keeps an underfed herd of cows, feeds his family butter substitutes sub-stitutes and complains about the low price of butter. A fair milk production for a mature ma-ture Holsteln cow is 40 to 45 pounds a day. The cost of feed at present prices will be around 40 cents per day. If feed Is all purchased at re-tall re-tall the cost may be higher. Don't feed a cow too much protein. It causes udder troubles and difficulties difficul-ties in breeding. . Don't expect full palls from half-fllled half-fllled cows. Sunshine and exercl.se make healthy cows, but feed Is nece. sary to make a healthy cow pay. More bulls (cows, too) thnn you "Ul.; wink die from eatiug iimII.s tie, in feed. In Pennsylvania, feed manufacturers are not allowed to use winj to fasten tugs to tVed bag-, Just WfcawM of this danger. |