Milford News | 1928-08-03 | Page 5 | Dairy Hints

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I Dairy Hints -CHOOOOOKK0-0-0-CK0 i More cows are In cow testing associations asso-ciations than ever before. Milk cows cannot produce their maximum amount of milk when they have to drink ice water. To produce a large amount of milk, a cow must drink a large nmount of water. Experiments at the South Dakota State college experiment station Indl- j cate that self-feeders are not economical econom-ical for dairy calves. The calves eat too much of the high protein foed and not enough of the roughage. As soon as any whole oats Is noticed In the manure It Is time that the oats : be ground for calves. I PleDty of clean drinking water where cows can get It easily will do a lot toward making them produce all the milk they can. Skim milk from a well-adjusted separator sep-arator will not test over .02 of one per cent. Separators that allow as much as .05 of one per cent of butter fat to I go through the skim milk ppuut aeed attention.