Show Spring Freshened Cows Are Not Meeting Favor Custom sa says sas s Freshen Freshmen your our cows In the time spring Her cr arguments are arc Feed Is cheap in the spring cows will go out on luxuriant pastures take care of themselves pro produce uce a n lot of milk milk and all their owners need to do doIs doIs doIs Is to milk them and make money Custom argues that it costs too much to feed cows and raise calves during the winter months and that expensively equipped barns ventilating lug fug systems etc are necessary where winter dalr dairying is followed folIo These rhese are all nIl the arguments rust custom om advances and she refuses to listen to I the many objections to spring and summer dairying a few of which arens are areas areas as ns follows Although it Is true that It Is much cheaper to produce milk In April May ay and June so Is it true that the price secured for milk Jn In those months Is extremely low not low not once in a while but always Spring-freshened Spring cows have only three good months to work Jul July and August bring droughts dry pastures heat files flies and busy har bar vest I If there are any worse factors for turning cows dry they are not readily apparent These factors do turn cows cons dry rob them of flesh and condition and they are largely accountable accountable accountable account account- able for the very low a average production production productIon tion of milk mille Spring-freshened Spring cows are dry when fall comes along with high prices for milk and its products or they are so nearly dry that all aB that can be afforded afforded af af- forded Is just to winter them as ns cheaply cheap cheap- ly Iy as aa possible and look hook forward to spring freshening when they will again give a lot of milk for three months when milk Is cheapest |