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Show H FIXE DATRYTXG MT5THODS IN" H dexmaric. H The aim of tho Danish farmer Is to Hj keep tho largest number of efficient H cows possible on a given area, a cow M to 214 acres or less. Enough young H stok Is raised to keep the herd sup- H plied with cow3. H From their feeding of oil cake and H meal and the stall feeding of green H crops, an Immense amount of manuro H of lino quality Is made, and with thoir H careful methods of husbanding tho H solids In a covered manure pit and the H liquids in a cistern, and applying in H small quantities at frequent Intervals H during the rotation, the producing H power of their land is increasing from H year to year. H Tho prico of cows Is from 5S0 to H $90. Only tho best heifers arc raised H and with the record of tho dam and H the quality of tho sire known, their H selection is comparatively simple Hl The soiling crops used are rye, oats H and peas, oats and vetch and clover H and grass. These aro hauled to tho H barn and fed green, or pasturod off H by tethering the cows along the edge. H In the cool European countries the H soiling season of the crop Is much longer. Tho cows aro acldnm turned to pasturo In Denmark, but tcthorcd by means of a halter on tho head and a rope or chain twelve- to twenty feet long, which Is attached to a ton-Inch pin driven Into the ground. Tho cows are moved flvo times a day from thrco to six feet depending upon the amount of food. Thus tho crops aro grazed off even whon two or thrco feet high without wasto from tramping. ThiB is the Dane's chief point of economy in the summer feed. Practically no grain is fed while tho cows aro on grass. A few dairymen dairy-men feed a little oil cake to tholr best milkers. Water Is hauled twice a day to tho tethered cows. Many small dairymen tako tho cows to tho Btablo to bo milked throo times a day. They are stabled all winter, fed nil tho etraw they will cat and on tho average of four pounds of hay, -10 to 100 pounds of roots and about six pounds of grain per day, consisting of oil cako, bran, barley and oats. An even flow of milk is required tho year around and most of tho cowa freshen from September to May. |