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Show Oil Meal for Dairy Cii i, There scorns to be a good deal of misapprehension as to tho effect of feeding oil meal to dairy cows, says tho woll known writer on economic farm subjects, A. L. Crosby, in National Na-tional Stockman. Some think it will produce abortion, or will ruin tho butter, but-ter, or do various other things to tho injury of the cows or their product. Oil meal is made from flaxseed which is ground and the oil pressed out, leaving as residue a hard cake; this is reground and is then the oil meal or linseed meal of commerce. In tho old j process oil meal there is still from G to , S per, cent of oil, but ihis quantity is ; not largo enough to injure cows when ; they are fed very liberally with it. In j fact it is this oil that makes the old ; process meal so desirable as a feeding j stuff in comparison with tho now process pro-cess meal, from which the oil is nearly j ull extracted. Ono effect of feeding ! oil meal is to keep tho animal's bowels ; in good condition, and this Is just what we must do in tho case of cows about i to calve. It is at the same time a food j containing all the clement needed by the cow lo grow the calf to perfection, I and when delivery takes place there is less danger of retention of the placenta. : garget or that most divaded of all ; diseases, milk fever. I have fed my j cows till winter with a liberal feed of j oil meal twice a day, and the last one t of toe herd calved to-day. I have j h-id no trouble whatever with cows at I calving time or after, and I can eon A- ; dent ly advise dairymen to use oil meal : (old process) as a part of their ration. I notice an inquiry in the Stockman of i March ;". from M. S. '.-. ot Beallsville, l'a . who wauls to know if oil meal : will produce gure,t. lie says ho feeds from a pint und a half to two pints a : day to each cow. 1 have fed from j three to live quarts a day to my eows j till winter, and as said above have had . r.o pirget lo contend wiui, so M. S. '.. ' must look for some other can mi for his, two cases of garget. i |
