Show VACATION FOR COW FOUND PROFI profitable TABa experiments have shown beyond a reasonable doubt that it does not pay to milk a cow continuously right up to the day of her freshening almost any good cow can give milk right up to the day her calf Is ie born but it Is a better and more practice to dry her up several weeks before this thin this rest that the cow sets gets before her calf comes enables her to produce much more milk after freshening and puts her in a good strong condition to withstand the strain of a 8 heavy milking period without so 0 o much danger of sickness and weakening of her constitutional vigor continuous milking up to freshening time undoubtedly tends to reduce a cows productive life generally it pays to dry up op a bew from six to ten weeks before her calf Is expected to be born some heavy producing cows are not easy to dry up but it Is always possible to dry a cow up a period of from two to three weeks by cutti nit down on the amount of grain or meal teed feed and green feed and by milking her less frequently and by falling failing to remove all the milk from her udder do this gradually and get the milk ings farther and farther apart until she Is giving only a quart or two of milk dally daily As soon as an a cow Is dry she should be given all the rough feeds she needs to get her in good sappy condition before calving it Is not necessity necess iry or advisable to feed a dry cow cov heavily on grain or meal feeds A cow should be fat but not overly fat when her calf cornes comes do not let a cow go too long after calving it does not pay it Is recommended that a cow be bred between one and four months after calving failure to breed a cow promptly results in financial loss and in some cases long delayed breeding Is thought to result in the cows becoming barren F R edwards animal husbandman georgia experiment station |