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Show If the cows lack salt, you'll have churning troubles. A grade cow of inferior breeding is not qualified to drop a good calf. Selection is the foundation upon which a good dairy herd must be built. - The farmer seldom goes wrong when he follows the path of the good dairy cow. ' The unclean separator on the farm is often the cause of poor butter in the market. It Is cheaper to warm the drinking water than to let the cow do It with 60-cent corn. A good cow with poor management is little better than a poor cow with no management. The comfortable cow requires less feed than one that must struggle against discomfort. ' The beauty of the dairy is that if It is well managed it brings a profit every day in the year. If cream is raised by pan-setting and the milk freezes the loss will soon be large enough to pay for a cream separator. If you carry over a few feet of silage sil-age next spring you have no cause to fear dry and short pastures later In the summer. An increase in feed will show in increase of milk, but there will be no gain in richness, for richness cannot be fed Into milk. After providing plenty of windows and a good system of ventilation, the next thing to put In the cow stable Is a coat of whitewash. The amount of food that will put $1 worth of fat on a steer will make a lot more than $1 worth of butter fat If fed to a good cow. Overworking of butter after it has "come" causes it to become salvy. Stop . the churn when the butter gathers In lumps about the size of a pea. Beauty and uniformity in the dairy cow may not add much to the milk yield, but they certainly add value I when it comes to sellinr ihe stock. |
