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Show Give cows plenty of salt. Keep 1 before them at all times. It is usually a question whether or not it is advisable to feed grain to cows on pasture. The good dairy cow usually is wide in the forehead, the face dished between be-tween the eyes, with a strong under jaw. Salt the butter only enough to keep it. Salt increases the weight but little and too much spoils the quality of the butter. Fence breakers are educated by poor fences but having poor feed inside the pasture and good feed just outside is the best educator. Often the only difference between a gentle cow and a kicker is that the first had a little handling while a heifer, and the other didn't. I Use tile best grade of oil you can ' buy for the separator. The difference in cost is little but the difference in satisfaction is a great deal. The men who suffer least during the dry season are the dairy farmers. They always have an income, for there is always al-ways some crop that can be fed profitably profit-ably to the cows. Wherever you find a we'l ke;it farm you will find the grain raised on it is fed to stork right, on the place. Farmers Far-mers are fast finding out that the best paying stock is dairy cows. Watch the cow that, conies in fresh in good pasture. It is just at this time of the year that many of the best nvin-ers nvin-ers are spoiled or partly spoiled, iiori't ncf-'U-ct them a single hour. Many turn the cows out when the first s.ears of grass come. Better w;:i: until they can got a good bite. Whe:i the cows do not get enough grass thc-v will go huLgry hefors eating dry fet-o. |