Show am COW freshening IN FALL FAVORED conditions are more favorable for heavy milking cows which freshen in the fall make better production records than cows cow which freshen at other seasons because conditions are more uniform for the fall cowx cowa while they are milking heavily according to C L blackman of the animal bus husbandry bandry department of the college of agriculture of the ohio state university not only are the feeding conditions uniform through the period of heaviest milking blackman points out but toward the end 0 of f the lactation period the fall cows are turned out on green posture pasture and receive an extra stimulus to their milk flow when the flies and dry pastures pasture of summer occur these cows are giving so little milk anyhow that these difficulties dif lIcul ties do not seriously affect their total milk production for the season since fall freshening cows produce more mil milk k every possible mean should be taken to fat them for fresh ening says blackman often cows cowe running dry toward the end of the pasture season area are allowed to stay out in some back pasture very late and as a result come into the barn late and in low flesh while this practice may temporarily save feed and labor in the long run it Is uneconomical I 1 dry cows should be carefully watched from now on and should receive extra feed either grain or roughage or both sufficient to get them to in good flesh at freshening time they should be stabled as soon as the milking herd and not unnecessarily ex exposed during the frosty nights or cold storms |