Show DRYING UP THE COW it is sometimes clai claimed ried by our various dairymen in speaking of their cows that it was impossible to iry dry this particular cow up generally a cow milking I 1 extremely well at the close of her lactation period is of course an indication that she is a good cow but df that is the lease case that is no excuse for the herdsman not drying her up many high producing cos conis of the world with good herdsman have little trouble in performing the task if it is gone at properly if the cow is hard to dry off the first to do is to change the feed if she is on pasture getting good green feed lock her up in a dry fe feed lot for a few days take her green feed away from her and milk her at irregular intervals if in tho winter when th the e cows are in the barn all the time the first thing to do is to take away 1 the he grain change the hay ration from alfalfa to timothy or some other food that is not so palatable and milk at irregular intervals ter vals with cows that are only producing about ten tell pounds of milk per day it is not necessary generally to do anything with them except stop milking them or milk at irregular intervals with cows that are producing as much as from fifteen to 0 twenty pounds a day either of the first methods mentioned imay may be employed and should zet get ivery very satisfactory results |