Show FEED COWS BEFORE CALVING this preparation has much to do with amount of milk and butterfat cow produces the proper time to begin feeding a dairy cow Is six sir or eight weeks before calving and practical dairymen agree that this preparation has more to do da with the amount of milk and butterfat which a cow produces during the tha lactation period than does the feeding during any other period for cows calving during the summer or early fall most dairymen like to have a small pasture away from the herd but with an abundance of grass and in addition they like to feed a suitable grain mixture nl sture corn com silage with clover or alfalfa hay and a limited grain ration of three parts parti ground oats two parts of bran and one part of oil meal Is especially good for cows calving during winter or early spring after calving the cows should be brought slowly up to tall fall feed and thereby steadily to a higher production |