Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-02-01
WINTER FEEDING cows.

We find the following in the American
Stock Journal For winter feeding
good clover hay and corn fodder, meal
mixed with bran shorts, middlings or
CANAL (the three latter names being given
in different sections to nearly the same
article, and varying in different mills,
from a very rich to very poor teed,)
Meal from number Of varieties OF grain
will be found most healthy than from
any one kind. That from ludian corn,
will usually give large quantity of rich
milk at first, but in the most cases will
soon induce an excess of flesh or fat and
a corresponding decrease of milk. Many
valuable COWS have been rendered value
less for mixers by one seasons high feed
ing on Indian meal. Cotton seeds and
oil.meal will have much the same
effect. Sometimes good cows will show
an inclination to take on fat and increase
in milk on the commencement of excessive
feeding on rich feeds.
For a COW not in calf, or the first six
months she has gone with calf, four
quarts per day of c-half middlings, and
meal from equal quantities Of corn, and rye,
and oats. will be az much as the average
of COWS will bear and prove lasting and
profitable, it should be given on cut fod-
der, or cut hay, wet with hot water, so
as to slightly steam, and fed in two feeds
per day. Where roots can be raised
with profit they will be found healthy,
ard will keep up better flow of milk
then most other kinds of feed but they
should be fed with other kinds Wurzel
and beets will increase the quantity, but
will not improve the richness, though the
favor will be benefited Yellow carrots,
will give less increase in the quantity of
milk, but they will improve both the
quantity and quality of the butter, max
ing it finer favored and higher colored.
Roots fed in large quantities alone will
induce too large flow of milk at expense
of condition. One feed on roots aud
meal per day will prove better than either
alone. Miaalings of bran should be
omitted when feeding roots, as both are
loosening and may scour. Where there
is tendency to this, oatmeal is the best
fsod, and it may be better to scald it.
Regularity of feeding is of the greatest
importance for all animals aud is never
more SO than feeding cows; they should
have constant access to salt-rock salt is
the best, and Turks Island the best
substitute if they have it always before
them, they will never receive injury from
over-eating. They should be watered
often and with water not to cold the
better plan is to have such arrangements
as will give constant access to it, though
if regularity is observed, the animals
appetite will soon accommodate itself to
stated times. While the aim should be
to make cows eat all the hay or fodder
they can, they will fall much short of it
If they are allowed to waste, or given more
at once than they can eat clean in reason
able time. Feed oftener. and less at a
time, and they will eat much more in
the aggregate, and waste much less II
it is found tie supply given is too large
it should be removed as soon as the ami.
nal has become satisfied. as nothing des-
troycs the appetite sooner than rejected
food lying in the manger. For success.
full winter dairying, good. light, airy
und comfortable stable is indispensable
care should be taken to keep 1t clean and
we'll ventilated, guarding against currents
of cold air blowing on the cows, and
keeping their apartments too close and
hot Close, hot stables foster more dis.
eases than exposure to cold"