Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-19
Agricultural.
The Time for Selling Mich Cows

Those who have not commenced-( August
2Oth)-soilihg mich COWS with c1rn or fod-
der, or grass, should do at once. The flow
of milk should be kept up through The month
OF August, and until time for turning into
afterfeed. Many have parts OF meadow lands
broken, and planted TO corn, and will net be
able to turn In cattle until the corn crop is
harvested. This will make it SO late for the
aftermath to be consumed, that if cows get
no extra iced now and up 10 that time, con-
siderable loss will be had in allowing the
cove to shrink. The month OF August, and
first part of September, is usually hot and
dry, ana grass 10 pastures fails. when the
flow of milk is checked-even for short
time-it is difficult to bring the yield up
again, even with abundant food. This will
have been observed by every one who has had
the care of stock.
We have seen a slow and awkward mixer,
in few days materially injure COW for
milk, and 60 much SO, that hen afterwards
milked by a first rate hand, she could rot be
brought back again to the original standard
IN several weeks. 1t Is important that mich
cows have an abundance of fresh and nutri-
tious food. The tall, rank grass in pastures,
that has been rejected, is now dry, and is in
capable of producing the best quality of milk,
to say nothing OF the decrease In quantity by
compelling the COW to consume It. Next to
green CAoScHs tucIo Is 10 green lOOu tNat pro-
duces better results In milk than corn fodder
1t should be cut in the morning aud allowed
to wilt, and then fed IN the stable. When
fed IN this way, every animal gets its share,
the food Is not trampled upon, and wasted
and master COWS have no chance TO IN ure the
underlings, as often happens when out door
feeding is resorted to.
Cows fed in stable do not seem 20 be SO un-
easy and troublesome, as they sometimes are
when led IN the field. If feeding but once
day is determined upon, the better time is to
put them In the stalls between three and four
O'Clock, P. NJ. The feed of course, should
have been deposited In the boxes or alley pre-
viously, go that sufficient time will be had for
feeding before milking. When ready for the
pail, the animals are quiet, good natured, and
will give their milk more freely than when
fed after milking, as is practiced by some.
Many think great saving is made by feed
ing aftermath in the stable. There is not
shat waste of feed, results from turning
stock upon meadows, when they trample down
and destroy, often, quite as much as they eat.
There is some labor and Inconvenience, in
feeding aftermath in the stall, and yet, when
the grass 10 good, q moving machine will soon
cut enough for largo stock. Those that
have patches of meadow lands ploughed and
put to corn aud other crops, or where it is
season, will do we'll to adopt the plan of cul
turing and soiling cows in the stable.
We are not sure but meadows would be i'm
proved, by feeding the afterfeed in this way,
since the tread of cattle upon the lands would
be avoided, and the grass IN patches would
not be taken down SO close, and roots of tim
othy pulled up, sometimes happens when
stock is turned upon the aftermath, a..
OF couree meadows, to be managed proper
ly, ought not to be pastured at all, and but
one crop taxen from the ground unless treated
regularly to top dressing. But this Is con-
sidered impracticable BY most of our dairy
farmers, who believe that more profit is real
lied by cropping the aftermath, than would
result, to the land by leaving it to decay for
the purpose of renovating the soil and fur
nishing food for the successive crops. If any
of our friends have made any tests in refer
ence to the comparative merits of moving
aftermath, rather than cropping it, as an i'm
provement for meadow lands, we should be
glad to hear from them.on the subject.-U1i-
CO Herald.