The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-12-06
FA1 RLEs3s.s "a. ADaxG.
WINTER FEEDING OF MILcH COWS.

the feeding OF mich COWS; and hrst-
Of winter feeding. OF course it must
be the utmost cleanliness. There
must be no stint. and for all those In
a full flow of milk. there must be
warm food. 1t Is quite extraordinary
what anseffect the temperature of the
food or drink has upon the lacteal Sc
cretion. Monthly nurses perfectly
understand that a woman who has re-
Gently become a mother, must be very
careful how she ventures upon chill
ing drinks; Tut farmers do not so
well understand how damaging it is to
drive freshly calved Cow into the
frosty air Of January, for a drink in
an icy brook. No milkmsn should
permit such barbarism. Warm shell
ter and warm slop three times a day,
with perhaps an hour Of exposure to
the sunshine at noon, constitute the
proper regimen for a COW ia the first
flush of her milk.
Water for milch COWS in Winter,
should have as nearly as possible the
temperature of the stable in which
they are kept-rather higher than
lower. IF water can be kept on the
flow within reach of every. cow, SO
much the better, and in the Well-ar
ranged recent dairy barns, this Is pro-
vided for The drier the food the
more water, of course, the animals
will require; but In whatever shape
food may be given, water at will, will
be of advantage, pos
Heavy. unctuous ground food, of
great fatteninr properties, Is by no
means so desirable as the lighter meals
which carry large admixture OF bran.
Bran itself makes an admirable con-
diment, so does buckwheat cOarsely
ground, and brewers grains, if Access
sible A little stirring in of bone
meal at intervals Of month or two,
will be desirable-mOre especially ii
the cows are fed largely upon roots.
a steaming apparatus is, L need
hardly say, an essential in anyscom-
plete milk dairy. There may be
question in regard to the steaming of
food for fattening cattle or for grow
ing stock, but for a herd of mich
cows there is no room for doubt. The
process, moreover, makes available
great mass of coarse material ID the
way of cOrnstlaks, pea-vlnes, etc,
which would be otherwise unservicea-
BILE. 10 v
With respect to hay for milk-giving
COWS nothing is worse than stout tim
othy, and if the seed be allowed to
form, it. is. but little better than rye
straw. Under any system of farming,
which looks to the health and good
keeping of cattle, it Is ruinOus to leave
timothy until it has taken on that
harsh why condition, which belongs
to its seed bearing state. but for
milk farmer such neglect is mOnstrous.
Indeed, think it may be laid down as
a general rule, in ordinary seasons,
that the milkman's haying should
commence a fortnight before the
grazer's, and close a fortnight earlier.
What he may lose IN weighthe will
gain in succulence, and it is this sue
culence which goes to the promotion
ofa quick flow of milk. Even the hay
which ost f,rmers are disposed to
condemn as 'fashy"-suchas rowen-
and which is certainly not adapted TO
the development Of muscle or TAT, Is
yet admirably suited to the wants of a
milk farmer. If timothy is grown,
and on milk farms. | think it should
be grown sparingly-it should be cut
when 1t is in the iuIluess Of its purple
bloom, and it Is far better that it be
cut earlier than later. Red-top-
(hefds grass in the naming of many,)
/ makes a good hay for milk, if cut in
its bloom; the June grass from old
meadows is even better; and best OF
all--if judiclously cured-is clover.
Given before this, if it were enough
known to warrant che mention, L
should name Lucerne; but doubt,
pot yet well settled in regard to its
hardness in the American climate,
forbids unqualified commentator. y
Donald g. Mitchell
ABOUT PLOws.
1t is frequently the case that far
mer will buy two ploWs of the same
ma Ike and pattern. and one will prove
| to be much easier running and hold
| ing pillow than the other Why? 1t
may be that the castings are warped
and do not fit together well; but far
more generally, Because the ire in
| the two mOl0boards s OF of the same
temper-the pillow with the softest
moldbOard being the poorest of the
| two. The furrow adkering more close
| ly to the soft moldboard, makes the
1 draft of the plow heavier, and likewise
/ lulls the pillow around to the right,
away from the land. therefore making
| it run unsteady. As an illustration,
| take two pleasure sleighs, the one
having on hard cast shoes, and the
other soft cast shoes When these
two sleighs run over piece of bare
GROUND, the one with soft shoes draws
very much the han dest, and has the
most side draft. 1t is quite difficult
/ fnr f,,rnacnnen to make their mold