The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-10-01
THE DAIRY.
The cows should have salt quite
frequently while on green feed.

The cows should have salt quite
frequently while on green feed.
Every dairyman should be pre-
pared to feed green grass or corn
fodder in the stable night and
morning, as soon as the pasture be-
gins to fail.
Cows inherit the propensity to
give large or small quantities of
milk, but still the quantity will be
varied greatly by the treatment to
which they are objected.
All things considered, the larg-
est flow of milk is the most profita-
BILE, unless it is secured at too great
expense; and reason must be used
here as in all other things.
There are 2,4O0 stables of cows
in New York, the milk of which is
sold in the city, and these cows,
from the time they enter the sta
bles until no longer able to give
milk, never see grass.
When the season of heated
weather and pestiferous flies is.at
hand, and the COWS should he
turned into fields where there is
shade, which will provide protec-
ton, to a g'eat extent, from both
of these.
A square, symmetrical COW, says
the Dairy World, is not always the
best dairy cow. The mixer is rath-
er wedge-shapeG, as seen from be-
fore, and has plenty of belly, with
great hips and. thighs.
1t is poor economy to allow the
cows to fail in milk for want of a
little grain, or other feed, in addi-
tion to their pasture. The largest
steady flow of milk which can be
obtained by a reasonable outlay of
feed is always the most profitable.
Regularity in feeding and milk
ing is an important consideration
in providing for the comfort of the
COWS. If fed at irregular hours
they are in alternate conditions of
hunger and surfeit, and cows soon
learn to let down their milk at GER
tain hours, and if not MIXED then,
they often suffer greatly when in
full milk.
Time is required to demonstrate
the real value of COW. Some COWS
promise extremely well when in the
flush OF milk, but go dry so long
and become so trlfling in many
ways before they have been in
milk five months, that they are not
worth their feed. The real test of
good COW is her performance after
the first three or four months in
milk.
The constituents of milk have
not ICONS ant ratio to each other"
A writer in an exchange says
that he has known a COW, usually
yielding milk rich in fat, to give
milk with a reduction of so per
cent. in her cream after being wor-
ried by a dog, This is only anoth-
er argument, and with a tangible
reason, for not worrying the cows
in any way, and especially with
dogs.
No expense is too great which
will bring an adequate return on
the farm or in the dairy. For ordi-
nary purposes the highest priced
COW is generally, hut not always, the
best. Pedigree is full of promise,
but in itself will not give milk, or
make butter. That is an individ-
ual concern, and not alone a matter
of history, and can only be fully
demonstrated by an individual milk
test.
Farmers often value a COW more
for her fine calves than for her
dairy qualities. This is eminently
proper, as a good calf is more valua-
BILE to them to raise into a fine
steer than the products of the milk.
The dairyman, though, has differ
ent object in view, and keeps the
cows for their milk only. 1t is then
necessary that these cows give q
liberal quantity of rich milk, and
through an extended period, to
meet the dairyman's requirements.