The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-02-07
FORCING COWS.
The Feed Required to Secure Album.
dant Flow of MIX.

dant Flow of Milk.
In answer to correspondent we will
say that in feeding for milk it should
always be remembered that the food
should consist of heterogeneous, carbon
aceous and mineral clements. The
system of the animal must be supplied
with what it needs to keep it in repair,
otherwise disease must result. Slop-fed
cows give milk in abundance, but the
bony and muscular system have nothing
to sustain them, and hence they will be
found in time to be in dreadful condi-
ton, their tails dropping off, and the
cows covered with sores. Undoubtedly
the rage in certain quarters for ensilage
will result disastrously. 1t certainly
will whenever ensilage is fed in
too large quantities. 1t is not an
evenly-balanced food, and while some
would be beneficial, great deal
would be injurious. But the inn
mediate effect of feeding ensilage
unquestionably is an increased flow OF
milk, and many will look no fGrther
than that, and feed it to excess. Pro-
lessor Arnold says that COWS fed upon
ensilage do not do as well as when fed
on clover, wheat bran, oil cake. ETC.
Both in milk production and fat pro-
duction we must get rid OF the too.prev-
alent idea that there is but one object
to accomplished production of the
most of either as the case may be,
" >7ily regardless of everything else.
lac health and vigor of our cows is the
first thing to be sought. In a sense
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properly speaking that is the basis
Of successful milk production. We
may force our cows to give %
great deal more milk for the time
Being by feeding one sided food per.
haps, but it cannot last, and we may
lose both milk and COW. Heavy mixers
are peculiarly liable, too, to some of the
most fatal diseases to which cows are
liable. Mercedes, the champion butter
COW of the world died from milk fever,
Just the disease that such cows are par
ticularly susceptible to. And if we
increase this natural susceptibility by
starving one part of the system, we
place our COW right in the jaws of death
and hold her there.
A mich COW should have an active
circulation. There can not too much
blood pass through the udder. This
can not be secured unless the system is
vigorous. 1t can not be secured without
exercise. A few days ago we saw it
stated that gentleman at dairymen' 3
convention said COW did not need any
exercise, that all she had to do was to
keep still, and give milk. We can
hardly conceive how anybody with COM
mon experience could make such a mis-
take. Health is utterly out of the
question without some exercise. 1t is
lot uncommon to find the lack of exer-
Use to be the cause of disease among
cattle. This is especially true of bulls
which do not. as rule, have enough
exercise. Whenever an animal
is deprived of exercise we
may look out for trouble
sooner or later Professor Arnold, in a
recent speech said with reference to the
circulation that the best authorities
agreed that the fat was Immediately
carried to the blood vessels and assumed
the shape of cells, and from these again
passed into the milk ducts and mamary
glands, the latter being composed of an
immense number of cavities or cells
These are surrounded by blood vessels,
from which the protean of the milk ex-
udes, and is absorbed into the interior
of the cells through small tubes. These
were the fat globules found in cream.
These cells were analogous to rennet
cells. We were, however, left in the
dark with regard to the development,
but the globules in the blood was the
only rational theory; but the decompo-
sition took place in the udder, and
where the separation was made Vest
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