Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-06-01
THE DAIRY.
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4 healthy mich COW in full flow of milk
will drink and requires 60 to 100 pounds of
water per day. 1t is utterly impossible to
get COW to take one-half Or even one
fourth of this amount of ice water. nor
will she drink the ice water or cold water
with any regularity.
There are four main reasons why most
at TIE dairy farmers make SO little money
xt.sm their COWS. First, poor cows, ma
CHRIST Aat are not calculated for the bus
mess; second, summer dairying, making
milk when it is the cheapest and letting
the cows go dry when it is dearest; third,
. refusing to learn how to produce cheap
God, requiring three acres of pasture and
'twc Of meadow in ordinary season to keep
q cow ayear, besides the grain she con-
,sumes; fourth. refusing to believe they
must feed wisely aud strongly ii, they
would make COW yield her best profit.
The man who keeps three cows to do
the work of one, has no business to expect
oven O hired mans wages for the time he
puts in.
If we we're asked to name the four prin-
ciples of success in dairy farming, they
would be, good dairy cows to start with,
winter dairying, cheap food, and plenty OF
It. The cap sheaf is man who has
brains enough to know that he needs
knowledge, and who is wise enough TO
Y2se losses In farming do not come so
often from lack of knowledge as from fall
ure TO practice what is known to be the
approved method. Every farmer knows
why it pays to sprinkle little plas-
ter over the manure in his stables every
dav, vet few farmers do it. Every one
knows the value of dry earth in the hem
house, but how many fail to provide it!
Every farmer knows that the fertilizing
matter in the liquid excrements Of the ami
mails is already dissolved and ready Tor
plant food, and yet how many stand by
and see it soak into the ground under the
stable all the time, burying dollar after
dollar MS winters pass away?
a. correspondent writes in favor Of
warming water for mich COWS as follows
"My men. during mild day, with the
thermometer at forty-five degrees, con
-cluded it was not necessary to temper thu
water for the cows, consequently falling
off Of one-fifth of milk in quantity. The.
are now convinced"
Pumpkins for cows have the best etfec
when fed before very cold weather, TO
there is less absorption of animal heat t!
warm the mass of forty or fifty pound
that d COW will take into her stomach.
II ought to be settled beyond dispute tina
il pays to provide good shelter for all tn
stock of the farm. The surest plan is o
far as possible to provide for this ahea
of the time when it may be wanted.
The water which dairy cows drink,
impure, will spread it's impurity to the
milk, and the quantity and quality of tn
food also makesits influence felt upon tn
quantity and quality of the milk.
A series of experiments conducted b
prof. Roberts, of Cornell, last winter, re
suited in saving fourteen per cent. of Il
food consumed in the dairy by warmin
The water to eighty degrees. Several rel
able dairymen claim there there is not on
q saving of food but On increase OF twent,
five per cent. in the yield OF milk.
Uoa1tTs Ddaryna:o.