The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-03-06
THE DAIRY.

Let the COW into the grain bin. 4.
uratiyely speaking. She will turn the
oats and corn into dollars.
Roots are highly rclished by cows,
but that no faint may be impaired to
the milk it is best to feed them just
after milking.
Add little oil meal to the SKINNED
milk and you have good food for
calves. Calves have been raised on IL.
1t Is fed warm.
Production at the lowest possible
cost must be the rule in the dairy as
well as elsewhere. 1t is season of
depression and our only hope lies in
better and more economical methods.
1t is not expected that farmer will
calculate Ito nicely the value ri diff
ferent foods in the dairy. But he should
know enough, and ordinarily does, to
compound practical ration. Western
Rural.
If the cows milk is very blue in cold
weather. ii Is because the food that
should form rich milk and cream is used
up in maintaining animal heat: hence,
the policy Of sheltering animals as
much as possible in severe weather.
The dairy cow wants, first, not only
good feed and plenty of it, but wants
the feed that will make the most milk
and butter. Nor does she want the same
kind Of feeding all the year; she should
have her food changed occasionally,
thereby increasing her relish and thus
her capacity for taking in food.-Amer-
lean Dairyman.
A small COW with the right kind Of
machinery in her, writes correspond
ent Of the Rural New Yorker, can get
all the milk solids ont of a given
amount Of feed as we'll as big cow. But
II you have good, big cows and they
give you fair profit. keep them, but
breed them to the smallest dairy bull
you can find, and if the result is = more
concentrated COW, think you are the
gamer.
A number Of experienced dairymen,
discussing recently the value Of corn
meal as steady food for cows kept for
butter-making, concurred in regarding
1t as the best for that purpose, though
some would add to it portion OF wheat
bran. 1t was considered the safest food
and the best Of all for producing good
quality of butter, superior in flavor,
cOnsistence, color and texture.
"A correspondents of the Ohio Farmer
says that in starting in on any variety
Of feed, such as ensilage, grain, roots.
ETC., better portion the first foddering
out sparingly than too fushingly. We
all know how cattle will gorge them.
selves when they break into an in.
closure containing rank feed, or gain
access to stored provender. and they
will lj1AYfse gormandize, If their owner
is SO indiscreet as to excessively fodder
them.
The skilful feeder aims to feed SUI.
ficient corn fodder to furnish bulk t.
distend the stomachs as we'll as induce
the chewing of the cud, and then makes
up the rest of the ration of concentrated
grain. The aim should be to feed just
all the grain the COW can digest and as
simulate, and as some will make good
use of considerable more than others.
the feeder should study the peculiarities
OF each animal and guage the quantity
to suit the capacity Of each. When q
COW in full milk and good health is not
making use of all her food the excre.
ment will smell very offensive, and Q
slight decrease in one or all Of the in.
gradients OF its grain will save loss in
this direction. A. Putnam, in n. Z.
Farmer.