The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-15
von,ng Up the Flow of Milk.

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hava tried this season dividing my pas
es TO follow a rotation in pasturing
- -, dairy cows. says Waldo F. Brown.
:. Co,,,ty1y Gentleman. | have three lots.
hat can pasture each ten days In the
- and allow it to stand unoccupied for
- DAYS have been surprised at the
..l+ and am enthusiastic in recommend
ing If. IhaVe never had my cows hoiu out
= their milk SO well, and although we are
now entering our fourth week OF dry and
,ntans9ly hot weather, my cows are still
in, a liberal quantity of milk, and much
-, than is usual az this time of the year.
rach time that l change them to fresh
-,ast,,ra 7 notice at once that the flow OF
milk increases.
Fem this one seasons experience should
osfimate that following this plan would in
o,aasa Inc quantity of milk from 10 to %
0a~ ca,t. | know that fences cost money,
mt have found that a plain wire fence,
III four wires and the posts eighty feet
onsrt turns cows perfectly if the wires are
sfanled to as trip of board two inches wide
and one inch thick, every ten feet, and TINS
Find of a fence can be built for about %
cents rod. All that is necessary to make
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and stretch the wire tight.
The next point in maintaining the now OF
,nilly is to proyide extra food to be used IN
case of drought. and for this purpose there is
Uofbinr better that sweet corn. For July
fseding it will be necessary to plant some
Of the early dwarf varieties, which are
snort and make quite stunted growth, out
as small as these appear they Will bear very
Close Dlanting, and will mature ears when
tba ro uvC 20 inchag aDar6. and
The hills eighteen inches. This will give over
! loo hills to the acre, and with three stalks
70 the hill and each stalk weighing half
Mound. would give over eight tons OF green
fead to the acre exclusive of the ears,
which with the husks will make nearly or
1uite another pound. make this estimate
from weighing stalks and ears from my own
plat to-day (Ju!y0:
Two things will be necessary for a good
WELD and early maturity of the crop; first,
rich land, and second early and thorough
cultivation The dairyman can have
plentv Of manure, and it will pay to use
plenty of it. for a second crop can be grown
on the land the same year, pumpkins, tur-
MOS OFF one is gardening crop Of
pickles, of millet can be sown, and even II
no second crop is raised, large per cent. of
the manure will be available for the next
year. In many localities the dairyman
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early corn, and get large prices for it. A
thousand dozen ears can be grown on an
acre. and as the fodder would be worth
more than the entire cost of growing the
crop. what you would get for the ears would
be clear profit 1t would only be necessary
4 to use the small dwarf variety for part of
4 the crop, and the Stowell or Mammoth sweet
4 corn will produce more than double the
4 feed, and will be about three weeks later. |
4 believe that either of these varieties are as
profitable to grow for feeding green to
either hogs OF cattle as field corn, as they
bear close planting, and many of the stalks
have two ears, and there is more blade and
less waste than from field corn.
am greatly in favor of breeding most
of the COWS to come in the fall-September
and October cow will give more milk
Il in a year, as she goes to fresh pasture just
"A at the period when she naturally begins to
shrink in her milk, and she gives the most
milk at the season when butter brings the
Il best price. All the work of the dairy
comes hard during the hot months, and the
more cows we can have dry then the BET
ter. After long experience with both
spring and fall calves l much prefer to raise
q the latter.