The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-26
FEED FOR MILK.
High Feeding Necessary to Produce Bel
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High Feeding Necessary to Produce Best
Results.
A cow can not make milk without
food 10 do it from; at least not very
long and not in full quantity. II we
are keeping milch cows for their milk
and that is supposed to be the object
we must enable them to make the milk.
The cow is machine that grinds grain
and hay and grass into products Of
greater value than they are themselves,
and she will do it if she is good COW.
While we do not for obvious reasons adj
wise forcing. we do advise feeding TO the
highest degree consistent with safety to
the COW. There is no sacrifice in SO
doing. It is simply feeding cents and
finding dollars Mt the udder. In winter
especially should the feeding be liberal
and the general care unexceptional. Il
is the winter dairy that brings in the
money, If it is rightly managed. It
is the summer dairy that brings in
but little. But liberal feeding even
in summer pays. How the feeding
shall be done. that is, of what it
shall consist. will somewhat depend
upon circumstances. In times past we
have referred to the circumstances
which will determine very largely what
we shall feed Every farmer and dairy
man can feed cut feed. or at least ought
to be able to do SO, and that is desirable.
In feeding in the dairy one thing should
be kept prominently in view, supply
of moisture. This is where ensilage
comes in SO handy and bencfcially. Tn
questionably ensilaged food is of itself
the best thing of the kind that we can
find, though as our readers know. we
have always had doubts as to whether.
considering the cost roots would not
give as good, If not better. results. OF
one thing we feel very sure, and that is
that liberal feeding of roots will give
excellent satisfaction. Continuous dry
feeding is bad with any animal. more
especially if the food is Of the fat form
ing varieties The bone and muscle
forming foods contain more moisture;
and are, or should be, the main foods
in the dairy. For instance, there is
no better single food than oil meal.
Within fifty miles of Chicago there is an
extensive dairy in which large quanti-
ties OF oil meal are fed. This dairyman
is SO situated that he can obtain the
meal at the lowest market rate. and
perhapssit is as cheap to him, all things
considered. as any thing he could feed.
but many are not thus favorably situ-
ated. and to some it might be very M
profitable to buy and feed oil meal.
What shall they feed? Well, there may
be circumstances that would warrant
the exclusive feeding of corn-meal and
hay, though we can hardly conceive OF
their existence. Mill stuffs are nearly
always to be had. Oats, barley and
bran can be had on almost every farm,
though, as we have sometimes before
said, the new processes of making -four
have greatly lesscned the value Of
bran. But good bran is q capital food
for the cow. In word. the dairyman
must feed what he has or can profitably
obtain. keeping in view the rule already
stated that moisture and the bone and
muscle forming foods are what are to be
relied upon as food for the cow in order
to produce the most satisfactory re-
sults.-Western Rural.