The National tribune., 1891-01-01
DAIRY HINTa

! dress them as often as once a month from now
till Spring.
DAIRY HINTA
With mill feed selling at too high price.
those who have ensilage this Winter will ap-
preciate the silo more than ever. One great
advantage ensilage has over dry corn and fOd-
der is that it is succulent, easily mastcated and
easily digested. Clever hay, ensilage and a
little linseed meal or bran will keep the cows
in fine condition, and they will give paying
| yield, If they good cows. GOOD cows
are the only kind that are profitable; If you
/ have ten cows seven Of which are good ones
and three are poor ones, sell the three and give
| the feed the ten would have eaten to the seven
/ good ones. There is a big loss in feeding poor
cows, there is a big loss in feeding poor feed,
| but when we feed poor feed to poor COWS the
result is discouraging.
Sometimes COWS are not considered good
ones merely because they are not fed enough
/ to show their real working capacity. 1t pays
to experiment little and see how much the
cows will eat. Some experiment in the wrong
| direction, and sec how little they can feed.
| The big eater Is not always the best paying cow
! in the dairy she may put most Of her feed
into beef. Many daiTymen go on, year after
/ year, keeping poor cows merely because they
| breed to the wrong kind Of bull Common
| cows bred 10 good dairy bull are sure to have
calves that will be better than their dams.
| Grading up cannot be well done by breeding to
1 q grade bull. In cOw-feeding for dairy pur-
| poses we should discriminate little; butter
/ cows and milk cows require different kind of
ration. For butter we want less milk, but
/ want il richer than if we were selling milk. In
feeding for butter we should increase the corn
meal and decrease the bran; for milk we
should do just the reverse increase the bran.
But when we sell milk according to the per
cent. Of butter fat in it we should feed the but
ter ration.
Great injustice is done by ereameries that
| pay for milk by weight without regard to
| quality. When this is done the patrons who
send good milk to the creamery help to sup
i port tGbse who send poor milk. All milk
should be tested, and each patron paid accord
/ ing to the amount Of butter fat in his milk {;
/ then the good feeders OF good COWS would be
encouraged. In the dairy business, in order to
/ be successful, we must watch everything
| closely; we may lose much by little careless
| ness. We may, for instance, neglect to give the
/ cows salt for week or two, then let them eat
/ too much at once; we may increase their feed
/ too suddenly and derange their digestion we
may let them suffer occasionally for water we
may feed them injudieiously Just before calving
! or just after; in fact, there are a great many
/ ways by which we may reduce or wipe out en-
| tirely our profit.
No dairymsn does everything just right, for
no man is perfect, bnt the one who studies his
business and comes the nearest to doing things
right is the one who makes the most money.
| We al have room for improvement, and every
year should see some change for the better in
our dairying. We ought TO use the best dairy
| appliances that We can get good portable
| creamery, ehurn with no dash in It, a good
| butter-printer 1--WE can work the butter in a
barrel or box churn), glass milk bottles If we
sell rich milk to private customers We should
make granular butter, try brine sailing, use a
| dairy thermometer, End out the best tempera-
ture for churning, read all we can about our
business, and when we find anything new and
usefulin our own experience, write it out for the
| benefit Of others Farmers Rsriew.