Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-26
DANA's Ia GUARANTEED" TO CURE
Profits OF Winter Dai, wing

Winter dairying is practicable to those
who will put themselves in the line of
progressive dairy thought. but it cannot
be carried on with old time methods.
Tine failure sOf cows to breed at the
proper time" is not the greatest obstacle
to overcome in winter dairying First,
| the barn, the stable, the water. the feed
| and the COW each have to be considered
and made to harmonic with the s'chang
ed season." The winter care of the
milking dairy is an artificial creation, as
| compared with the usual summer keep
| There must be warm stabie--not allow.
ed TO approach the freezing temperature
1t must be kept at least 20 dogs. above
Light in this stable should be abundant,
| and sunshine fall as much as possible
within its walls.
There should be an abundant supply
of water at command in the baro, so
that the cows can be watered there
without much labor. This is cheaply
provided for with thirty barrel gal
vanized iron tank, with close cover,
standing in the stable near the cows,
supplied from well or spring. Then
the water is supplied to the cows at a
uniform temperature of so dogs. without
heaters or pipes. The winter food
most conducive to abundant milk flow
| is cheaply provided for by the use of the
silO and bran, with n luncheon of clover
hay. Six tons of silage for each COW
will abundantly feed her from Novem-
Der to May 20; mill feed at ST. per ton
will supply the food for mich COW for
ten cents per day. | have done even
better than this. Hay to exceed three
pounds per day to each COW is not needed
in the winter dairy.
The winter dairy, rightly managed, is
profitable because the prices for dairy
produce are much better from Septem-
Der to June than from April to Nov. -,
which is about the limit of milk giving
for the summer dairy. The milking
period of the October calviDg COW is
fully sixty days longer than that of the
spring mixer. There is little difficulty
in keeping the October mixers in profit
able milk giving nine months, often
more, and the men with silos and winter
diaries show the figures that their cows
give fully one.fOurth more milk in the
same number of days than will the same
dairy MIXED in summer, and the balance
of the milk obtained in the longer milk
ing period is clear gain. The dairy that
gives SIS worth of milk in summer gives
SIS winter MIXED.
The question of cheap winter feeding
is being rapidly settled with many.
Others are now fully Of the opinion that
| the winter mixer can be kept as cheaply
| with shorts and silage as the dry COW
can be on hay and the ordinary plan of
| keep. One Of the most successful dairy
men of New York, who keeps his dairy
on siage the year round, puts the cost
at :; grain, 525; silage, sl2; average in
come of each COW, SO. An acre of good
silage more than keeps a COW one year !;
| this is a result that scores of other farm.
ers testify to and with as good success
The advantages of winter dairying aside
from all this in the way of paying mar
kets, cheaper labor, more uniform care
of the cows and other matters need no
elaboration here. To the man who has
a well cared for winter dairy these mat
tiers are self evident JOHN GOULD in
| 1mertedn Igricuiturist