The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-07
THE "FREsHv cow IN AUTUMN.
BY John Gould. Ohio.

by Jonn Gould, OHIO.
The rapid advance of the practice of
winter dairylng has brought with it a
new demand upon the dairyman-that of
the fall care and oversight of the cows
that are for the next ten months to give
him his income. 1t is essential that the
cow shall come into the dairy in good
condition and flow of milk. This flow is
to be maintained until she is in the
stables for the winter, and that uniform
care must be bestowed that only the
modern barn and the modern system of
law and the profits of successful winter
dairying. 1t seems to be a settled fact
that the COW that drops her calf in the
later days of September or early in Octo-
per, and has proper care, IS as rule the
better paying COW and holds to her mess
better than if calving earlier or later,
and while this is to be desired, it is quite
impossible to carry it out IN practice, so
there Will be a coming into the dairy
from early September until well into the
winter. 1t has been my experience that,
year-round dairy, although the August
yield of milk is very small as compared
with that of January.
The winter mixer should have at least
eight weeks of rest. While the food need
not be lavish in variety, / am of the
opinion that it should be generous in
amount, and it should hold the COW well
up in flesh, and enable her to supply all
OF her wants that nature is imposing
upon her without the necessity of her
drawing sight drafts" upon her own
water, a good supply of grass, though 1t
may be somewhat dry, and a small
amount of grain for the three weeks be-
fore calving-three pounds Or SO daily
mandS, and give her subsistence with
which to develop a full udder. In my
own practice l do not separate the cows
that are to calve soon from those that
are still IN milk, except that they are
not put into the stables with the mixers
until just before they calve, when they
the exercise that they take in the large
pasture, and in gong and coming, is in
its moderate way beneficial, and / have
learned not to make radical change in
the life of a cow day or two before she
calves, but as soon as the calf is born
both it and the mother are put into a
warm, dry, above-ground stable, and the
COW then has the best of care, but not
gins to increase, and then it may be full
two weeks before the full fall grain
ration is given. When all danger of tax
ing colo and the like Is over the COW is
turned with the rest and has the same
looking after as is accorded to all. | am
not in favor of the calf running with the
few times, but 1 allow the cow to
mother her calf, and then 1 milk the
COW and feed the calf. In two or three
days the bond of affection is about over
no commotion.
The winter mixer must have no end
of good feed IN the way of green crops
and corn fodder A field OF late mfllet or
rye is a fine aid in carrying the milk flow
into cold weather and the stores of
silage and mixed grain. To let the COW
shrink in the fall for want of pasture
grass and the soiIing crop, is to fail all
through the winter, and is the cause of
loss that can't be excused Not only
must there be much good food at hand,
but shelter, and the COW in it on all &C.
casions of chill-ralns, frosty nights and
protracted storms. Warmth must go
with good feeding in all the fall and
close approach to winter, and it is fine
and paying plan to begin to stable the
cows nights by the 1st of October in
month in Northern Ohio. BY Thanks
giving let them stay in the barn pretty
nearly all of the time, and from then On
about 1863 hours per week, until the
warmer days of springtlme.
/ am a little disposed to give--n the
fall pasture feed is very good-the bulk
of the soiling crop to the cows at night;
plan of feeding, letting the greater part
of the grain be fed in the morning. rms
plan I find gives me pretty nearly uni
form feeding control of the COWS. For
the fall solling crops nothing equals corn
of the different varieties, getting on to
the Virginia ensilage corn rs soon as 1t
has well developed, and if frosts hold OF,
letting some of it stand as long as pos
sible. For grain there is a great variety
and of all prices but for the fall months
there is little doubt that wheaton
Seconds are the best all-round grain
that can be fed to the fresh fall mixer
n. Y. Tribune.