Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-06-01
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YIELD OF MILK IN HOT WEATHER.
Building u Summer silo and Filling 1t the
Year Before.

year bciOre.
That dairy will run itself and pay
dividend in this day of strong competi-
ton is out of the question AS soon say
that Mr.. Terry can go back to the day
of getting seed potatoes any and every
where, regardless of size and variety,
and do all of the work of cropping by
hand and then waiting for buyer to
come TO the door for the crops, as TO
think that the COWS can be handled prof
itably by hit and miss methods and no
attention paid to their feeding from the
LIST day of May until winter. Let the
dairy be the best
There is not now pasture in thou
sand that will so produce, but that for
two-thirds of the time they are in it,
that soiling ration Of some kind would
not pay large dividend upon the outlay
and, what is more the flow Of milk once
checked by shortage of feed or drying
up, as it does under August suns, can
not be again revived, even with gen.
erous grain diet, while if a third Of it
had been given from the lst Of July the
shrinkage would have been very little
As soon as the grass becomes dry cow
that gives 20 or even 20 pounds of milk
per day cannot get the food she requires
from the shortened grass, and it does
need the addition of three or four
pounds of shorts to keep her in flow,
as a pound of shorts are easily at this
time Of the year worth six pounds of the.
very best grass that the COW may find,
and as a rule 10, and the COW that is
well kept in the midsummer will GER
tainly give 10 pounds of milk more per
day than if left TO pick up her own liv-
ing in the much tramped pastures.
That the dairy does not pay better is
often the result of neglect, the absence
of that attention to the little details
that are so often looked upon as non
essential, and when looked after and
put into practice are the things that
win. What the fall and summer ration
shall be in addition to grass is ques'
ton. Some say that the four acres of
the pasture required TO summer COW
would, if soiled, keep three and better,
and if the grass was cut and fed In the
yard boxes that no grain or extra feed
will be needed The COW will eat
more in this way than if allowed
to run at will. There is a disadvan-
tage in this, the extra work and the
liability Of the stables in hot weather
becoming anything but proper place
in which to milk, and much less to look
for uncontaminated milk. 1t is probably
the best way to pasture the COWS and in
troduce partial soiling with the second
growth clover, some grain and later on
the sweet corn, and thus keep the cows
up to as full flow as may be and handle
the dairy with the same intelligence as
those who in other specialties have won
honorable regulations. John Gould in
Practical Farmer.
See here, John, why is it not the most
practical way to get that soiling food,
to build summer silo and fill it the
year before on purpose to feed the COWS
in summer shortage? You believe that
there is no food which is as cheap and
good substitute for prime hay in win
ter as ensilage. Food costs money sum-
mer or winter, the best way you can fix
it. r. B. Gurler, the noted Illinois
dairyman, follows just this practice.
He told us last year how grandly it
worked; how his cows kept up in their
flow of milk, when his neighbors' drop
ped off seriously. 1t is not an expensive
thing to do TO provide about two tons
Of ensilage per COW and feed it when
pasturage shortens. - Hoard's Dairy
man.