Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-07-20
FOR THE FARMERS
Useful Information Concern.
ing Farm Work.
FOR THE COMFORT OF COWS
The Opinions Of IA Few Noted Dairy
men ON the on the Care of the
Cow-Dairy Notes.

Cow-Dairy Notes.
Mr. l.. 5. Hardin says in Home and
Farm, that on the subject of comfort
for cows as a profitable investment the
Indiana experiment station has settled
that beyond argument The only
point remaining to fix III the mind is
what constitutes comfort for the COW
within the radius of profitable dairy
ing. To those who are not familiar
with the handling of herds that yield
in the neighborhood of 800 pounds of
butter per head year, the sight of such
stable work would look to them very
much like coddling the cows. Perhaps
there is something of this where the
cows are carded or rubbed down every
morning and the bedding carefully
tucked in behind them at night. In
deed it is very hard to make COWS do
their best unless You are fond of them
and are willing to waste little extra
energy i'll taking care of them, but one
thing must always be kept in mind in
handling COWS, and that is every extra
pound of care on feed will be returned
y
who have had the most to do with
herds Of large profit tell all the time
of how the COW 'stores up flesh and
fat in the body for the future use.
Mr.. Goodrich, a noted dairy writer,
tells of his conversion to the debata-
BILE practice of feeding meal to COWS
while on good pastures. He did moi
believe it paid, but he saw so many OF
the best dairymen doing it that one
season he concluded to try it against
his own convictions and in the face of
the ridicule Of his neighbors. The re-
suit was, TO his amaZement, that at
the end of the year he had fifty pounds
of butter per COW ahead of the previous
year, record, though the meal did not
much increase the flow of milk or its
richness at thJ time it was fed, but II
seemed to give the COWS good staying
qualities up to the last of the season,
and it is amazing how much there Is
10 be gotten out of the tail-end of the
milking season with good previous
care Mr.. Goodrich says he figured il
out that he got a return Of 50 for every
dollar he paid for the meal he fed
while the cows Were at pasture.
If little comfort is good for the
cow, you can rest assured that a good
/ deal is still better. If she is housed
/ only during severe storms or bitter colo
weather she will pay for the trouble,
/ but if you are wise yon will take a les
son from this and continue the good
work by keeping her in the stable al
the time during cold weather, except
of course, during exceptionally warm
! days IL winter. The Rural New York
er sent inquiries to a number Of noted
! dairymen to know what they thought
of keeping COWS up all winter, or rs
the inquirer put it, from December tC
April 10Th. " Each and every one an
| swered that such was their practice,
and none of them allowed the air i'll
the stable to get down to the freezing
point. The stable was kept warm by
the heat coming from the COWS bodies
the air kept pure by the use of good
| bedding and busting either with plaster
or road dust. Whitewashing they rec
ommend as cheap and useful, besides
making the stable light and cheerful.