The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1896-05-28
Agriculture.



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| Description Of COW
/. Methoos Of feeding, etsblias and
growing the food.
3 Amount Of butter per COW. per year
together With the pun Der OF setes 1t takes
to support them year.
! My COWS are oil highs rsde Short
horns. except one black one bringing up
the rear They are general purpose cows
| do not pretend to ave all good cows,
neither do Expect to have them come 10
year after year when want them, but
when can.
2, As to feeding; A person needs al
eye Ike al eagle, watching his herd
moiuiug, neon aud night. allowing no one
but himself to feed at all times xcepting
lmI sIbiitiet); give them all they will
eat aud OF the Kind circumstances and
cheap Dtss will til1rd, not forgetting at
any time that they INST give lots OF milk
10 the pail, and good cream on the milk.
For this ! ind one food Indispensable, oil
meal Whist one COW likes best is not 81
ways relished by the others, aud some
little change Is agreeable to all
Directly after milking in the morning
feed each coz three to four and one half
quarts of whole oat.; after breakfast they
are turned 10 the ysrd to drink from well
water IN tank, which has q good wind
bresk oil around. the stable all nicely
cleaned ont and nicely bedded; the orts OF
the corn fodder removed to the horses
hangers and sufficient corn fodder re
placed and then PIT If. Then at five
O'Clock let out again, tara cleaned, bed
ded, orts again removed as before and
sufficient corn fodder to last for the night
before them and 10 again. 10 cold weather
when the COWS have sharp sppetites, feed
them grain three times a day, with corn
fodder, when ] milk them three times.
After milking il the evening, | feed
rom two 10 iour ouuds oil meal, just de
ponds 90 the COW This has been my Jro
gram since las October. md by the above
psinstskiDg methods have, through the
month OF January. received 100 pounds
milk per day from my best cows, and this
we'll up il butter fst
10 regard to growing the feed. 10 these
lines OF Iowa drCughts, since bay and pas
ture are almost complete failures Tor two
years my chief and OIL y hold is corn and
oats, which 10 cur vicinity have been far
from a TAI IRE. My cows bad just two
months pasture last summer, also the
summer r vious and 1t took twenty acres
for eleven COWS 10 do that well, while two
,c,es of I'D corn we'll ,aken care NJ will
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