Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-02-26
YIELD or MILK IN HOT WeAIHEN
Building n Summer silo and Filling IL the
Year Before.


Year Before.
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 60 batk to the day
of getting seed potatoes any and every
where, regardless of size and variety,
and do al of the work of cropping by
hand ~dd then waiting for buyer &c
come to the door for the crops, as 20
think that the COWS can Ne handled prof
itably by hit and miss methods and nc
attention paid to their feeding from the
lst day Of May until winter. Let the
dairy be the best.
There Is not now pasture III thou
sand that will SO produce, but that fol
two-thirds Of the time they are in it,
that a soiling ration of some kind would
not pay IA 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 third Of il
had been given from the LIST Of July the
shrinkage woulG have been very little
AS soon as the grass becomes dry a COW
that gives % or even 20 pounds of mill
per day cannot get the food she requires
from the shortened grass, and 1t doeN
need the addition of three or fou
pounds Of shorts TO keep her in flow,
as "A pound of Shorts are easily at lhis
time Of the year worth six pounds of tho
very best grass that the COW may find,
and as rule TO- and the cow that is
well kept in the midsummer will ccc-
tainly give 10 pounds Of milk more PEI
day than if left to pick up her own dv
ing III the much traInped pastures
That the dairy does Not pay better
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 soilea, keep three and better,
and if the grass was cut and fed in the
y
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 thu
liability of the stables in hot weather
becoming anything but proper place
in which to milk, and much less TO look
for uncontaminated milk. IL 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 specia,ties have won
honorable regulations John Gould in
Practical Farmer.
See here, John, why is il 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 a substitute for prime hay III win
ter as ensilage. Food costs money sum.
mer or winter, the best way you can tia
it. IL b. Gu-,1r, the noted Illinois
dairyman, follows just this practice
He told us last year how grandly i,
worked; how his COWS kept up in thar
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 aud feed it when
pasturage shortens. - Hoard's Dairy
man.