The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-14

the very best milk strain to be had.
A COW Will fail to yield 10 her owner
profit on an empty stomach. or when
she has the shady side Of barbed wire
fence for shelter. she must be satisfied
with both feed and shelter for twenty
! four hours a day, seven days a week
and fifty-two weeks In a year, in order
to be profitable. Comfort means profit
with a COW. If she is satisfied, she will
not naed an iron yoke Of q crotch Of a
| cottonwood limb to keep her from go
ling through the fence.
BY keeping record Of both quantity
and quality of each cows milk ] have
learned that better care and feeding
will produce better cows. The time 1t
takes to DO this amounts to but very
little, and will detect the robbers in the
herd.
II have learned in the past seasons,
that my cows running IN the pasture
| would fall off gradually for four or FIVE
weeks. Then, after good shower they
would 60 back to their former yield per
day. If i had supplied them with feed
during that time my profit would have
been greater.
1t pays to get a good dairy breed.
They are generally of a kinder dispose
ton, and when you feed dairy COW
she will show 1t in the milk pail and
not in the laying on of flesh. With the
beef breed it is just the reverse.
1t pays better to run dairy without
IA dog: the cows are ouieter. A dog
that nips their heels will cause kicky
cows. The moment one touches the
lcow's legs while milking she will kick,
thinking the dog is after her. I used to
Ithink it was impossible, to get along
without dog to drive the cows. but
since we have been without one the
cows are much quieter and do not offer
Ito kick. have no fault to find with a
dog for stock cattle.
It pays to keep the cows and also the
| stable clean, by having floor Of some
kind and butter sixteen or eighteen
inches wide behind the cows. 1t is
then an easy matter to keep the COWS
and stable clean. The barn should be
cleansed both morning and night. The
heifer calf that is kept In clean and
dry place till she becomes cow will
not lie in filth If she can help it. Also,
/ if heifer calf is provided with clean
water, and not allowed to drink out Of
a puddle, 1t will be hard to get her to
drink filthy water. I have five Jersey
cows and one heller that were kept and
raised in a pasture that had only a
mud puddle for them to drink out of,
and after got them they would drink
Tout Of mud puddle before they would
drink out Of a tank None of the other
cows would do this.
BY feeding the cows after milking the
milk will not have any disagreeable
odor from the feed we may give them.
In my part of the country we are both
tered very much with wild onions, or
garlic in the pastures and for a few
weeks in the spring we can hardly use
either milk or butter. But when we
take the cows off the pasture three or
four hours before milking, the smell Of
the onions cannot be detected in the
milk or butter. d a .@g
Sugar beets and sugar beet leaves or
tops may be very good feed, but must
be fed carefully, or they will cause the
milk to have a peculiar smell. They
should not be fed heavily if cows are
kept =. in the born all the time, OH ac-
count of the strange odor they cause.
Tops make much better feed If cured,
but if fed very heavy twill take long
time to .ehurn the cream.
I have learned that a calf given alfa-
ia hay as soon as It will eat 1t will
make better calf than if fed any 9TH
er roughage have ever fed. I have
: raised as good calves on heparatoT
milk, oil cake and alfalfa hay as can
be raised running with the COW. Oil