Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-28
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System Makes the Money.

| by the Rev. j. M. Detrick in Chicago
Drovers' Journal
| / operate a small farm just as
would any other factory. have a sys-
tenn that is adhered to all the time, and
to that much of what success I have
attained is due.
Here are some things have found tc
be valuable: A heifer that is coming
as the COW that is dry. No bag, no
COW. Feed SO that you get an udder;
the eye make the dairyman. Keep a
| strict CESSATION table and read it over
every week. Group your cows coming
in at different times and count 2S5
days for a COW to drop her calf.
| When a COW is dry she should be
| thoroughly dry. 1t is an abominable
practice to leave COW partly dry, ex-
| pecting that it will dry up of itself.
Five times out of six she will come in
fresh with q bad udder. thick milk or
bad quarter.
The right way is to put her on tim
othy hay and water only and milk her
dry by skipping teats. I know the
| carelessness of COW keepers; they do
| not deserve the name of dairymen.
After the COW is dry-and all my
COWS must be dry four weeks; not
more or less-we feed for health and a
good calf, and give the COW plenty of
exercise by making boy lead her. Her
hind legs in walking rub her udder
better than any mans hand can. If
she is fat and you are afraid of milk
fever, walk her two or three miles a
IL IL III.
en- miles l will guarantee no milk fe-
yer.
Bran is the safest feed that goes
down a cows throat-hay and bran
when she is dry. In ten days to two
weeks before calving she ought to be-
gin to make a bag. If she does not on
four to six quarts of bran and all the
hay she can eat and her bowels are
right, give her handful of cake meal;
increase it to two handfuls and on up
to a pint if necessary.
At every feed keep your eye on the
cow and her udder. 1t should not be
a big, red, infiamed, demonstrating
thing, hard as a brick and out Of
shape, but a splendid pendant recepta-
Gle for milk dignifed for maternity.
During the dry period our eye is ala
ways on that COW. If she is given ex-
ercise and fed the day the calf is to
come your eyes will tell you just the
progress She is making as your ear
can tell you just when the violin is in
tune. If her manure is hard and knot
ty and she is fat a dose Of salts, gin
ger and molasses given her will relieve
her. This should also be given every
COW at the time of calving, and If she
is inclined to swollen udder give one
half pound more of salts thirty-six
hours after calving.
The bran and water are given the
cow little and often; that is, one quart
of bran in three to four quarts Of
cold water five or six times day, and
If she will drink more water give three
to four quarts between the bran and
the water, and feed hay sparingly for
two days. The COW will refuse the
bran and water after two days and
then you can commence to give a light
mess of cut hay and bran and about
the same amount of Hnseed as you
fed before she was fresh.
The next meal give a little more linz
seed and increase it gradually until
the fifth day, but never increase her
feed more than one-half pound. After
all danger is over and the udder is in
good shape you can feed the full RAJ
ton that your COW can digest profit
ably and she will be all right for $50