Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-11-21
Feeding the Milk Maker

In feeding the dairy COW liberallty is
the best policy. Find out how much
she can use to good advantage and
then give her that much.
Excellent Cow Feed.
On every farm there are refuse vege-
tables, such as pumpkins and small po-
tatoes. These make excellent COW
feed, not on account OF the nourishment
they contain, but as relish. Potatoes
are the best food OF all vegetables
When such vegetables as turnips are
fed they must be fed Immediately aft
er milking or they will faint the butter.
Feeding mt "a Loss.
The dairy ration should be palatable.
1t should be nutritious. 1t should
be digestible, abundant and as in
expensive as possible after the other
essentials are secured, but we should
never lose sight of the fact that
no ration is ever good enough or cheap
enough to coax profit out of a worth
less COW, says Farmers Advocate.
"Succulent foods the year around is
the watchword of the successful dairy
man. Their free use results not only In
greater profit, but enables those ami
mails to utilize greater quantities of
other foods with least danger. Inesti-
mable are the values of silage and roots
to the cow and the dairymaD, and yet
the large majority Of cow owners grow
neither ensilage nor roots.
Cow Worth Feeding.
Like thousands of other men, this
COW owner did not appreciate what his
COW was doing, what 1t meant to pro-
duce 5000 pounds of milk in ninety
days, with a fat content Of 165 pounds
or 1872 pounds of butter, says Hoard's
Dairyman. Then for the remaining
six months she gave, we will allow,
. twelve pounds day, or, at the same
figuring, 2, ITO pounds of milk, producing
1875 pounds of butter, or a total of 327
pounds of butter, and the man wonders
that she is poor when he did not know
enough to feed such COW what food
she ought to have. What has this cow
earned? At least So in butter and
skim milk. She Is a COW of SO strong
and decided dairy temperament that
she must give all the milk and butter
fat she can even II she takes IL out
of her body. There are thousands Of
wise men are breeding for. 1t is pity
that there Is not more breeding Of fit
dairymen to care for such cows.
Good Advice.
Good sound advice is always valua-
BILE. If there is any one thing the
average dairy farmer needs to be well
advised upon 1t is TO feed his good
cows better. A Wisconsin farmer at
Phillips writes to DR.. Smead of the
Tribune Farmer complaining that his
Jersey cow, fresh last November and
which gave thirty to thirty-five pounds
of milk day for three months, testing
90, now gives only six pounds a day on
good pasture and that she looks very
poor, though she is healthy. DR.. Smead
tells this man in plain practical words
that he has been neglecting this cow:
that he should have fed such fine cow
better. SO she could keep up; that there
Is little wonder that she is poor when
we consider the drain upon her system
10 produce that amount Of milk and
milk solids. That view. ii seems. new
er entered the mans head. He thought
something was the matter with the
cow. The doctor gives him the sound
advice TO dry her off and feed her two
quarts OF oats day till she calves. AS
be says, Keep her up, man; keep her
pp."