Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-02-07

In feeding the dairy cow llberality 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 a 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 at n 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 a a 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 dairyman. and yet
the large majority Of COW owners grow
neither eIsllage o roots.
A Cow Worth Feeding.
Like thousands of other men, this
COW owner did not appreciate what his
COW was doing, what 1t meant to pro
days, with a fat content of 1G5 pounds
or 1872 pounds Of butter, says Hoard's
Dairyman. Then for the remaining
six months she gave we will allow,
twelve pounds a day, or, at the same
figuring, 2.110 pounds of milk, producing
1876 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 a COW what food
she ought t o have. What has this COW
earned? At least $75 in butter and
skim milk. She is a cow Of so strong
and decided a dairy temperament that
she must give all the milk and butter
fat she can ever II she takes 1t out
Of her body. There are thousands of
such ows This Is the kind of COW
wise men are breeding for. 1t Is a pity
that there is not more breeding of fit
dairymen to care for such cows.
Good Advice.
Good sound odyica ic oI-or~ -
Bile. II 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 thlrty-fve pounds
OF milk a 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. DIR. Smead
tells this man In plain, practical words
that he has been ~neglecting this cow:
that he should have fed such a fine COW
better. SO she could keep up; that there
~ little wonder that she Is poor when
we consider the drain upon her system
to produce that amount OF milk and
milk solids. That view, 1t seems, new
or entered the mans head. He thought
something was the matter with the
COW. The doctor gives him the sound
advice to dry her on and feed her two
quarts Of oats a day till she calves. Al
- says. "Ksep her up, man: keep her
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