Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-07-31
Feeding the Milk Maker

In feeding the dairy cow liberality Is
she can use to good advantage and
then give her that much.
Excellent Cow Feed.
On every farm there are refuse vege-
tables. such "A 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 turnlps are
fed they must be fed Immediately aft
er milking or they will faint the butter.
Feeding at q 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 worth
less COW. says Farmers Advocate.
"succulent foods the year around" Is
the watchword Of the sucoessful 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 ensilage nor roots.
A Cow Worth Feeding.
Like thousands OF other men, this
COW owner did not appreciate what his
COW was doing, what it meant to pro
duce 1900 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, 2.110 pounds of milk, producing
1875 pounds of butter, or a total of 321
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 to have. What has this COW
earned? At least SO in butter and
skim milk Che 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 II out
of her body. There are thousands of
such cows. This is the kind of COW
wise men are breeding for. 1t is a pity
that there Is not more breeding Of At
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 Ii 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-fve pounds
Of milk day for three months, testing
SO, now gives only six pounds a day Oh
good pasture and that she looks very
poor. though she is healthy. Dr. Smcal
tells this man in plain. practical words
that he has been neglecting this COW
that he should have fed such n 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
TO produce that amount Of milk anl
milk solids. That ,-iew. Il seems. nev-
sr entered the mans heal lie thought
something was the matter with the
COW The doctor gives him the sound
advice to dry her of amt feed her two
quarts Of oats day till 4 v calves. As
be says. Keep her up. uSln; keep her
rp."