Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-07-12
Feeding the Milk Maker

In feeding the dairy COW liberality 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 sman 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 tunilps are
fed they must be fed Immediately aft.
er milking or they will taiDt tue butter.
Feeding at n LosR.
The dairy ration - Id lie palatable.
1t should be nutr..~.Is. 1t should
be dlgestible, 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 OF cheap
enough to coax profit out of 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 darylnan, and yet
the large majority of COW owners grow
neither ensllage nor roots
Cow Worth Feeding.
Like fhO11con1c Of oil, N. ,,a, &bf,
cow owner did not appreciate what his
COW was doing. what it meant to pro
duce 5000 pounds of milK III ninety
days, with fat content Of i65 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 Mt the same
2,110 pounds of milk, producing
1875 pounds of butter, or 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 to have. What has this COW
earned? At least $75 la butter and
skim milk she is q COW Of so strong.
and decided a dairy temperament that
she must give all the milk and butter
fat she can even if she takes it 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 fit
dairymen to care for sucp cows.
Good ADVICE.
Good sound advice is always valua-
4 10 a.
average dairy farmer needs to be well
advised upon it is to feed his good
cows better. A Wisconsin farmer at
phillips writes 10 DR.. smead Of the
tribune Farmer complaining that his
Jersey cow. fresh last November and
which gave thirty to thirty-hve pounds
Of milk day for three months, testina
80, now gives only six pounds day on
good pasture and that she looks very
Door, though she Is healthy. DR.. Smead
ellis this man in plain, practical words
nat he has been neglectlng this cow
nat he should have fed such fine COW
better, SO she could keep M: that ther
s little wonder that she Is poor when
We consider the drain upon her system
o produce that amount CT milk and
milk solids. That view, 1t seems. new.
IT entered the mans head. He thought
was the matter with the
ow The doctor gives him the sound
Idvice to dry her off and feed her two
quarts OF oats a day till she calves. A
le says, Keep her up, man; Keep her
Ip."