Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
APPLY BUSINESS METHODS
A System in the Dairy Business
Makes for Greatly ln-
creased Profits.
BY j. M. pEIra1cH, PENNSYLVANIA.


l operate my small farm just as
would any other factory. I have a sys-
tenn that is adhered to all the time and
to that much Of what success have
attained is due,
Here are some things I have found
to be valuable: A heifer that is COM
ing In soon should have the same
feeding as the COW that Is dry. No
bag, no COW. Feed so you get an ud-
der The eye makes the dairyman. Keep
strict CESSATION table and read 1t
over every week. Group your cows
coming in at different times and count
2S5 days for 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 1t will dry up of itself.
Five times out of six she will come
In fresh with 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 stripping teats. l 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 exer-
else by making boy lead her. Her
hind legs In walking rub her udder bet
ter than any mans hand can. If she
is rat and you are afraid of milk fever
Walk her two or three miles a day. lie
you VIII walk her six or seven miles /
Will guarantee no milk fever.
Bran is the safest feed that goes
down cows throat--hay and bran
when she Is dry. In ten days to two
weeks before calving she ought to be-
gin to make bag. II 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 n pint if necessary
AT every feed keep your eye on the
cow and her udder. 1t should not be
big, red. infiamed, ulcerous looking
thing, hard as a brick and out Of shape,
but Il splendid pendent receptacle for
milk dignifed for maternity
| During the dry period our eye is al
ways on that COW. II she Is given ex-
ercise and fed for the day the calf is
to come your eyes will tell you just the
progress she is making as your ear can
tell when the violin is In tune. II her
| manure Is hard and knotty and she is
fat dose Of salts, ginger and molasses
given her will relieve her. This should
also be given every cow at the time
of caiving 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 IL
she will drink more water give three
to four quarts between the bran and
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 light mess OF
cut hay and bran and about the same
amount Of linseed as you fed before
she was fresh.
The next meal give a little more lin
seed and increase it gradually until
the fifth day, but never increase her
feed at one time more than one-half
pound. After all danger is over and
the udder is in good shape you can
feed the full ration that your COW can
digest profitably and she will be all
right for $50 days milk