The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-03-24
TO HANDLE MICH cows.
Should Be Fed sanely and Treated with
Care.

II the COW Is TO be used in the dairy
and make her owner much profit, she
should be dairy COW. How to rear the
calf and handle the heifer and COW Is one
OF the things that many young men make
failure OF. A calf that is to be raised
for dairy cow should either be raised
on skim milk or q limited quantity Of
whole milk, says Farm, Stock and Home.
Many calves have been fed on fattening
ration when young and take on the ten
dency of laying on fat rather than lean,
consequently they develop into fat, beefy
animals rather than well-shaped dairy
COWS. We usually let the young calf take
the milk from the mother COW in the
natural way two or three times a day
for four days, then put ner by herself
and let her learn to drink, and when used
to skim milk feed in small messes two
or three times q day about ~ pa
quarts Of warm, sweet skim milk day.
Supplement this feed with a little
whole oats and oil cake meal as the calf
grows older, giving him all the nice clover
bay he viii eat. but feed this 70 him at
least twice day, feeding a small amount
each feed. If the calf comes in the fall,
which is the best time, she viii be in
good shape to put on to pasture in the
spring. The grass Of the summer will
give the young heifer good start and
BY fall she will be in prime condition To-
winter with but little grain feed 1t is
always desirable to handle heifers from
the time they are calves until they
are cows, SO as to keep them tsme and
gentle.
Tie more the cows aud heifers are
hardled the better and more gentle cows
they will make. Cows should cotae fresh
in thc fall if possible and liberal supply
Of n'trogenous. feed procured and stored
away for the winters feed. Nothing Isl
more detrimental to the continual milk
flow than to get out of feed several times
during the winters milking period and
the dairyman is obliged 10 substitute a
few nubbins of corn for a good liberal
feed of the right kind. This win always
shrink the COW. Plenty of good bedding
ia also a necessity. If the farmer is
slack and does not bed his cows as they
should be and they are Obliged to lie on
the hard plank floor, or the cold, hard
cement, this, also, tends to reduce the
flow of milk.
Regularity in milking is another thing
that tends to keep up the milk flow,
also if the same person can milk the
same cows each time, they viii do bet
ter than when mixers are changed often. !
Feeding should be regular.as well as wa
tering and if water can be warmed the
COW will do better work than when oblig |
ed to drink Ice cold water. We always |
put our cows in winter condition early and |
do not turn to pasture until the grass
has a good start, and we turn on the
pasture with care, letting the cows
have light feed each day until they
become used TO the grass.
Grass on land that has been MANFRED |
Is Of much better quality than grass on
land that has not been fortified. A |
supply Of silage or green corn to cut and !
throw to the COWS IS desirable when the
pastures begin to get short in the fan.
Our cows are salted twice each day in
the winter and in the summer salt is
provided so they can lick it at will. To
care for the details pays better in the
dairy business than to let things 60 as
they may. If the practice of turning
COWS out during the cold weather could
be stopped the increase day over the
state would be at least 80 pounds of
butter. Why win farmers turn out their
COWS in the cold and use up the major
portion of their feed for bodily mainte-
nance when it should 70 ror the produc-
lion Of milky. Make pet Of every COW
IN the farm Feed them all literally of
The right kind of feed. Feed regularly
and milk regularly. Keep your cows
comfortable at all times, and you win
receive maximum results.