The Ordway new era., 1917-08-24

F.: been actively engaged in the
&: dairy business.
FEEDING HAY AND GRAIN
The calf referred here to is not
supposed to be for veal, but to be
raised for a dairy COW. The forego-
ing treatment should be accompanied
sweet hay and a little grain. The
sooner it learns to eat hay or other
rough forage and the more it eats the
better; but keep up milk feeding as
long as possible, if only once day
Grain should be used sparingly, oats
and bran preferred, perhaps little
linseed. and always to judiciously
suppliment the other food. Do not
turn it onto grass too soon. If a
spring calf. carry it over to the second
summer without pasturage. A fall
calf will be in good shape to get its
own living from pasture during the
first summer.
FALL CALVES
Fall calves are generally better
cared for, thrive better, and make
better cows than those dropped in the
spring; another reason for having
cows calve In the autumn. The writ
er feels certain of getting better re-
suits. in the end, from raising four
calves dropped at the season advised
than from five born in the spring and
is inclined to make the comparison
stronger.
FEED FOR YOUNG STOCK
From the time milk ceases to be
the main food of the calf until the
heifer drops her first calf lat which
time she becomes cow, II ever, re-
gardless of age) the feeding OF the
animal should be with the view to
'nourishment and growth, without ac-
emulation of flesh. When pastur-
age is good, after the calf is six
months old, there can be no better
food; II grass is short or dry and
growth slackens. supplement with
clover hay, wheat bran. or oats. At
other times let the food be mainly the
coarser and more bulky kinds Of for
age; the digestive apparatus needs to
be developed and become accustomed
to working up large quantities of
food. A big belly may result. but no
matter. II accompanied with we'll
sprung rib, strong back and loin.
depth of flank, and other marks Of
constitutional vigor, big belly is to
be desired, indicating capacity as a
feeder and user of feeds. Give long
forage, fodder, or "roughness" the
preference with young stock, and use
grain sparingly as needed to balance
the ration and promote growth and
thrift. A fall calf, well bred and
healthfully grown. should come in"
when just about two years old and
ought to make good COW.
ATTENDANCE AND MILKING
Regularity and Cleanliness-A
herd of good dairy COWS deserves to
have good care. and this can only be
insured by having the right kind of
attendants. II the owner is unable to
either attend the cows himself or give
the matter personal supervision twice
a day or more, it is to his interest and
profit to be certain that his employees
are trustworthy and fit to be COW
keepers. Everyone should be quiet
in his habits. A COW
abominates an unclean man. Tobacco
in all its forms is obnoxious to every
OF dairying. All the work
about the herd should be done with
the utmost system and regularity
stable cleaning, grooming. exercise.
watering, feeding, milking; a fixed
time for everything and everything
at its time-'on the dot"
MILKING
Nothing has been produced which
begins to compare with the human
hand as milking machine. Clean
liness and regularity are the first
REQUESTS in good milking, Next quiet
and gentleness should be accompan-
led by quickness. Two mixers. one
rapid and the other slow (the COW
being accustomed to both). will get
about the same quantity Of milk in
any given number Of days. but the
former will get the more fat. The
quicker the milking the richer the
milk. X the work = done wen and