Oct. 2, 1908.] Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W, 835 



To balance the i-ation the feeder reduces the bulky food, substituting an 

 e(|ual weight of the more expensive concentrated article and keeps on adding 

 this food rich in protein and i-educing tlie bulky, while the cow responds by 

 increasing in her milk flow. When this point is reached no further addition 

 of expensive fodder would make the cow milk any better. 



During winter and dry speTls every farmer should endeavour to feed his 

 fi-esh milking cows a l)alanced lation. This ration is not needed in the case 

 of dry stock or cows nearly dry, they can l)e kept in goofl condition when fed 

 solely on ensilage. 



However, as very few farmers have troughs the only altei'native is to feed 

 in the paddock. 



By feeding ensilage or bulky food at night, and hay during the day, or 

 vice versa, fairly good results will be got. 



If possible clioose sheltered hilly country for the feeding ground. Lay the 

 fodder out in long thin lines ; if dumped out in heaps, the cattle trample and 

 spoil fully half the feed. Change direction of lines daily, this helps keep 

 fodder clean. 



During wet weatlier let the cows have the fodder as fresh from the slide or 

 cart as possible. Cattle will not eat sodden hay oi- other food that lias been 

 lying out in the rain for hours. 



By chain harrowing the manure on feeding grounfl during damp weather, 

 dung is broken up, rubbish cleaned away, and the growth of grass on sucli 

 places when spring sets in will be greatly accelerated. 



Grow fodder, and in abundant seasons conserve the surplus. The days of 

 dairy squatting are done. Good dairy country becomes dearer and more 

 difficult to obtain every year. 



To make ends meet the farmer must get more milk from his cows : this can 

 only be done by feeding. 



No matter how well bred an animal may be she cannot milk without a 

 liberal supply of food. 



The "Daily Telegraph" Farker Scholarship. 



The regulations to be observed in connection with the above Scholarship 

 originally provided that the first examination, which is to be held in 

 December next, was to be open for all first-year students of the Wagga Fat in 

 School only, and the second, in December, 1909, was to be open foi- similar 

 students of the Bathurst Farm School, and so on, in alternate years. It has 

 now been decided that the Scholarship will be thrown open foi- competition 

 between the students of both farms at Wagga and P)atliuist at each examina- 

 tion, and further, that the successful student will lie allowed to take his 

 second year at any of the Agricultural Schools, the Hawkesbury Agricultural 

 College, and the Wagga or Bathurst Experiment Farms, proxided lie has 

 already spent one year at one of those institutions. 



