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than their good management afterwards. There is one point especially 

 which should be carefully observed in managing cows ; they need good sta- 

 bling during the winter season, and during cold weather at any season of 

 the year. It is bad economy to leave cows exposed to the chilling blasts of 

 winter for three or four months in the year, without even a hovel to shel- 

 ter them from the storms and cold ; animals are, it is true, by nature 

 better prepared to endure cold than men, but still they are susceptible to 

 its severities. When properly sheltered and cared for, they consume less 

 fodder, are kept in better condition, and in the spring are in good order 

 and healthy. Many farmers entertain the idea that cows that cannot bo 

 wintered in the open air are unprofitable ; they want tough cows that can 

 endure all weather. The most experienced dairymen in central New 

 York, keep their cows in stables invariably during the cold weather, feed 

 and milk them there, and take as much care of them as they would of 

 their horses. Another important fact should be noted, and a remedy 

 applied, which will increase the quantity of milk ; during the latter part 

 of summer and in the fall, the feed has become dried as it often does, and 

 cows will give but little milk unless they are fed something besides what 

 they can obtain from the pasture ; this can be remedied to a great extent 

 by feeding them corn stalks. Let farmers, in the month of June, sow 

 corn broad cast, and as the season advances and cows begin to fail of 

 milk, commence feeding them once a day with the corn stalks ; the even- 

 inor is the most suitable time, the effects are most salutary upon milch 

 cows, and it well pays for all the labor and trouble incurred. During 

 the latter part of winter, and through the months of March and April 

 especially, it will be found highly beneficial to feed cows with mess of 

 some kind ; bran is excellent for this purpose. This management will 

 greatly increase the quantity of milk. After cows have been fed hay in 

 their stalls in the morning, clean out their mangers and place before 

 them messes of the kind above mentioned, and they will eat with a 

 hearty relish. Let them be turned out each day during the winter from 

 ten o'clock till four o'clock in the afternoon ; as the season advances and 

 the weather becomes warmer they need not be kept so many hours in 

 the stable. Another important matter should command the attention of 

 every farmer. Cows should be pastured as near home as convenient ; it 

 is no benefit to milch cows to be driven three or four miles every day, 

 nor to be suffered to run at large and range eight or ten miles, but a posi- 

 tive injury. They will not give the quantity of milk that cows do that 



