TREATMENT OF DAIRY STOCK. 119 



months old, and even longer if convenient, giving it at the 

 same time plenty of good grass in summer, or rowen in 

 winter, with the addition of a few flat turnips. 



Follow this method, and nine-tenths of your calves will 

 become good cows if properly treated when they first come 

 to milk. 



Care must be taken not to give too large quantities of milk 

 at a time. 



Four quarts, night and morning, is sufficient for most 

 calves. 



The cow should be carefully treated at all times, and have 

 her wants as fully supplied as possible at all seasons of the 

 year. In spring keep her in the barn or yard till feed in the 

 pasture is well started. When the change from barn to 

 pasture is made, it should be gradual, as there is danger of 

 injury to her at this time. Give a foddering of good hay 

 night and morning, and omit any extra feed, as meal or 

 shorts. When the pastures begin to dry up, care should be 

 taken not to let the cows " fall oif." They require a certain 

 amount of food to supplj^ nature, and more than that goes 

 either to beef or milk ; and she should not be allowed to 

 shrink in milk for want of proper food to make it. Of what 

 this extra feed shall consist, or what is best, there are many 

 opinions. I prefer green sweet-corn fodder, fed in the barn 

 night and morning if necessary. It increases the richness 

 and quantity of the milk, and the cows prefer it to other 

 kinds of corn. 



Hungarian grass is good ; but, after a trial of both, I prefer 

 the corn. Cows will eat it better, and it is a surer crop to 

 raise. When cows have come to the barn, dry corn-fodder is 

 of much value if properly fed. Many will not agree with 

 me. Some think it of so little value as to use it for bedding 

 and mulching. My way of preparing it for feeding is to cut 

 and put it into the feed-trough with a few shorts (about one 

 quart to a cow), then pour on hot water, and cover tight to 

 keep in the steam, letting it stand from two to four hours 

 before feeding. 



Prepared in this way there is little waste, and cows do 

 well on it ; when fed only once a day, I prefer it at night. 

 I have fed cows in this way all winter, and they came out in 

 good order in the spring. 



