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sometimes look like they were bloating so they could not get their breath 

 from the wheat, and then I do not let them run on the wheat any more 

 that day. 



Mr. Smith: Do you pasteurize your milk? 



Mr. Shepard 

 Prof. Eckles 

 Mr. Shepard 



No, I sterilize the bottles but do not heat the milk. 

 What is the best way to dispose of your surplus? 

 If there is a surplus, make it into butter and feed 

 the skim milk to hogs. Of course if there is a creamery near by, it 

 would be better to send the surplus milk to the creamery. 



Mr. Patterson : Do you ever have any trouble with the flavor of 

 wild onions in milk? 



Mr. Shepard : I have not had any trouble on that account for 

 years. The way to prevent it is to feed the cows very liberally at the 

 time, for the cows will eat onions only when they are hungry. Another 

 thing that damages milk is bad water. A thing of the greatest impor- 

 tance is give your cows good, pure water and not a muddy branch to 

 drink out of and give them good, clean troughs. 



THE WINTER'S RATION FOR THE DAIRY COW. 

 (By H. C. Goodrich, Calhoun, Mo.) 



Someone has said that there are many cowkeepers but few dairy- 

 men. When we consider that the average annual production of the 

 cows of Missouri is scarcely more than 150 pounds of butter and that 

 there are herds that average 300 to 350 pounds yearly we realize the 

 difference. 



Why this difference? Why is it that the average Missouri cow 

 produces so little ? There are three requisites to success with cows : 



1st. The right kind of cows. 



2nd. The right kind of feed. 



3rd. The right kind of care. 



Now we know that there are a number of cows of special beef 

 breeding that are kept principally for breeding purposes and are 

 seldom milked ; but leaving these out of consideration there are a 

 great many cows that because they have been bred along no par- 

 ticular line and have never been properly cared for are worthless so 

 far as dairy purposes are concerned. To obtain the greatest success 

 with dairy cows one should have animals that have been developed 

 along dairy lines until that has become to be their principal function, 

 in short the special purpose dairy cow. 



