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lent food. Silage may have been stored for summer use. If 

 so, now is the time to use it. You may have sowed oats and 

 peas in the proportion of 1% oats to 1 of peas for your dairy 

 cows. Now is the time to cut it and draw it to the barn for 

 them. Do not throw this feed over the fence to them. Put 

 it in their mangers. Be sure that something has been pro- 

 vided for the dairy cows at this time of the year. 



Then, too, the flies are bad in June and July, and if 

 allowed to bother the cows will cause a material decrease 

 in the flow of milk. You cannot afford to let this go un- 

 noticed. A preparation made of fish oil and crude carbolic 

 acid mixed in the proportion of a tablespoonful of carbolic 

 acid to one quart of fish oil, if applied once a week to all 

 parts of the cow except the udder, will prevent the flies both- 

 ering her. 



Shade should be provided where the cows can get out 

 of the heat in the middle of the day. 



Forbid it that any dairyman should allow his cows to 

 be chased with a dog. It will pay you to walk after them. 

 The more hurry in this case the less milk. Even a boy on 

 horseback will often drive the cows too fast. Be a friend of 

 your cattle. Love begets love, even in your dairy cows. 



Provide a shelter also against the cold winds and rains 

 of October. Milk them as you did in the winter, always at 

 the same time, quietly, gently, but speedily. When you have 

 finished milking, do not sit and strip. It annoys the cow. 



Keep in mind both summer and winter never to allow 

 your dairy cow to have a set-back in the flow of milk. 



