2X:2 LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. 



from four to ten quarts per day to a cow, according to the cow's 

 ability to digest her food. 



I grow a few roots, mangolds and carrots, and feed four 

 to six quarts per day to each cow, while they last, usually in 

 February and March ; but it would pay to raise enough to feed 

 all Winter, especially if one does not have to hire too much 

 help. 



CARE OF cows. 



In Summer I commence milking at six o'clock, at each end 

 of the day. In Winter I rise at five o'clock, feed hay, card cows 

 and young stock, breakfast, clean mangers, feed grain, and 

 begin to milk at seven o'clock. After milking, I feed cut 

 stalks or cut straw with shorts, wetting straw and mixing in 

 the shorts. I feed little and often, making them eat all clean. 

 At about ten I turn them out to water, clean the stable, place 

 hay in manger, and leave entirely to the cow how long she 

 shall stay out. If the day is pleasant, I feed straw or stalks in 

 yard, but when disagreeable, feed nothing outside. At three 

 to four o'clock I give some more coarse feed ; at half past five 

 cldan mangers, feed grain and roots, if roots are to be fed, and 

 milk. After milking I feed cut stalks. For this feed I put by 

 my poorest corn without husking ; in fact, I feed considerable 

 of my corn in this way. 



I keep plenty of pigs in the yard to root over the manure, 

 and always use some absorbent in the trenches behind the cows, 

 dry horse manure, road dust, or something of the kind, to save 

 the liquid manure. 



I have never lost but one cow ; this, a two year old, died 

 of inflammation soon after calving. I keep Jerseys only, and 

 their grades, from forty to fifty, and about as many pigs to 

 eat the sour milk and other slop. 



As each cow is milked, the milk is strained into cans, and 

 when milking is done, these are carried to the milk room, and 

 the milk strained through cloth inta a large pan that holds 

 the milk of all the cows. 



The pans, or vats, are similar to those used m cheese 

 factories, but in addition, I have a water-tight cover, ventilated. 



