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quarts of one and one quart of the other, is as high feed 

 in these articles, as cows should ever have. On shorts, 

 bran and roots, they may be fed liberally. Four quarts 

 of Indian meal, in a long run, will dry up and spoil the 

 best of cows, so that they will never recover. 



Carrots are among the very best roots for milch cows, 

 producing a good but not very great mess of rich milk, 

 and keeping the cow in good health. Parsnips are nearly 

 the same. Ruta-bagas are rather rich, and keep up the 

 condition. To prevent any unpleasant taste in the milk 

 <Vom feeding turnips, use salt freely on them, and milk 

 night and morning before feeding with turnips. Cab- 

 bage turnip, (or turnip-rooted-cabbage-below-ground,) 

 has no such effect. It resembles ruta-baga, is raised in 

 the same way, and yields as much or more. 



Some keep cows in the barn, by night, in the warm 

 season. They are saved from storms, and more manure 

 is saved. There should be good ventilation in hot 

 weather. Cows are much better for being kept in the 

 barn nearly all the time in cold weather. To drink 

 freely of cold water, and then stand out half chilled to 

 death, is highly injurious. But they should go out a 

 little while daily, in favorable weather, and be driven 

 around gently, for exercise. Inaction is death to all the 

 animal race. [See page 20.] 



Cows and other cattle are generally badly managed. 

 They are not watered, in short days, until ten o'clock in 

 the morning, and their last chance for drinking is about 

 four in the evening. Thus they go sixteen hours with 

 out drink, and during that time they take nearly all 

 their food, which is as dry as a husk. They suffer to 

 a great degree from thirst, and then drink to excess. 

 As a remedy, give cattle a part of their breakfast only, 

 and then water them, and water again after finishing 

 their morning meal ; and if kept up, water at noon, 

 and again at night. If it be too much trouble to take 

 good care of stock, then keep less, and they will be as 

 productive and more profitable, if well managed. We 

 have fed sheep that had constant access to water within 

 eight or nine rods, and after eating thirty or forty 

 minutes in the morning, they would all go and drink. 



