ECONOMY WINTER FEEDING. 



cow, and lettuces, as a change of diet, will help to 

 force the secretion of milk. Should the green food 

 scour the cow, a small quantity of good hay must 

 be allowed daily. 



The few advocates for the ECONOMICAL mode of 

 feeding cows, always direct them to be kept entirely 

 in the house, both summer and winter, a practice 

 to which I have strong objections, not only on the 

 score of the animals' health and comfort, but that 

 I have always experienced exercise abroad to in- 

 crease the quantity of milk. Thus the cows may be 

 turned upon the common waste, to remain or come 

 home at their liberty, being fed to the full, with cut 

 grass, morning and evening, with the constant cau- 

 tion of allowing them shelter in the fly season. 

 They may lie abroad during summer nights, in a 

 well-littered yard, or secure waste, a sufficiency of 

 cut grass being at their command. Pure water is 

 of great consequence to the health and productive- 

 ness of the cow. If one beast drive the other, al- 

 ways at feeding times tie up the mistress. 



WINTER-FEEDING. The chief dependence for 

 cows is rowen, or after-math hay. This must be 

 either grown at home, or purchased. It is a piece 

 of extravagance to allow a good milch cow dry 

 straw, because milk is worth more than hay ; but 

 should the necessity exist of using straw, none other 

 is fit than oat straw. ROWEN, or after-math is ge- 

 nerally supposed to force milk, but in poor pastures 

 perhaps the first crop may be preferable ; and I have 

 lately been informed by a London cow keeper, a 

 good feeder, that he has discontinued giving rowen 



