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Ib. of butter daily. Then meal made by grinding the com, 

 cob and all, has long been in use, and is known to be 

 economical feed. This has been proved by those who have 

 used both, and now we have the results of recent experi- 

 ments at the Kansas Agricultural College, where ten beasts 

 have been fed, five on corn-meal and five on cob-meal, under 

 exact conditions, each tied in a stall four feet wide. 



Warmth, Shelter and Feeding. This is a most 

 important point, and to dairymen in particular. The first 



call upon food is 

 to maintain the 

 animal heat, and 



Warmth in Winter and Shade in Summer. 



even in our 

 favoured climate 

 cows exposed to 

 the cold of winter 

 fall off in their 

 milk, in its quality and quantity, to a far greater extent than 

 dry weather accounts for. The loss may be even one-third of 

 the milk supply. To prevent such loss, sheds, stables, or 

 such shelter as saves the stock from suffering cold and wet 

 are the most certain safeguards. 



Haymaking. The value of hay, as feed, need not be 

 underrated, in order to see the advantages of ensilage. 

 Haymaking requires skill, 

 and machinery specially 

 suitable. Then it suffers 

 from the risks of wet as 

 well as excessively dry 

 weather, neither of which 

 affect so much the cutting 

 and storing of ensilage, in 

 either pits or stacks. 

 Webster defines hay as dry 

 grass, cured for future use as food for animals. But it is 

 as well to know, that to preserve tho valuable qualities of 

 herbs or grasses, they must first be wilted in the sun, and 

 then dried in the .shade, and in the operation there is loss 

 of flavour and of valuable juices. " Make hay when the 

 sun shines " does not mean too much .sun, as we have it at 



Hake fur Mar, Ensilage Stuff, 4o. 



