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Por cattle, straw should be cut long and not short, as is done 

 for horses. 



995. Relation of food to weight. There are cows and 

 cows, and there are bullocks and bullocks. A cow weighing 

 only 300 Ibs. as our Bengal cc .vs often do, should not be 

 given the same quantity of food as a cow weighing 1500 Ibs. 

 or 1700 Ibs. as some of the Dutch cows weigh. The world's 

 champion cow of the present time is the Holstein cow, Rosa 

 Bonheur V, an animal actually weighing 1750 Ibs. and eating 

 daily 174 Ibs. of food (of which 52-43 Ibs. is dry matter), con- 

 sisting of 1 14 Ibs. of silage, 12 Ibs. of maize-meal, gibs, of 

 oat-meal, 3 Ibs. of bran, 9 Ibs. of oil-cake, and 27 Ibs. of roots. 

 She actually gave during a show-test, io6'75 Ibs. of milk in 

 one day, and 726*25 Ibs. in one week. Although we can 

 never expect a Bengal cow to weigh over 21 mnds., eat over 

 2 mnds. of food every day, and give 50 seers of milk a day, 

 yet we can judge from this case what the proportions should 

 be in the case of a first class cow receiving first class treat- 

 ment. The proportion of food in the case of a cow in full 

 milk should be T Vth of its weight, of which the dry matter 

 should be a little less than ^rd and it should give ./^th of its 

 weight in milk when in full milk. In warm climate the pro- 

 portion of dry matter may be jth or less. 



996. Housing. Bullocks, cows and calves should be all 

 kept in-doors during the cold and wet seasons, in a well 

 ventilated house but protected from draughts. The other 

 points to be considered in housing cattle are : (i) 500 to 700 

 cub. ft. of space for each adult animal according to size and 

 a minimum floor apace of 50 sqr. ft. should be allowed. (2) 

 There should be sufficient light and ventihition without 

 draught, the openings being high up. (3) An impervious 

 floor. (4) Plentiful supply of pure water not only for drinking 

 but also for flushing, the daily allowance being 10 gallons per 

 head. (5) A proper wide and shallow drain (3 "deep) along 

 the middle of the cow-house, the cattle standing back to back 



