ECONOMIC FEEDING OF DAIRY COWS. 



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she will be more liable to take cold. During the period when the cow is 

 being brought to full feed she should be encouraged to consume a large 

 quantity of roughage, and to this end a variety of tempting morsels may be 

 given her. 



While the routine of the barn work may be adjusted to your convenience, 

 strict regularity should be observed in all things to maintain as much as 

 possible the pace of the cow's system, secured when she is in full flow. If 

 feeding or milking is delayed, the elaboration of milk is interrupted and 

 the flow lessened. So in order to get a full yield for a long time everything 

 should be done with strictest regularity. The milking should be done in 

 such a way that a cow will receive the largest possible satisfaction from this 

 semi-daily event. 



Since many of our readers 'may be out of practice in figures and find 

 it irksome to calculate the nutrients in a given quantity of food stuff and 

 the cost of a ration, the following tables are submitted giving the digestible 

 nutrients in a given number of pounds of the various common standard 

 feed stuffs, the cost of a pound of feed at a given price per bushel, and, the 

 cost of one pound at a given price per ton: 



TABLE GIVING COST OF ONE POUND AT A GIVEN PRICE PER TON. 



