APPENDIX Q 



COPENHAGEN DAIRY COMPANY'S REGULATIONS 



Regulations regarding the supply of milk to the " Kjdbenhavns Malke- 

 forsyning." 



A. — Feeding and Treatment of the Cows. 



1. The food for the cows should be quite fresh and in a good state of 

 preservation, without anything liable to communicate abnormal flavour or 

 colour to the milk. 



2. In summer the cows should be put out in pasture, and have no other 

 food than grass and clover ; only in case of need is it permissible to give dry 

 food and cut com, and then only in the open air. It is forbidden to leave them 

 in the byres at this period of the year. 



3. The farmer should arrange with the company beforehand about the food 

 to be given to the cows in the winter. 



4. In any case he must conform to the following rules : — 



(a) Roots. Carrots and beet should be given in the proportion of li 

 bushels for each cow, but on condition that they are mixed with at least 

 5 lbs. of corn, bran, and oil-cake. Cows which furnish milk for infants 

 should only be given them in the proportion of \ bushel. Turnips, 

 chonx-raves, rutabaga, turnip tops are to be excluded. 



{U) Oil-cake. Colza and toumesol-cake should only be given in the propor- 

 tion of at most I lb., mixed with at least 5 lbs. of com and bran. Cows 

 which furnish milk for infants should not have any. 



{c) The use of any distillery refuse is forbidden. 



5. Before bringing the cows in in the autimin, their tails, hind-quarters, and 

 udders should be clipped. 



6. The times of calving should be regulated so that the quantity of milk 

 dispatched to the company during the months of September and October, is 

 not less than the average quantity during the first four months of the year. 



7. The farmer who wishes to deliver a larger quantity of milk than usual,, 

 must arrange with the company beforehand. 



8. The milk of recently calved cows must not be used during the first 

 fourteen days of lactation ; the company will also refiise the milk of diseased 

 cows or of cows giving more than a maximum of 6 litres a day. 



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