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ounces a day. It might, as in the case of the calf, be given in the 

 form of rock salt in the manger, but had better be fed daily in the 

 food. It adds to the palatability of a food, hence is valuable as an 

 appetizer, as a food and as a stomachic. 



EXERCISE. 



Exercise when taken by the dairy cow is not immediately con- 

 ducive to milk production. On the contrary, anything that might 

 be called exertion is practically certain to lower the milk flow 

 temporarily. It would, however, be unwise to say that the dairy 

 cow shomdd have no exercise while producing milk. It is probable 

 that the allowing of a moderate amount of exercise will have a bene- 

 ficial effect upon the health of t'he animal and almost certain that 

 such exercise will advantageously affect the offspring. Turning the 

 cow out in cold winter weather, however, to shiver, if only for half 

 an hour a day, in the winter winds, is likely to prove anything but 

 healthful to the cow, economical to the farmer or advantageous to 

 the breeder. 



