32 FEEDING WITH SUGAR BEETS, SUGAR, ETC. 



Luxury. If a cow can be surrounded with certain ease and comfort, it 

 will tend to increase her milk flow. In this matter we refer to 

 bedding, stable, warm surroundings, etc., and, even in summer, 

 there should be protection against the sun. 



Stables. Stables should be spacious and of a constant temperature not 

 too high. The beds should be sufficient and on a horizontal 

 surface. There does not appear to be any special evil effect 

 from keeping manure in the stable, but care must be taken that 

 a reasonable amount of plaster be added to combine with the 

 liberated ammonia. 



Breed and kind Dairying cannot be profitably undertaken unless due consi cl- 

 ef cow. eration is given to the nature of the cow. In most cases the 

 market value of milk depends upon its percentage of butter fat, 

 and certain breeds give more than others and are never the 

 cheapest when purchased but by careful feeding they may be 

 more profitable in the long run. The best breeds do not eat 

 more than the inferior kind, and yet the butter production may 

 be four times greater in one case than in another. 



Cows should Cows should have a trial even if highly recommended, and if 



have a trial. no ^ f oun( j U p to expectation should be got rid of. A pulp 

 ration may be suited to one breed of special characteristics and 

 not to another. The question can be reduced to a science, and 

 the ultimate result which in no country has ever been sufficiently 

 considered, is to create, as it were, a special cow suited above 

 all others to the diet offered by thorough cossette feeding. A 

 few cents more or less in the selling price of the resulting butter, 

 milk, etc., makes these arguments more and more plausible. 



Continued at- Neglect can never be made up for, and if one cannot give to a 

 tention. milch cow constant and continued attention, there will be a loss 

 in the long run. If the flow of milk for one reason or another 

 decreases, the average is below the normal during the season. 

 Kindness. The importance of kindness is too frequently overlooked in 

 the care of milch cows, and as the secretion of the milk gland 

 reaches its maximum during milking, it is then that precaution- 

 ary measures should be taken, for any unkind treatment would 

 simply lower the flow of milk from the gland. Even before or 

 after milking brutality always means nervous excitement with a 

 reducing action on the milk gland flow. Thus the milker has 



