FARM DAIRYING 



up at seven or eight months and it is difficult ever 

 after to get her to milk for ten months. For this 

 reason keep on milking her for ten or eleven 

 months, no matter how little milk you may get. 



It is better to have the heavy flow of milk in 

 the winter, when prices are higher and help more 

 plentiful. Cows coming in in November and 

 December go on the grass just when there is a 

 tendency to a falling off in the milk-flow. The 

 change to fresh pasture stimulates the secretion 

 of milk, and it is like a second freshening. 



Fall calving is better both for the cow and the 

 calf. They receive better care, and are not so 

 exposed to extremes of weather. It must be re- 

 membered that a cow must not be neglected when 

 dry. That is her building-up period, and she 

 should get plenty of good food and be in vigor- 

 ous condition at freshening time. 



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