FARM DAIRYING 



est and most easily handled succulent food. The 

 cows like it. It keeps them in health and keeps up 

 the milk-flow. Where Corn can be grown, no dairy 

 farm should be without a silo. 



Variety in the cow's ration is also desirable, and 

 so roots, mangels, carrots, sugar beets, one or all, 

 should be provided. A mixture of pulped roots 

 and silage is better than either fed alone. 



If from some failure, no succulent food is avail- 

 able, cut good oat straw, moisten it with water, 

 sprinkle over it a little salt and let stand a while. 

 This makes it palatable and if some meal be added 

 to it, cows will readily eat a considerable quantity. 

 Shredded or cut cornstocks may be put into a 

 silo and steamed or moistened, and thus made 

 more acceptable and digestible ; but this is a poor 

 substitute for good silage. 



I remember being in a stable in Nova Scotia 

 where fifteen cows were kept, and ^the milk was 

 sold in a mining town. All foodstuffs were very 

 expensive. The man had no roots, and corn silage 

 was out of the question, but he made a good sub- 

 stitute. His hay, mostly clover, he put through a 

 feed cutter and then into a large water-tight box. 

 In the kitchen, not far from the stable, there was a 

 large hot-water tank. He carried hot water from 

 this and poured it over the cut hay, closed the lid 



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