FARM DAIRYING 



their tenants a rebate of one-third of the money 

 expended in oil-cake. 



We must ever bear in mind that intelligent feed- 

 ing is giving the cow the right amount of the mater- 

 ials from which she is able to make milk. A cook 

 might have a barrel of flour and a sack of sugar, 

 but only three eggs ; in that case her limit would 

 be the making of but one cake which called for 

 three eggs. A cow may have an abundance of car- 

 bonaceous food, but only a limited quantity of 

 nitrogenous or protein food, and the poor creature 

 has to bring her milk production down to the limit 

 of the nitrogenous food, or take it out of her body 

 and go down in flesh. 



The best method of feeding is to prepare in 

 the morning enough feed for two meals, mixing 

 the cut straw, silage, and pulped roots together 

 in a pile in the feed room adjoining the stable. 

 Let this stand several hours before feeding. Put 

 the meal on top of this roughage when in the 

 manger. The meal when eaten in this way is bet- 

 ter digested; for, if taken alone, it is apt to be 

 carried out of the first stomach by the water the 

 cow may drink, before the digestive juices, which 

 are abundant in the first stomach, have had time 

 to act on it. 



Feed twice a day, giving all the cows will eat 



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