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provide at least the roughage for twenty milking 

 cows together with the young stock and necessary 

 horses. The farm stock will then comprise twenty 

 cows, a bull, five yearling heifers, five calves and 

 three or four horses. 



The fifty acres of permanent pasture, if it is 

 fairly good, ought to provide the larger part of 

 the grazing required during the pasture periods, 

 which is only a little more than five months. 

 Later in the season we may supplement the old 

 pastures by allowing the cows to graze off some 

 of the aftermath in the meadows. The temptation 

 will be to overdo this because, while rather hard 

 on the meadows, it is excellent for the cows. 



Com silage is one of the very best and cheapest 

 of cow forages and should fill a large place in the 

 yearly menu. A cow will profitably use forty 

 pounds of silage a day and this amount will very 

 satisfactorily replace ten or twelve pounds of good 

 hay. This means four tons of silage to a cow for 

 the 200 days that she must depend mainly on stable 

 feeding. Some silage should supplement the sum- 

 mer pastures in dry weather or late in the season, 

 say a ton to a cow for this purpose, which will 

 mean that one can feed liberally, if necessary, for 

 six weeks or two months. It may be said in pass- 

 ing that a supply of silage for summer is far su- 

 perior to any scheme of growing green crops to 

 help out scanty pastures. One would better ar- 

 range for five tons of silage for each cow and some 



