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Soiling. 



left in a manger for a time, it becomes very distaste- 

 ful to her, while to the feeder it looks bright and 

 fresh, and she gets no more, perhaps, until hunger 

 compels her to eat that up. 



Whatever you do, always remove from before the 

 cows all that is left in the mangers before giving 

 them a fresh feed. You will be surprised some time 

 to see a cow go greedily at a fresh feeding at noon, 

 when you have taken from her manger what she 

 failed to eat in the morning. 



If there is anything left in the manger, pass it 

 over to the hogs. They will be very pleased to 

 have if. 



Manner of Feeding. 



Experience has taught me that, to produce the 

 best results from milch cows, they should be. fed 

 four or five times a day. Five feedings in my ex- 

 perience have given better results than four, and just 

 as good as six. 



To think of feeding cows five times a day, when 

 the usual custom is to feed but twice, may seem like 

 a great task, but by sj'Stematizing the work it will 

 be found not nearly as difficult as one may imagine. 



Let us follow a day's work in feeding fourteen 

 head of cattle five times a day, i.e., at 5 and 8 a.m. 

 noon, and at 4 and 7 p.m. Enough feed has been 

 delivered to the barn the evening before for the first 

 morrring feeding, which the cows find in their man- 

 gers when they are let into the barn from the yard, 

 or paddock, or orchard where they have spent the 



