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are cabbage, turnips, onions, silage, wild leeks, and the like. It is 
held that such odors may be imparted to the milk in two ways: 
first, by transference through the animal, and second, by absorp- 
tion from the air of the stable. 
242. Order of supplying food. — Because of the supposed ill 
effect of some foods in giving odors to the milk, the order of supply- 
ing certain of these foods assumes much importance. In the case 
of cabbage, turnips, and the like, it is perhaps best that they be 
fed after milking. Hay, which is likely to contain more or less 
dust, is best fed after milking also, and in either of these cases 
grain would necessarily be fed first. Perhaps the ideal way is to 
feed the grain and succulent food together, sprinkling the grain 
over the succulent food, and then when these are both cleaned up, 
to feed the hay. A good order for the day’s work is as follows: 
in the morning, milk first, then feed grain, then silage, clean stable, 
water, feed hay, groom the animals, then, on pleasant days, turn 
them out for an hour or so. In the afternoon, water, clean stables, 
feed grain, milk, feed silage, arrange bedding, and lastly feed some 
long hay. Sufficient attention is not usually given to the day’s 
program, in the dairy business. 
243. Effect of food on quantity of milk. — Occasionally the state- 
ment that we cannot increase the percentage of fat in milk by feed- 
ing is taken to mean that we cannot increase the total fat yield. 
This, of course, is not true. We can very materially increase the 
total yield of fat by increasing the total flow of milk by liberal 
feeding. This is demonstrated on every hand. On the farms 
where no succulent food is fed during the winter,.and very little 
grain, it is well known that the cows will give a much larger flow 
when turned to pasture in the spring. On the average the per- 
centage of fat will remain the same. 
244. Watering the milking cow.— The milch cow requires a 
liberal supply of water. She not only has the demands of her body 
to meet, but must supply water for the milk as well. When we 
recall that cows have yielded over one hundred and thirty-four 
