48 THE COW IN HEALTH AND DISEASE 



grain is corn, which is not even ground. One 

 can not expect a cow to go through a winter in 

 good shape and produce a good quantity of milk 

 on such feed. Many are now feeding silage and 

 this is helping them out of their difficulties. 

 Such feeds as linseed meal, cottonseed meal, bran, 

 roots, alfalfa and clover hay are proper for the 

 cow. 



Many of the cows on the farm are kept in an 

 open yard without any shelter at all, and others 

 are kept in a shed full of cracks through which 

 the winds blow over the animals. The stanchions 

 are either too short or are so long that the ani- 

 mal must lie in the filth and dirt, many times 

 without bedding of any kind. The surroundings 

 of cows have a great influence upon their produc- 

 tion. 



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