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The cows must not be given any old or musty food 

 nor allowed to drink from a filthy pond or mud-hole. 

 Pure water and pure food. 



A variety of food is also to be desired, and this can 

 be had by everyone by a little extra labor. 



In winter feed liberally of bran, roots, corn meal 

 and hay, to keep up the quantity. The sugar beet or 

 mangel wurzel are very good roots to feed as they give 

 no odor to the milk or butter, while the flavor of the 

 turnip or cabbage is easily detected ; but whatever is 

 fed, let it be the best — the best is cheapest, even for the 

 cows. You can not get food too good. Provide warm 

 stables with good light and ventilation; there is no 

 economy in an open shed or in a shed with great cracks 

 through which the wind may sweep. 



A room with a half open door or window requires 

 much fuel to warm it, and as the food of the cow is 

 in part used to warm her body, she will need much 

 more in a draughty stall or stable than in one that is 

 snug and warm. 



Do not let your cows out in cold or disagreeable 

 weather, except for a short time. There is always a 

 shrinkage from exposure. Good food and plenty of it, 

 pure water, warm quarters well ventilated, and you have 

 furnished your cow the means to accomplish the purpose 

 for which she is kept — the greatest possible amount of 

 milk or butter at the least expense. After you have 

 attended to all these points you must still further extend 

 your watchfulness to the care of the milk and cream. 

 You can not have good butter without the greatest care 

 in the dairy. In this department there is ofttimes a 

 lack of convenient and labor-saving appliances and the 

 same farmer who next summer will bring home the latest 

 improved mower and binder will allow his wife to care 



