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from can rack, and so on until we have finished, but one cover being 

 used for all the cans. If the cooling process is begun at once, stirring 

 and cooling, there is not likely to be any trouble in regard to the keep- 

 ing qualities of the milk, provided the utensils used are thoroughly 

 cleaned. 



At present we feed twenty-six bushels of shelled corn finely ground 

 mixed with nine hundred pounds of coarse, flakey bran. The fodder 

 from which this corn has been threshed furnishes the roughage; with 

 the exception of one feed of Hungarian a day — the stalks are cut about 

 four inches long. 



The first thing in the morning they are given a feed of grain, when 

 we have finished milking, give them the cut stalks. About eight o'clock 

 they are turned out and stables cleaned, after which they are given their 

 next feed of grain, then salted and fed the Hungarian, after noon fed 

 again with cut stalks. 



About four o'clock the mangers are swept out and they are given 

 their third feed of grain. Before commencing to milk, give a light feed 

 of stalks, also another after we finish. 



We usually feed half and half by weight, corn meal and bran, but at 

 present are feeding some heavier of meal. Averaging the dairy, the 

 cows consume a fraction over twenty pounds a day of ground feed. 



We have found by weighing the feed for several days each winter, 

 that that ia about all a cow of 1100 or 1200 pounds weight will eat, and 

 not get off her feed, and have a good appetite. We aim not to overfeed; 

 they are not all fed the same. Here is one of the fine points in dairying. 

 To obtain the best results the feeder must know his cows. 



(It has been my experience that winter dairying is more profitable 

 than summer. It takes less land to produce the feed than it does in 

 summer, where pasture is used. A cow will give more milk for a longer 

 period. She is waited upon, her meals are brought to her, she eats, 

 drinks, lies down in her well-bedded stall the picture of content. She 

 has become sleek and fat, she has turned the raw material from the farm 

 into the finished product. 



