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mistake. I am not an advocate of winter cheese making. The 

 time for cows to be fresh is from March 15 to April i. A cow 

 can be kept at less expense with less labor for the dairyman ii 

 she begins to produce milk when the spring opens. Grass will 

 be abundant for the first few months, during which time she 

 needs no extra feed. After the summer advances and the dry 

 season comes, then is the time when the cow needs attention — 

 in fly time. No cow should be neglected at this time. A quan- 

 tity of good feed should be provided. There are people who 

 think grain wasted if fed during the summer season to cows 

 which are used for the dairy. Again, there are those who feel 

 that while the milk flow may be decreased, yet the quality of this 

 will be greater. This is a mistake; with the decreased flow of 

 milk comes the decrease in quality. A light feed at this season 

 of the year will be found to much advantage to the careful ob- 

 server. If nothing is put in the cow surely nothing w^ill be 

 realized from her. 



Bran which can be purchased at an approximate price of 

 $1.40 per hundred is very beneficial. I would suggest that the > 

 dairymen plan to have green sweet corn during the dry season, \ 

 to keep cows up in milk until fall feed starts. 



Again, there are dairymen who advocate the creamery when I 

 the skimmed milk can be utilized to raise calves. My experi- 

 ence has been that calves raised on skimmed milk are not profit- 

 able. Skimmed milk tends to retard the growth of calves. In- 

 stead of calves growing into money during the first season, we 

 have the contrary result. 



My patrons claim that whey fed to hogs is profitable. A 

 hog will thrive on whey and I maintain that the careful feeding 

 of whey to the herd of hogs will produce greater results than 

 to attempt the raising of calves on skimmed milk. Again, I 

 have observed that where the whey has been fed to hogs, in a 

 community quite general, there has never been the disease so | 

 common to hogs, called cholera. 



Many patrons think that during the spring and fall of the 

 year when the weather is cool, milk needs little attention. This 



