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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1909 



Dan Beard's " Guns and Gunning" 



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The Care of the Cow 



DURING the recent anti-tuberculosis show at 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 

 in New York, one of the exhibits was a model cow- 

 stable with a cow as a necessary adjunct. To those 

 of us who were raised in the country it was amusing 

 to note the intense interest with which many of 

 the visitors viewed this cow. It seemed to be the 

 first opportunity that many of the people on the 

 East Side of New York had ever had to view a 

 cow at close range. 



The object of this exhibit was to show what a 

 sanitary cow-barn really should be. The building 

 was of frame construction with a concrete floor 

 and iron stanchions. It was extremely light, 

 the cow was fed from the floor, and the concrete 

 construction enabled the thorough washing of the 

 building by a hose. The woodwork was white- 

 washed with a mixture containing carbolic acid 

 and other disinfectants. There were no places 

 for dust and disease germs to find a lurking 

 place. 



This kind of a building would be quite a revela- 

 tion to farmers who are used to the old-fashioned 

 way and assume that a sanitary cow-barn must be 

 something elaborate. It was the very simplest form 

 of construction, and in its very simplicity was its 

 virtue. By means of shades the windows could 

 be darkened to keep out the flies. 



Everyone who has had experience with dairy 

 cattle appreciates the value of keeping them con- 

 tented as well as clean. This is especially true of 

 stall-fed cattle, which are merely machines for con- 

 verting the products of the farm into milk and 

 butter. 



A high-bred dairy cow is an extremely com- 

 plicated organism. You may regard her as a 

 machine which is being worked to its highest 

 efficiency. For this reason the importance of 

 ministering to her needs is not so much a humani- 

 tarian problem as a question of dollars and cents. 

 The better care we take of our cows the more profit 

 we get from them. Repeated tests have shown 

 that there is an appreciable difference in the yield 

 of milk from cows that are worried or annoyed by 

 children, dogs, flies, and so on, and from those 

 that are kept quiet and undisturbed. 



The matter of feeding dairy cattle has been 

 worked out with extreme accuracy by the various 

 experiment stations. For the purpose of calcu- 

 lation the quantity of grass eaten by the average 

 cow under the average pasture conditions is con- 

 sidered ten units. In the early summer when grass 

 is plentiful this quantity will amount to perhaps 

 fourteen units and to less than four food units 

 in the late fall. At the latter season the deficiency 

 must be supplied by other foods. 



One pound of any of the concentrated feeds, 

 such as cereals, mill refuse, oily meals, etc., is 

 considered one food unit, and may be calculated 

 as equivalent to three pounds of good meadow hay, 

 four pounds of poor hay, ten pounds of rutabagas, 

 twelve pounds of turnips, four pounds of potatoes, 

 ten pounds of green fodder, six pounds of butter- 

 milk, six pounds of skim -milk and twelve pounds of 

 whey. Any of these ingredients will be equivalent 

 to one pound of new milk. 



The following table is often used by dairymen 

 as a basis for estimating the ration value of different 

 stock foods. It is estimated that one hundred 

 pounds of good hay will possess the same feeding 

 value as: 

 Wheat 44i pounds 



Corn 



Clover, red, green 



Beets 



Beans 



Barley . 



Carrots 



Oil cake, linseed 



62 i 



373 

 669 



28 



58 

 37i 



43 



Buckwheat ..... "J&i 

 • • -59 



• 53^ 



• 360 



■ 374 



■ 347 



Oats 

 Rye 



Potatoes 

 Peas, dry 

 Oat straw 

 Clover, red, dry 

 Turnips 



Carrot leaves (tops) 

 Rye straw 

 New Jersey. 



• 469 



• 135' 

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John Harrison 



