I06 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW. 



It must be obvious, therefore, that such food is useless 

 for the purpose of producing cream and butter. I con- 

 sider grains utterly inadmissible for the dairy cow, and 

 mangel only to be used in the manner before stated as 

 a change of diet. 



The cow and the horse can well pasture together, 

 but no other animal should be allowed to run in the 

 same field, pigs and poultry spoiling and tainting the 

 feed. All rank weeds must be carefully eradicated, and 

 garden refuse kept out of the cow's reach, especially 

 shrubs, yew-hedge cuttings, etc., these things being 

 often poisonous, and occasioning the cow to slip her 

 calf. The same remark will apply to dead and putrid 

 matter. 



Let the pasture be free from ponds or other dirty 

 drinking-places, where the water is fouled and rendered 

 unwholesome by decayed matter or the drainage from 

 dung-heaps, and by the habit which cattle have of stand- 

 ing and manuring in it for hours together. A clean tub 

 or tank should be used for watering the cattle, and kept 

 supplied with pure, sweet water, which, if pumped from 

 a well, should be exposed to the air a considerable time 

 before use. 



Cows should be taken in about sunset, or before* they 

 are preparing to rest for the night, and on no account 

 allow them to be hurried to or from pasture, especially 

 when full of milk. 



Cows should always in winter be well fed, regularly 

 fed, and sufficient food of the right kind. Twice a day 



