The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Live Stock Questions 
Answered by Dr. A. S. Alexander 
Exercise for Cows 
Can I obtain any advice as to security 
for my heifer. I have handled and cared 
for cattle all my life and understand 
them well, but have always run such 
business in my employment for farmers 
where cattle have wide range of pasture 
and have only been kept in close quar¬ 
ters during Winter months. This is my 
first experience with trying to keep a 
family cow on my own little one-acre 
home. I bought this heifer when a year¬ 
ling. She was two years old July 23 
last, and is to give birth to her first calf 
about January 8, 1924. I have a good 
crop of mangels and I feed her one peck 
of these each day, four quarts every 
morning and night, sliced, on which I 
put a little salt and a quart of one part 
bran and one part ground oats. I have 
nlentv of mixed hay, such as grows on 
old meadows, also plenty of corn fodder, 
bean pods, pea vines, etc., for roughage. 
This heifer is the offspring from a pure¬ 
bred Jersey cow and a Holstein bull. At 
'the (present time she iis considerably 
larger than her four-year-old mother, and 
she seems hearty and thrifty in all ways. 
She has never been out at liberty. The 
man I bought her of always kept her on 
a stake or tied up in some way but since 
I have had her I have kept her in a nice 
warm box stall, about 12x12 ft. and 
plenty of dry bedding. For outdoor ex¬ 
ercise she has a little yard, about 12x20 
ft. Is this is all the exercise needed? 
Fulton Co., N. Y. t. h. o. 
The false doctrine that a dairy cow 
needs only to masticate and digest feed 
to obtain exercise once was taught by 
leading educators in dairy science. It 
did much mischief and no doubt paved 
the way for tuberculosis which later 
ran riot among the dairy cows in the 
States where it was generally practiced. 
Close confinement without any question 
weakens resistance against disease and 
makes the cow susceptible to contract 
such ailments as tuberculosis, contagious 
abortion, goiter, inammitis, etc. Still 
it must be remembered that in the Chan¬ 
nel Islands whence come or came our 
Jersey and Guernsey cattle tethering is 
a common practice. That 'plan 'and 
walking from the barn and back give a 
>qonside'rable .amount of exercise and 
plenty of fresh air, but confinement in, a 
warm stable without outdoor exercise of 
any kind is highly detrimental. The 
cow in question will be likely to do well 
and calve successfully if you can have 
her take some walking exercise, to halter 
every day, so that her muscles will be 
kept in tone and her excretory organs 
active. Also groom her skin daily, if 
she is to be much indoors, and keep her 
bowels and kidneys acting normally. 
Mangels are somewhat fattening and 
should only be given daily in sufficient 
quantity to keep the bowels active. To 
the ration of ground oats and bran add 
a half part of flaxseed meal and in very 
cold weather also allow a little corn- 
meal. As calving time approaches in¬ 
crease bran and flaxseed meal and de¬ 
crease or drop out the cornmeal and 
lessen the oatmeal. The hay you speak 
of is rather poor stuff for a dairy cow 
as it does not, as a rule, contain clover 
or Alfalfa which legumes are fine feed 
for a cow. In tile future it would be 
well, if possible, to furnish clover or Al¬ 
falfa hay, or at least to give the cow 
hay that contains a good proportion of 
such legumes. As you have peavine hay, 
however, that will serve as a furnisher 
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of protein and lime, as well as a neces¬ 
sary vitamine. Feed it freely, along 
with other hay and bright oat straw or 
sound corn stover, provided it is per¬ 
fectly free from molds. Allow free access 
to salt and also supply wood ashes and 
air-slaked lime, or ground limestone, if 
the cow cares to lick such minerals. If 
she does not take them and you cannot 
feed a legume hay, better mix 4 or 5 lbs. 
of bone meal with each 100 lbs. of con¬ 
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