DRYING THE COW.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 487, 21 April 1909, Page 5

DRYING THE COW.

The food necessary to lessen milk , flow should be dry, and not calculated to force or mako the' fluid.; - It; is -almost; impossible, to step the;flow'if the ■ animalbe on grass: She - will often, calve well- out at: grass;;, but her udder will not get the rest it needs. A small supply of hay find straw will, help to produce less milk,% arid if attention. be paid so that she do not oomo to calving constipated, she'.will then run the less risk of milk fever. The : same rules will apply to tho .animal, that is leaving the herd,, for;-.the butcher.; .To 'dry her milk ,off -'first)- and'.then to fatten hor is. good procedure. Heifers should be kept in milk, up to a late period, as the milking powers of the . glands are developing,''arid need exeroise to come to full maturity. As a rule, about six weeks is tho period a . cow be'dry.but there will be. miich variation in individual animals. A dose of Epsom salts fyefore commencing to: I-.'lessen-; milk flows drives off fluid ; from the system, and is right practice. Drying drenches,such;as those made from, alum dr I Rulnhate'of'iron may follow afterwards. "