OUR COWS CRITICISED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 1 October 1909, Page 10

OUR COWS CRITICISED.

■SWISS • DAIRY-PAltSffiß'S:'-VIEWS ;

;i7#vr; j who'.'recentiy .-'arnved )^ttam.l di^ct^and.wb6vhai'.li'ad : fair experi«nc.o in bis ; .'country,, .told; .' : ■ ttuxt h'o is';hatenainbuvcd ■ °f.;;the .milking ; coirs lie.hiis /seen; Yand : says :.-■■■ i they--.are too much.: on -;tho .beef- side- :• inSwitzerlandthemilkiiiij vcittle '.'are", shorter on legend > long6r in', the'body/'but, ndt V??: will not gallons is. not'. ' . severed with. ' V -She, gtics under tbo; butcher's : . knife. .. Ho was surprised when; told' that !,■; often dry off a cow for a few months i to - enable. h£r to pdt. on condition prior to •• calving., In his. .land .'thpyHmilkija- cow up 'and.i'there.'is: Bo -budding : up 'condition, .as . tha : cattle'Vari" tfn*-' tbe? winter time ; aro -stalled arid'.Ttiilked.contintiouKlr.: : :' : -^Wtni,Msard; ; to ; ;.iaveraging something, lifeejoHO- 'for'' a' fair./'or' si'?'jMttf rttain; ; ;;^,bwr;infe , nde3 : ', , iSP??H»! S CW?w^d<to ? ;piiss' : bis, second' year before! hisVseryic'es iarelfequired (h'ndsonly/.one icow.'a day is;,served. .-'• Although'.-' they have ' six il;';,P o winter'in-.Switzerland .tho pasture '? EW tbe .snow >' being: tv good fertiliser, whilst -Yc;'' : -tno ■; worm; 'sttitVpUshes; the ;i -;iuVT"a. ' P L r ' anner, -The good, iiastrirag'e: has;a' ■'•".'''it-J®' <! o .^Tgith-the,lieavy,milking'of/some' of t ; nayercomo 'undor , his'' l ijoticc/- ;•• ■'■ J 16 ,' concluded,;':"you .have cows :> vvs ™#t-- ; Wofeand " probably; ;■ fitted " -for' . beel than..milk,, and iho. grass hero hardly •-. ;:_seems_to confauf the nourishment' 1 the" snow-fed ;. mix :.of : bwitzerlaiid holds'."/-' '. ,' '