KIND TREATMENT.
APPLIED TO DAIRY COWS. Visits to members of the cow-testins. associations this season have convinced Mr. W. M. Singleton, of the Agricultural Department, that a herd of heavy-produc-ing cows means not only good cows, but that good feed and careful handling are indispensable. He went among a herd this season with the owner, and saw that the cow : s considered him so much their friend that many of them stopped grazing aud flocked around him. Theso cows were on good" milk-producing feed, and the herd is one of the best tested this season. A number of herds contain cows of equal , quality, but owing to unkindly treatment and insufficient feed of tho riprht description ithe yield is much inferior to that of this herd. Kindly treatment has a cash value, and the best yields cannot Ije produced without it. Cow-testing demonstrates the value . of good feed, and induces kindly treatment. A dairy-farmer is fined in pounds, shillings, and pence for uvery unkind act of his or of his employes towards his dairy cows. Could we only seo the sum these fines amount to in a season (says Mr. Singleton) there would be better cows and more prosperous dairymen.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1242, 26 September 1911, Page 8
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200KIND TREATMENT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1242, 26 September 1911, Page 8
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