WINTER FEEDING.
LOOKING AFTER THE DAIRY COW. Towards the end of last winter, and in the early spring, a very considerable mortality occurred among dairy cows in certain'district?, the cause of death being nothing more or less than sheer starvation. I'iirther, says the Agricultural Department's Journal, many other cows came to their calving ?o reduced in condition through lack of sufficient feed that they must prove unprofitable to thenowners, the food they got, when it did come along, being principally utilised liy nature to build up their debilitated .systems, instead of its pruper proportion being available for milk-production, ilus unfortunate shite of things was. of course, the result of tho unusually dry nature of the summer and the early nntuimi of last season; and though it is unlikely that the same climatic conditions will again prevail this year, yet the objectlesson lurnisiied should make dairy-farm-ers realise the absolute necessity for providing a sufficiency of proper winter feed for their stock. In bush districts it is not easy—in some cases practically impossible—to save hay or grow roots, ljiit the provision of ensilage, at any rate, should be finite feasible.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 8
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188WINTER FEEDING. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 8
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