TAKE CARE OF THE COWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1733, 25 April 1913, Page 8

TAKE CARE OF THE COWS.

RUGGING DURING WINTER. Now that'bleak days ond cold nights are becoming goneral, the intelligent dairy farmer will be seeing to it that everything possiblo is dono to maintain the condition of his cows during the winter, and rugs will bo Tcnomiiicmled as one of tho first essMtnnls. Commenting on ttiy valuo of rugging cows, Mr. O'Callaghnu, Now Soutli Wales Government Dairy Expert, states that in a test token during an eight weeks' spell of wet and frosty weather, uimigfrd cons fell oft' 1 per cent, in their milk, while the cows whi:li wero rugjed at night fell off only .18 per cent, in their milk, while that if cowa were rugged day and night, through tho bleak, cold wea the.' I her." would be no loss, but a gain of 2(1 per cent., as compared with con's not rugged. Cows Hint nro rugged iiicreaso (heir milk yield on a Mmtilcr ;|u.iulity Of food, and maintain (heir condition better thai; it is po>siblo for cows to do that nrc not rugged. When' cov.'s ale icd'icod in condition by exposure In Ihe cold weather during I lie winter (hu ino.it profitable portion of the spring expire-- before the biitf.'i'-piodueing capacity i.-, once more properly restored. It is ucil known that a. cow's hutk-r-prodiioing capacity mny bo Teduced finite 50 per cent, during the seaion owing to neglect to provida waimthi.durins Ihe winter,