Rugging The Cows.
Previous to adopting the rugging system I tried various plans, as giving the cows hot feed night and morning and patting op windbreaks, bat the coat of production waa not reduced, nor the milk yield increased. Then I covered my*first cow, and was so surprised at the result that I bad to go over the testa again and again to make sore of the results, says a writer in Melbourne Leader. In the further teats in which a considerable epxenditure was made in foods for the cows, the books of the farmer showed an that whereas the cost of his butter in winter without rugs amounted to lid per lb., with the rugs he had reduced it to 6d per lb.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 151, 29 April 1909, Page 4
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124Rugging The Cows. King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 151, 29 April 1909, Page 4
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