DONT'S FOR FARMERS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 120, 9 December 1938, Page 4

DONT'S FOR FARMERS

HANDLING OF LIVESTOCK Don’t allow your cows to feed on root crops when in flower; they may cause senous or fatal digestive uisoruor. Don’t permit stock, especially pigs, tot eat mangolds (1.) when freshly pulled, (2) when commencing to snout hl spring. Green icaves and young shoots are deadly poisons. Don’t leave the teat cups on after the milk lias ceased tin How. If not ready t<> strip remove the cups and hang them up. Machines lett on too long are. the commonest cause of udder trouble. Don’t increase the vacuum because the cows are not milking out well. Overhaul your rubbers and find the leak. Don’t allow your cows to drink out of zitie-lined vessels or pipes unless the water is running lyDon’t- put a twitch on a horse’s nose when giving a drench. Don’t attempt to drench a. cow with milk fever. Don’t forcibly tear away the membranes if retained after calving. Don’t allow a hot tired horse to drink unlimited cold water. Don’t give an exhausted horse a. large Iced of oats. Don’t feed spoiled or mouldy hay to stock. Atolasses may poisuade stock to cat it, hut will not- prevent digestive disorders. .Don’t) allow your cows to graze on green crops ad. lib., unless you feed out ample hay; if yen do beware of red water.

Don’t feed ciilves out of dirty buckets; if you do you will strike trouble with scours. Don’t strip a had quarter on to the Hour; milk it into a tin containing some disinfectant. Don't milk another cow after one suH’ering from mastitus or sore teats without first thoroughly washing tluo hands. It is always preferable to milk cows with affected udders last.