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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 137, 17 June 1926, Page 3

Those who do not believe that It pays to give the cow a good rest between lactation periods should take two or three cows in tide herd as nearly alike as they can be secured, and, dry them off according to different systems. Give one a two months’ rest on hay, a little silage and water. Milk the second one to within two weeks of calving and feed her as you would normally feed; and give the third one a rwo months’ rest with a’ll the hay pasture, in addition to 51b. of a good milking grain ration until within two weeks of calving, at which time she Should, be cut down to a mixture of three parts bran, three parts oat crop, and one part oil meal. It is well said that a bag of feed before calving is worth two bags afterward. .

'Steady progress is being made in the direction of proper grading of Canadian farm products for the home market as well as for export (says a writer in the Times Trade Supplement). In an effort to meet the increasing competition of butter from Western Canada, where compulsory grading of cream has been in force for years, Ontario has adopted the compulsory cream-grading system, effective on May Ist. The Ontario grades and regulations will correspond closely with those of the Western. Provinces. Regulations are understood to have been issued recently under the Federal legislation of 1921, providing for grading of- dairy produce for export. These regulations were to become effective on February Ist. While details of the new regulation are not yet available, any changes are expected to be in the,direction of a stiffening of grade requirements. O, sail with me o’er sapphire seas And leave the cares of life behind, ’Mid reef and palm and spicy breeze A freer, calmer fa+° you’ll find. O, quit the stress for fame and wealth. And ail its toil and hate abjure, For coughs and colds which mar good health Bring- Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. (10)