Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43313, 14 April 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

Raising Dairy Covs

The one satisfactory way to acquire a choice dairy herd is to grow it. You cannot buy good cows without paying a good price. The owner of a good cow knows her value, and the ones he will sell are the ones no up-to-date dairyman will buy. • Raising calves by is easy if you know how, and do as well as you know. Wean your heifer calves on the second day; feed with warm whole mother’s milk for two weeks, and gradually reduce the quality until at the end of the fourth month they are getting straight skim. Then add a little fine corn meal, previously cooked to a mush.. The milk must be fed at a temperature of 95 degrees and in absolutely clean pails. 'Feed the calf well. As soon as she will eat hay give her lucerne and the run of good pasture. Keep her growing and in good condition, but not fat. If she tends to fatten heavily, send her to the block. Keep on friendly terms with her. Pet her, and when she calves at two years or later she will not need to be “ broken in.” If she gives fair indications of making a big butter-yielding cow, keep her. If not, sell her for what she will bring, and thus weed out all unprofitable members of the herd. After a few years of this culling, you will have a herd of cows which will be a source of pride and profit.