DAIRYING ITEMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 150, 16 June 1908, Page 4

DAIRYING ITEMS

Tin l digestive capacity (it animal? ealls for great variations in food re »piirenients. While I'invs are on pasture they natu rally lake considerable exercise. Jn grazing they walk many mile*. The majority of cows sire more <»i less "jflu-1 ions, and will soon ovcrgorg* themselves if not controlled.

' Corging -and over-feeding are both to be deprecated, and the value of steady. 4 regular feeding cannot- he over-rated. ' To furnish milk plentifully calls for succulence in the -food. To furnish ' #meat succulence is not nearly so nece.-s----1 Vary. To run a separator successfully one heconie familiar with its eonstruetion and work. If improperly managed it will do poor work. -will any oilier tool. In most dairying herd- you will usually find flie heavic.-t milker i.> a cr<>bred. lean beast, with eNceptioual milking properties, and with little or no aptitude to fatten. Those who have heen induced to pay special regard to blood in breeding for tin- increase of <the fiat percentage and the quantity of milk obtained are much too few in number. A good quantity of rich milk for ten mouths in the year is uluit every dairyman wants from every cow in the held, ami a euw that will not do this is not uorlh keeping. An inferior milker should be fattened oil as soon as >he ceases to yield a paying (juaiiUtv of milk, more especially if she tends In fatten lwr-elf. In >ome localities it pays to sell oil'an animal as soon as f«he begins to go dl'V. ! W'lten a, cow's }ifi» blood goes into her udder it appears fatuous to expect her t'» lay on jlesh. but-that is no reason why a choicely-bred and judiciouslynurtured feni;ile should not be a reasonably gooil milker and be capable of gning out eventually as ;t satisfactory butcher's hcast.