FLOCK & HERD
PROVISION FOR THE WINTER Where it' is available, or can be procured, a little crushed maize, or indeed any grain meal with a high oil and carbohydrate content—such as linseed — will do wonders in carrying both dairy cattle and breeding ewes through the winter in good, healthy condition. If the cows are fed a little in their bails at each milking a wonderful improvement in their condition will be noticed. It is better to give this feed now, so as to build up reserves of heat-produc-ing condition, than to wait until the cows have lost condition later in the winter and must be built up again. The cost of feeding now will, be repaid many times over in the extra milk at early calving. The same applies to breeding ewes which are to lamb early. The lambs will be bigger, stronger and fatter when born if the ewes are fed a supplement in autumn rather than in winter, and the ewes will have a bigger flush of milk to carry the lambs on in rapid growth and fattening.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1938, Page 3
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