CLIMATE AFFECTS COWS
MORE SENSITIVE TO HEAT A team of agricultural scientists in the United States set out to study the effect of extremes of heat and cold upon the production of dairy cows. Their investigations showed that a dairy cow is more sensitive to heat than she is to cold, and in very hot weather, where no adequate shelter was provided, her production could drop away very rapidly. Even turning a herd into a lush growth of lucerne after they had been in a bare unsheltered paddock, effected an improvement in their production at the following milking. Where a reasonable amount of shade is lacking farmers would me well advised to plant quick-grow-ing varieties of trees, for on the tusis of these American findings,
shade is not only a payable proposition, but a necessity on a dairy farm,
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 19 (Supplement)
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139CLIMATE AFFECTS COWS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 19 (Supplement)
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