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Feed For Milk Cows

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
July
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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One of the premium herds of Holstein cows at the Essex county cattle show last fall was fed as follows, as reported by the manager of the farm: "The snmmer f eed of these cows has been pastare which is small f or the number of cows kept, but it has an abundant supply of pure water, and plenty of shade trees; and they have been fed with two quarts gluten meal and two quarts shorts in morning, and with two quarts cornmeal in evening, with dry hay or corn fodder fcwice a day. "The winter feed consists of ensilage (corn) feed ia morning, and good English hay feed in aftenioon, with four qnarts bran and two quarts meal fed with the ensilage, and same quantity of grain fed dry, before giving them the hay in afternoon, and watered twice a day in the barn, and carded and brushed once a day. Those cows giving a heavy flow of mili are müked three times a 3ay, and fed grain three times a day. Themilk is weighed and recorded at each niilMng. The above is the grain feed for cows. Young cows are fed from one-half to three-fourths the above

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News