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Time For Cows To Come In

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
April
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

A cow that drops her calf in April, is of iore profit than one that comes in earlier a the year, with the same care and feod. f your cows drop their calves in Febru,ry, or the first part of March, yoü will Lave to feed largely with grain, roots, etc., he rest of the feeding season, and you will aake an article of butter which must be old immediately, as you cannot keep Spring butter, nor can you malte bütter a3 heaply with the inercury at zero or below, is whsn thirty or sixty degrees above. By he first of June, whether you have fed ex ra or not, your üows will fall off in quanity and quality of milk, and you will have i sniall yield of butter through the rest of ;he season ; when, if they had como in six ir eight weeks later, they-Would have gono 3ut to graas heavy and strong, and oapa aio of giving the largest quantity and the best quality of buttr. By tho first of October, your cows Will ae noarly or quito dry, when if they had lropped their calves in April, you would ïave found that October was the most profitable inonth of the season-. And further, you will find this ïuonth and the aext the best to feed grain to cowa. All oows in hord shoüld drop their salves as near the same timo as possible. [f one should drop hor calf af ter you have eomnienced to pack and put away butter, io not put hor milk with the rest for two ar three weeks, as it is impossiblo to keep butter made froln it, and it will damago the rest. This is one verv comnioh source

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Old News
Michigan Argus