Management Of Dairy Stock

In" a paper on this subject, recently read by Dr. A. S. lleath bef ore the New York Farmers' Club, many valuable suggestions were made upon the subject of feeding daáry stock. Grass causes the most liberal secretions of delicious milk. But this condition of young, succulent and plentiful grass cannot be relied upon as alone sulncient fooil for the largest milk. productioQ for more than sixty days of the whole ycar. The rest of the three huudred and five days the cows must have extra feed. This must consist of the different kinds of foddur for the different Boasons. In the earlyscoson, green rye, green oats, earlier and later roots, green oorn and hay. But green oorn cannot be proütably fed till in early tassel, nor should corn mea] be fed in hot vveathcr, nor for the same reasou shonld oottonsced moal and linseed cake be fed until the cool or cold season, for less animated heat is required to be suppliedto the COW. Pure water and salt must be supplied to milch cows ad libitum, as eightyBeven per cent. of the milk consists of water, and where salt is gparinely supplied the digestivo powers of the cow are enfeebleu, and the railk ; defective in keeping quality, and piv. . ly, also, in quantity and quallty. ( 'are, kindness, quiet, moderate exercise, regular and judicious feeding are all important factors in milk supply. The largest percentage oí flavor in chee.se and butter is found in young grasses, but in very young fodder-corn tlirst! essential qualities - caseine, butler, sugar and aroma -are deficiënt, luit im prove up to the time of early Qow'erlng, when the sweet-corn fodder is ;it its nest, and should be fed with shorts or bran sprinkleü over the cut and wilted fodder. (ireen oals is a gcod soilingm-o]), and bi-an is an admiraole food in a slop. It produces a largo quautity of milk, and it can be fed with sufety in the hottest weather. Moal may be added to bran as the weather becomes coolcr. Milk removes niuch phosphato of linie, and the pastures should be sown with ground bones or rock phosphateof linie. Wool removes sulphur, and therefoiv sliecp pastures ai'c iniproved by piaster or sulphate of linie. Ashes and salt are of the bighest valuo to pastures. But when the pastures luive too far failed, it is bettcr economy to plow them up as fast as possible, and sow them to pasture grasses and seed to oats, to slrade the young shoots and tentter roote. Bfeadows may be pastured in the dry sevson alter the erop has been removed, but never in the carly spring or late fait. The air supplies most of the organic matter, and thus helps to keep the land good when we sell otl' part of the producís, which are a part of the farm or soil itself. Good milk requires good sound food, and a large yield of milk requires a large supply of good sound food. Warm and afary .-tables, great cleanlinésa with the animal and lier producís. judicious feeding of eows, and feeding of pastures, are the indispensable means to supply milk in qualily, qaanHty, and soundness capable of resisting deeay.