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Winter Dairying

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
September
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The better class of livers in tl United States are bezinning to di mand good fresh butter instead the Kilted article whioh has hitr erto been eaten through the wint months. lu consequence those farmer, who try to please the palate by produo ing a sweet, nutty-tasting commodity. will reap tlieir reward by reeeiving : romunerating price. Setting aside fancy prices it is certain that a good fair raio will always be paid for butter which can be depended upon to come to hand weekly in uniform quality. The best butter-maker in the l'uited Status fails unleaa the eows aro fed properly, therefore, there must be the right sort oí food. The hay shoukl be made f rom gra-ss cut when in bloom, and this alone will do, but some corn meal and wheat bran will increaso the cream and adfl t o t lie rich ilavor of the butter. Also the use of car roto will cause a greater flow of milk and tliere will be then tltc peculiarly fresh taste which character i.es butter wien cows are in good past ure in Juno. Oí course corafortabU stabling, eleanliness aud exereise in sheltered }atd will be requisito for ful success. The cows shouid have theii calves in September or thereabout, and the heifër calves from all good milkers shouid be rais'ed, which can be done oi the skimined milk. In the autumn there is no forage food of any kind, better for milch cow as a help to failmg pasture than pum kins. 1 have usedthem freelv foryeas wiih the best resulta, and lind the fea of the seeds all nonsense. At the pres ent time I have a line lotgrowing atnooj the corn and abont three acres plante near the barn, which togother will b. suffideait to last lili Christnias if I ci' secure a port ion of thein from f rost Afler the punipkins are gone, carrol, are better tlian any öther variety o roote, and if fedtill grass cornos agaii there need be no loss of qu.ility in the butter. The quantity of the milk will be equal to the best grass season, and will depend upon the cows. Any man having common sehse, and managino properly, caü obtain doublé the average piveu by oows of the kind usually met with, if ho will buy good ones and breed from none but deep milkers, and from bulls wiiicli are from a deep ïug

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Ann Arbor Democrat