FOOD FOR DAIRY COWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 144, 12 March 1908, Page 2

FOOD FOR DAIRY COWS.

It has been noted before that-a Very small addition, (of. meal or, crushed , grain'.! to nidro W.ky>!,. .less concentrated >food. gives: siiranything , that 1 : wi(l help the.,dairyman"to.;weather. the winter cheaplybut,, successfully,is : .y valuable; i;'-■' We' t frpni.la Danish ; journal-the following "adyi<»^6.nv\th'evs^'ccC!6f- - HA&sitoii >prpvement. pf; mi}k,, by; givingj:.a'':"ju'dicious 1 amount, of: oats ;tocattle;: .Tho writer recotnmehds. > the 'giving of . oats in , small ; qiian-', the.f inilki .is-'-'watery,-; .-ai»d- • jsdys"' that about; Jib. :i or,, Jib., would -be sufficient 1 P®T; Vper;di?y"ivThis,' the• authority in: states,-y.might■ .be.,-accepted with:--a' certain- amount of-,hesitatipn' hai-'itr not been proved in a;.definite, manner by experiments 'fM-% of; hM ( .a^XpfJ favourable; influence, not only iipon .of .fatty matter, : 'but*.also' ; 'upon' the taste, of the milk and the -butter, made;: moreover,'-'thero ,is an increaso in the; pro-.-duc.tioii: ; of ' . milk and •■butter, in, consequence: • The contention' ,is supported by an exporinient ,v;'hic.h -\vas mado -on 10 cows,; divided, into, two groups 'of five eacli, in such • 4 : 'wfiiy .as. to ensure .'that their' milk production was: ; almost',-identical. >; Aftcr ; >,a (certain .first group received, as a supplementary' ra--tion,. about llb.of .oats per .head daily'.': Even' assbonasthosecondday-thefavourable-'in-fluence of this method.jvas."apparentj '^and:.'it' lasted, till ;the 'tenth day,- The milk was very l good, having a fine nutty flavour i tho butter was, better, and. the cattle -in' good (jonditipn.-