GOOD HEALTH IN CATTLE
Xu the course of a talk with a “Dairyman” representative, a dairy farmer of wide experience recently returned from a world four, said inter alia: “No cow can give good milk unless her body is in a good, sound healthy condition.
“Cow’s milk contains about 87 per cent, water, yet on how many farms do we see the cattle drinking from stagnant pools, drains, and dams. “[ would say that, to improve the industry we must improve the water supply to our cattle, improve the winter feeding feed by making it a little more binding in the spring months, and give more attention to the rearing of vour future dairy herd.”
This bears out the emphatic advice given by Agriculture Department experts on many occasions, that two great needs for milking cattle were a balanced ration and ample supplies during the winter and early spring and ample supplies of good fresh water, easilv obtainable.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 January 1931, Page 14
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