THE COW AT GRASS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19455, 11 October 1926, Page 18

THE COW AT GRASS.

The farm should be subdivided into a numbei' of suitable paddocks, so that the milking cows do not run for more than a week on one paddock without a change, as through constantly walking over it the grass becomes soiled and distasteful. Consequently the cow will not eat so much as when it is sweet, as is the case when changed to fresh paddocks. The land must be kept free from strong-smelling shrubs and herbs, such as dogvvoodj pennyroyal, etc., which "when eaten taint the milk, llie animals should be looked upon as being the means of converting valuable vegetable products of the farm into more valuable animal products, and so the more an animal consumes the greater will be the conversion, consequently the profit. A cow of about 10001b. weight can eat 1001b. of grass, or its equivalent, per day, and it takes 601b. of that to keep up the system, that is, the temperature and repair waste of tissue -which is consequently takir.tr place. It is only what is oaten ever that 601b. which goes to produce profit in tho form of either meat or milk. Then if a cow only gets 801b. of fed she is only producing half the profit she is capable of. From this it will be seen the aeeessity for providing abundance of feed in some fonr. or other, and tho follv of japing more cattle than can be fully