FEEDING DAIRY COWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 63

FEEDING DAIRY COWS

A writer in “Health Culture-’’ disposes of the question of feeding dairy cows as follows: “She should be kept in a very clean stable, and bo well groomed; have plenty of light, fresh air all the time, exercise—at the risk of less production —pure water, and pure food, free from brewers’ waste, distillery refuse, and alcoholic ensilage. Those fermented foods permeate her flesh, and give an odour and taste to her products, and the odours arising .from these foods poison the atmosphere breaths-—in fact, she is an inebriate, and cannot produce normal milk on such abnormal food. So important is thus matter that the condensing factories refuse to use milk from cows fed upon these- fermented foods, as it will not keep when condensed and canned. Such milk sours more quickly, and is not- fit for infants; indeed, it makes them sick, and dairymen will not feed their own children with it, and will furnish milk for infants if requested.”