Economic Farming.
The Dairy Commissioner of Canada, addressing a meeting of farmers on the above subject, said economy means doing something during the long winter season. " I know very few men who got all they want by working five months in the yea t \ I would have my cow work as long as I have to work myself. If you make a heifer with her first calf milk ten months you create the tendency in her to keep that up, and in a short time you will have established a habit which will be transmitted to the progeny. I will find you herds of cows which do nob go dry at all. If a cow begins the milking ■eason in the fall of the year, instead of in' the spring, she will soon give 80 per cent more milk within the twelve month*, and, by the closest calculation, it dpas not reqire more than 25 per cjo! more food to keep her milking than dry if kept it proper coadiion in
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 6, Issue 40, 25 June 1895, Page 3
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171Economic Farming. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 6, Issue 40, 25 June 1895, Page 3
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