. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. June 30, 1900] &n« Qve&sv mrt> gpovtrnmaxu 4lo THE FARM. Feed and Milking of Heifers. The 8rst year a heifer is milked ie an im- portant era in her life, for opon the feed and care she receives during this time depends much her future capacities for milking and her yalne for the dairy. In most esses this extra care and feed are given at a loss. The heifer's teats are small and need to be devel- oped in size by much handling, even when milk cannot be obtained. Then the heifer is or ought to be growing, and thus requires for her own sustenance much of
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. June 30, 1900] &n« Qve&sv mrt> gpovtrnmaxu 4lo THE FARM. Feed and Milking of Heifers. The 8rst year a heifer is milked ie an im- portant era in her life, for opon the feed and care she receives during this time depends much her future capacities for milking and her yalne for the dairy. In most esses this extra care and feed are given at a loss. The heifer's teats are small and need to be devel- oped in size by much handling, even when milk cannot be obtained. Then the heifer is or ought to be growing, and thus requires for her own sustenance much of the same kind of nutrhion that in mature cows goes into milk- So it is often said by farmers that it takes two good heifers to equal one good cow. 80 far as profit goes it often requires more. If the heifer is handled, fed and cared for as she should be, all that she produces will be required to pay her owner for the food and care be has given her. Yet because a young heifer's teats are small and it is difficult to strip them clean, it is the practice of careless milkers to leave some milk in the udder. This milk left at the last is always the richest, and when not drawn is absorbed by the udder and goes to fatten the heifer. It dries up the milk supply before it Bhonld be dried op, and materially lessen the milk producing season all the rest of the cow's life. Oar practice while we were farming was to breed the young heifer if possible when she was not quite a year eld. In twenty months she would then have a calf by her eide, and Bhe should not be bred again for six or eight months. In this time, with plenty of feed and mainly succulent, the heifer's milk giving capacity will be developed and she will add materially to her size. This year she should be made to give all the milk possi- ble, and to keep it up for a full year or until the size of the foetus after she has been bred again makes milk production too severe a drain on her system. 8ome heifers have naturally the 'beef
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