. A. B. C. in butter making;. Butter. 10 milk. If this old belief were correct, we should be able to make "Holsteins" give "Jersey" milk! We want to feed all a cow will pay for—no more, no less. WHAT CARE DO YOU GIVE YOUR COWS? The right cows being secured and the right feed given at regular hours, we may yet lose the advantages gained if the cows are kept shivering in the lea of a strawstack or suffocat- ing in a dark, close stable. If she is left to shiver in fall rains and snow, the cow will not only utilize a large amount of her feed as a fuel to keep warm, (an expensiv
. A. B. C. in butter making;. Butter. 10 milk. If this old belief were correct, we should be able to make "Holsteins" give "Jersey" milk! We want to feed all a cow will pay for—no more, no less. WHAT CARE DO YOU GIVE YOUR COWS? The right cows being secured and the right feed given at regular hours, we may yet lose the advantages gained if the cows are kept shivering in the lea of a strawstack or suffocat- ing in a dark, close stable. If she is left to shiver in fall rains and snow, the cow will not only utilize a large amount of her feed as a fuel to keep warm, (an expensive firewood, indeed), but, as experi- ments in Denmark have shown, she will change the composi- tion of the butterfat in her milk so much that the butter is liable to be mistaken for oleomargarine! I have no doubt this is the r£al cause of that lack of flavor every fall, for which our butter merchants blame the "frozen ; There is no need of providing fancy stables. We may even make fairly good ones with a clay floor and the walls and roof of straw, if we only provide ventilation and light. The latter calls for the heaviest cash outlay, but sashes are now so cheap and the value of light of so great importance to the health of the cows that there is no excuse for not having plent}' of it. As to ventilation, I give a cross section of a stable 14 feet by 36 and 8 feet high. A wooden flue or two A A is placed along one wall and made high enough to give some draft at least four feet above the ridge of the roof. On the opposite . wall are inserted * two or three flues like B B, or, if the wall is a double boarded one, the air may be taken in by leaving a board out between two studs on the outside at K (on the piece of wall shown) and another one on the inside at N, but in that case a board M should be ***. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these ill
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