The Globe Republican

What Feed and How Much.

An experienced dairy woman comes at the question of feeding the cow in the following breezy way: "I have one fixed belief which nothing can alter, and that is that so long as the food is not too rich or concentrated a milking cow should have all she can eat, except for the three months previous to calving. And even then it is quite possible that I err in reducing the feed too much, but I am so afraid of milk fever that I prefer to err, if at all, on the safe side. Take a lot of cows in pasture. Some are soon satisfied and lie down, while others continue eating, as though they could never get enough. We don't go out to the pasture with a scientific book in one hand and stop those cows from eating and tell them they have had enough--so much digestible matter, so much starch and so much fat, etc., and that if they are not satisfied they ought to be, and have got to quit. Not at all. We recognize that the cow is the best judge in the pasture, and to a great extent I think she should be the best judge in the stable, too, if we are reasonably careful as to what her ration is composed of."