Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1913 — Feeding the Cow. [ARTICLE]

Feeding the Cow.

A small cow may really "carry larger digestive organs, of more active ability, than a larger one, so that more food can be eaten, digested and asimilated. It must not be supposed that the advocates of the special purpose dairy cows of smaller siae put forth the claim that the small cows eat somewhat less feed than the larger ones, but rather that after having eaten as much as the other the smaller cow has much more to use in making milk. It is a fact well known that a cow of dairy formation and medium size, but with large and well adjusted digestive organs, will consume and digest quite as much feed as a much larger animal of toe type of the beef maker. It should go without saying that the beefy cow must maintain the flesh as wen as make jnilk from feed ooaaumed. —lndiana Farmer