The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1873-02-27
How 70 acquire . Datry Of Coed Cows.

Nov " SC4uatO D0sEy VI OOV0 OVWss
= There can be no greater mistake made
by dairymen, than the indiscriminate
slaughter, annually, of dairy cows, and
the constant importation of cows to re-
plenish their diaries.
First get good male from some of
the best known and most approved
breeds of mixers. If you cannot do
this, then save . male from the best
COW you have, or if your neighbor has
better COW, then get one from his herd.
having done this, then save and raise all
the heifer calves from your best cows,
and continue this process. As fast a.
these become cows dispose Of the older
and poorer ones of your herd, by fatten-
ing them for market.
The dairy will, IN this way, become
replenished with choice lot of young
and healthy native cows, which arc de-
cidedly the best. First, you can rear
thom to your liking; by kind and gen.
tie treatment they become dOcile and
tractable, easily handled aud kind TO the
mixer, and free from bad habits of
jumping and kicking, which they will
hardly ever have, unless they are taught
by o mean aud unkind temper in the
person who has the first management of
young cows. Then again, you can rear
your cows to be orderly and always in
the lot where you put them. They are
moro hardy, will stand the winters better,
and rs you have raised them you know
the requirements of their natures. Some
are more tender than others, require q
little moro care, or different feeding at
the different seasons of the year, and
you arc prepared to act according to the
requirements of the case.
Then, by raising his own cows, the
farmer stands credited by the value Of
the cows, which will prove quite rs re-
munerative, in point of dollars and cents,
Is to look for the whole income from
the amount of surplus butter and cheese
sold. Judging from the later tendency
ofprices in this last commodity, it could
be made moro profitable to raise and sell
. few choice young native cows than to
pursue the opposite course of buying
milch COWS. In 90 doing you often run
. great risk Of getting animals gargety,
foot rotten and diseased in many ways,
which often infect the balance of the
then healthy cows that you have on
hand.
You also bring unruly COWS to your
farm, which the other learn their bad
habits BY letting the whole herd into
your meadows and grain fields.
What 10 true Of ourselves is in many
cases true of other people. If We have
any cows to sell they are commonly and
almost invariably our poorer ones. So
with most Of the cows found m the cat
ueyards. They are the diseased, the
unruly, the hard mixers, those that leak
their milk, the kickers, and the bad gen.
orally. More than al this, they are
abominably poor cows, and, ~ they are
not worth keeping, they have been sold,
and can BE- bought in the open market
BY any ono who is verdant enough to
want them, or Who from necessity 10 COM
PEELED to purchase COWS. This may not
apply in Ill cases, for there arc almost
always exceptions to the general rule,
bat there can b bat little doubt that the
shove 10 true in majority of cases, -
the bitter experience Of many who rsad
this can testify. 80
There 10 but ono safe course in The
matter, and that is to adopt measures for
raising up . choice dairy ofyoung cows