The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-31

bic meal, and a given quantity Of such
meal IS worth more than any other !:
though barley meal made ia ''pearling.r
aud meal from Masking split pes>, and
snort and shipstuffs, are all held as of
great vslve to help sustain the yield OF
milk during the winter.
brewers grains, though the chespest
81 any food, as sold in the market. are
I not approved, and il fed at al, must Ia
IN small quantities, mixed Mi,h othc
! Iced, or the milk will be of Inferior
/ quality; and the directors of the asso-
citation discourage this kind of food for
the production of the best milk.
All the members of the association
are said TO use sowed corn, to be fed
when the pastures are poor in the
droughtS of summer.
The arc two members who cook the
winters food for their cows; one has
so to 20 animals to feed, the other has
so. Cooking is not thought to be profit
| able when less than 40 COWS are to be
! fed.
Some members of the association feed
higher than others, and it is fully
agreed among them that high feeding
and consequent great yield of milk
wears out the COWS, and renders them
no logger profitable after from four to
SIX years use. One owner of large
herd long ago adopted the plan of rails
Ing his own COWS, and he finds that
when helfer has her first calf at about
so months old, she will last, on an
average, about SIX years. He does not
attempt to produces an extraordinary
large average yield of milk, as be has
many young cows in milk.
Ii is very difficult TO purchase first
rate cows, andsthe greatest skill in
breeding from the best of stock on both
sides does not always produce good
mixers. The larger the herd, the
more difficult 1t becomes TO have every
cow of the best quality, and one DAIRY
man reported that be produced an
average of 1889 quarts from his herd
Of forty, while another averaged 3766
from his small herd of ten. Ia each
case the management was most excel
lent, and few men have both the
skill and industry To successfully com
pete with either. The next best Weld
from any herd fell below the hIgh
of these two 1049 quarts, and below
the second 622 quarts.
The members of tins association
have some important advantages In
learning all about the cost and best
methods of producing milk, in the
fact that each one has knowledge, il
he desires, of the methods adopted by
the most successful. The ipquiring
man may here learn the great import
ance of skill and care, and we may all
learn of this association the vast i'm
! portance of correct methods of dsing
business, and by no means the least i'm.
portrait point Of management is that all
milk is sold for cash, and no credit
| given; and in this is the greatest saw.
| ing of all-full trial having shown
that milk sold for pay on delivery
brings to the pocket of its producer,
when sold at six cents per quart as
much as the credit system formerly
/ practiced gave when eight cents was
charged that is to say, he who paid
for his milk paid SO l 3 per cent. more
than it was worth, to meet the losses
from persons VINO never paid.
| II this is a fair measure of the cost
of the credit system to whoever buys,
not to sell again, but to coDsume-if
anything near this percentage is paid,
by those that do pay, for those that do
rot pay; TO the butcher, the grocer,
the tailor, and all other retailers OF the
things that we must consume to live,
then do the taxes Of the nation, the
State, the city, the county and the
town, sink into insignifca1ce COM
pared to this, making the provident
and industrious support those who
buy, but do not ply. And hardest of
all Is the tax of the !, Ill credit sys
TEN upon the honest and industrious
ponr, who do pay their debts.