The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-07-07
SUCCESS in DAIRYING.

Dairying, like other branches of farm
ing, depends for success on intelligent
management. We no longer think that
a man gets good crop because he has a
good luck, but because he cultivates his
land well, and the season is favorable.
Success in dairying depends not on oc-
cult and miraculous influences, but upon
good cattle, good feed and good facilities
for manufacturing the milk into butter
and cheese.
Looked at from the dairymen's stand.
point COW is simply a machine for
turning fodder into milk. She is the
best COW who will consume the largest
amount of feed and return for the feed
the largest amount of rich milk. A good
many of us have not been sufficiently
thoughtful about securing the cows that
would give us the most profitable re-
turns. Col. Littler is of the opinion that
a large part of the common dairy COWS
do not yield over 1900 pounds of milk a
year. We heard from Capt. Hall that
this factory paid, on the average, S8
cents hundred for milk during the
past year. The income from COW that
gives only 1000 pounds of milk year
would then be $1760 From a
COW giving 5000 pounds a
year the income would BE-
$26. 40. Col. Littler says that COW
yielding less than 5000 pounds year is
kept at loss. 1t is not difficult to breed
COWS that will yield from 5000 to 5000
pounds year. Such COWS would use
no more feed in supporting their own
bodies than those COWS use that give
only 1900 pounds year. Whatever
extra food they eat is turned into milk,
and we can we'll afford to iced them all
the food which they have the ability to
change into milk Our friend, Cary r.
Smith, OF Iowa City, told us of his won
derful Holstein COW, Mink, that gives
$4,000 pounds of milk year. At the
rate paid at this factory for milk for the
past year the income from Mink would
be $140.80. These figures show that it
is possible, by careful attention to breed
ing the best dairy cows, to reap much
larger returns from COWS than most are
now getting. We need not look only to
the Holsteins for good mixers. The
Jerseys are famous the world over for
their good qualities. Some families of
Short Horns have no superiors. In this
neighborhood there are Devons which
have been carefully bred foI years, and
which are highly esteemed for milking
qualities.
Many farmers say that they believe in
good COWS for the dairy, and thai they
mean to get such by careful breeding
and selection from their present herds Of
native COWS. Against careful breeding
and selection have nothing to say. 1t
should always be followed. But it is of
great importance to have the best stock
with which to begin this process.
COW is machine for changing feed into
milk. Now when farmer wants good
machine for moving he does not wait
until he invents and makes one for him
SELF He goes into the market and buys
the best machine which the highest in
ventive genius and the best mechanical
skill have been able to invent and man.
ufacture. By SO dong he gets the help
of the best work which the age has been
able to produce. Now the dairyman
should pursue the same method. He
should procure the best dairy COWS that
have been produced by the most skillful
care of the ablest breeders who have
been at work for hundreds of years.
Thisgives him at once the great advanA
tage of all the good qualities in cows that
have already been attained. Then by
his own careful breeding and selection
he will be able to attain results that will
be most profitable and satisfactory
IOaUa HO717estend