Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-25

Homestead suggests that the best
means for insuring a good color for
butter Is to feed each cow a pailful OF
corn meal musl, warm, each day. the
corn to be of the yellow variety. He
says the increase in the quantity of
milk and butter viii pay the cost of
/ the meal, and the rich colorwill be Sc
cured without expense.
/ No doubt the quantity of butter will
! be there, but the. color viii not. Ii is
not generally known that white corn
is often richer in fat than yellow. and
it may soon be known that yellow
corn will not make nearly so yellow
butter as green grass viii, if one will
only try it.
AT every fair and exhibit of cat
tie, there has been a conspicuous alb
sence of Ayrshires this year. Why is
lt9 There was once a model house
keeper who, who when demonstrated
with for her close domestic application,
and for never being seen abroad re
marked, 81 have more valuable use
for my time, | am doing useful work
in my household" Perhaps the Ayr
shlres are doing more useful word at
home than gadding abroad to shows
and fairs; and there are few dairymen
who can be induced, even for the
chance of liberal premium, to move
the cream Of his herd from home to
distant fair and disturb them for
several days. The Ayrshires are the
working herds of the country, and it
must not be supposed because few are
seen at the shows that they are neglect
ed at home. The same is true in pre-
cisely the same way of the native cat
tie, which are quietly doing the great
est work.-The Dairy.
Improvements in dairy herds
must begin and end from within. No
dairyman or farmer can afford to keep
pure bred cattle for his business. But
he can grade up his native cows at
very little cost. In this regard the New
England Farmer says:
Our farmers ought TO take more
interest than they generally do in
breeding animals; they should learn
the requisites to success in this most
interesting of all farm occupations, so
that they may be able to safely invest
in whatever grade of animals may be
needed to improve or perfect the stock
they already have. The native ami
mails now being bred so largely in this
country are going to be the founda
ton stock for the herds of the future
1t is of no use to look for an entire
change TO the new breeds. Such
change is practically among the inn
possibilities. There are very few herds
of cows i'm the country that are so
nearly perfect that it would not be de
sirable to improve them. Most herds
might be improved by the use of bet
ter males, and the improved breeds
are now so widely disseminated
through the country that it does not
require a very heavy outlay nor any
excessive risk to procure a better bull
than the average native stock COM
monty produces. A good bull calf o
week or two old, from almost any of
the choice popular breeds, can be pur-
chased for an average price not eX-
ceeding twenty-five dollars. A great
many bull calves from very excellent
pure bred cows are given away every
year or sold to the butchers for veal,
Better ones in some hands might be
cheaper at fifty dollars, but even these
cheaper ones, which are sold or given
away because their owners have no
use for them, would improve many of
our common herds while the risk
would be no greater than from theus
of the most common or ordinary
stock y