Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-07-21
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The Selection of Dairy Cows.

WI. Camp in Southern World.
The most important part about dali
rying is the proper selection of cows.
Out of the whole number of mich
COWS in Georgia, nineteen-twentieths
are only fit for the butcher one in
every twenty for the milk pail. If
you are going to dairy for profit your
COWS should calve annually and give
milk ten or eleven months. In fact, a
first>class COW should give good flow
of milk at night and have new calf
next morning. How are we to know
this? IT'S a universal concession that
when q man has COW to sell that
what he says of her cannot be depend
ed upon. 1t is human nature to lie
about the COW you want to sell.
There is stamped upon every COW
the marks that can be read and inter
preted palmer than holy writ. What
she is no one need tell the experienced
dairyman. Two minutes of careful
study Of the signs tells him more truth
of the COW than the owner will in a
days conversation.
Monsieur Francois Guenon, of France
made this discovery over half a century
ago, and proved beyond doubt, that
he could tell Just what the COW would
give, how long she would give it, and
the quality of the milk. This escutch
con theory has been put into practice
by the best breeders and dairymen all
through the North and West.
If fourteen year old boy, who has
studied this escutcheon theory and put
it to the test, can select and tell what
a COW can do in quantity and quality
with more accuracy than a 30, 60 or
so year old grandaddy, who only looks
to see if the COW is large and fine look
ing and has big bag, ought to be
proof that there is something in in.
The COW that drops her calf and III
three to six weeks hunts up the bull
and in ninety days is dry or only Civ
ing a quart of milk, is worthless out
side of her beef value, and the sooner
the butcher has her the better. Oul
best native COWS Cor scrubs), wher
crossed with pure bred Jersey bulls
their heifer calves will make cow
worth three times as much as they are
but our bastard scrubs will produces
more worthless stock than they ar
themselves, for it is law of natur
that the inferior produce worse thai
themselves, while the best produce
better and better.
If you are going to buy COW it Wi
pay you to go to dealer or breede
who values his reputation more tina
he does his money, one who will tel
the truth and guarantee the COW as b
represents her. Failing to find such
dealer or breeder, why the next CHEAP
est way to buy good COW, just wha
you want, is to pay an expert to selet
and buy for you, one who will back h
Judgment so far that he will guarantt
COW to do so much upon a give
amount of feed, in quality and quaint
tv, or that he will take the COW @
your hands. In other words plainl,
an expert can tell more about the co
than the owner will-information thi
will be reliable,
There are professional mich co
dealers upon the streets of Allan
daily offering cows and calves for sal
Boosting of their qualities, when the
know they have filled the calf
drenching to safety, and they stand |
the mother listless, not offering to SUI
when the COW has not had a drop
milk drawn from her udder from sc
48 hours.
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