The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-01-01
Dairy Cows.

Many farmers tell you, when ask
ed how may COWS they milk, with
pride as the number, twenty, thirty,
fifty, as the case may be. Another
farmer may say twelve, and still he
may carry just as much milk to his
cooling vat as another man who
nlilks twenty four COWS. "Oh p
the skeptical man says, ''that amt
SO, l don't believe it." but whether
it is believed or not, it is a fact.
Go into the stable while the TWEEN
ty-four cow-man ia milking, and
see the amount of milk he gets
from each COW. II you are bold
enough to speak about the. small
amount got from each COW he will
have a sworld of excuses to offer.
This is heifer with her first calf.
This COW got her bag spoiled last
summer and only has three teats.
Well, you see, the grass is kinder
dry now and they amt doing IS
well as they were a while ago. Oh,
this COW had a calf in the winter
and is pretty near dry. Yes, this
one is father a poor mixer. | al
lowed to sell her last fall; but
couldn't get much for her and so
kept her. This one don't give
much? Yes, that's SO, but she is 2
dreadful hard mixer and the BOYS
kinder let her dry up" And so it
goes on to the end of the low, with
perhaps four or five good mixers in
the lot who require more than one
pail to hold their milking-and it
takes these five to pay for the
keeping of the poor ones. The
case with the twelve COW man is
different; he sets out twelve full
pals of milk as the product Of the
herd at one milking. "Why, how
do you manage to have ali such
good milkers2" Il don't keep a
poor one? "Yes, I can't depend
on buying them, but when i
know of good one 1 try to get a
hold of her. These two here are
out of that old COW over there, and
here are three of their daughters.
The old COW getting along in years.
Yes, that's so, twelve this spring
am going to let her go now, but
up to this season she has given hen
two pals and over day"
Every herd of milk COWS should
be carefully tested by their owner
and this test to be of any value
should be test of each indy idua
animal, and then work off the poor
ones at the first opportunity. By
this we do not mean sell to your
neighbers and recommend them al
frst-class animals, but every ami
NAL that falls below the average O.
the herd as mixers and as butter
makers should be got out of the
herd and replaced by a good one
! The most satisfactory way to get
good ones is to raise the heller
calves from the best milk and but
ter COWS in the herd. If your hero
mum bers thirty head of milk cows
raise seven select heifers every yea
to put into it; probably two vo
these have to be discarded wher
they come to pail. In five years
you will have raised the average 0
your herd four pounds of butte
per head per week, or 120 pounds
tor the herd per week; this at thir
ty cents per pound is $50 week
and no more trouble, work or feed
mind you. This for one year o
fifty-two weeks is $1,872. This is
pretty neat little income to max,
just for little care and head work
But even sey the four pounds pc
week is only gained for half tn
year or twenty six weeks, then tn
net gain is 1887 or nearly 81 ,0O'
clear profit.
Let every man who keeps COW
and milks them ask himself b.
question: How many pounds @
butter does "Mollie" 'Daisy." o
"Buttercup'' Gas the case may be
give me per week? If the answer i
81 don't know''-and you know al
well as we in how many Thousand
of cases that Is the only answe
that could be given-then the frs
hard work that is to be done is tx
find out. Seems to us that we hea
some say, "Oh! 1 amt no book far
mer; these tests may be all wei
enough for fellows who wear whit,
shirts and write for the papers, bu
l amt got time to fool around Will
the cows milk. 1 have got t.
hurry up my haying and get some
thing for the critters to eat mex
winter"
Now, hold on minute
Wouldn't you stop and think ovel
if somebody that you knew could
back it with greenbacks should
come along and say, "Look here
Mr.. Farmer, I want you to work
for me, and l will give you eighteen
hundred a year and board yourself
and family" That's more than
nine-tenths of the people make q
year in New York, Chica-
go, or Philadelphia, and most
of those that make more than that
lose every cent they have about ev-
cry fifteen or twenty years.
A dairy composed of all good
cows is a profitable investment.
The mild product must be carefully
taken care of and u ade the most of.
Owning the COWS is not the only
part; but if the milk is ever so well
taken care OF, if the COWS don't give
enough of it, and rich enough in
butter, a progt cannot be made
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