Hillsboro recorder., 1888-07-05

must be watered, otherwise It will take
too much time for the bones to rot. II
properly attended to it will be ready to
use IN three months. Every ton of bone
used will make two tons Of offertilizer that
will analyze as high as any $50 bonedust
Sou can buy on the market. :
Dairy Cows and Their Feed.
Ibelieye, says w. A. Brown in the
New York Tribune, there are many dis.
coursged farmers, who for years have
been Vainly trying to get out of debt,
who would find in a well managed dairy
their best opportunity. II the cream
can be sold to factory and the milk
kept at home the wife will he relieved of
the labor of making the butter, but
with suitable apparatus and good help
farm dairy Of from ten to thirty cows
can be managed very comfortably, and
rather than sell the milk / would advise
that the butter be made at home, for
with the milk the heifer calves can be
raised to keep up the herd, and when
fed to pigs in correction with other
foeds pound Of pork can be made for
each ten to fifteen pounds of milk, and
this viii pay for quite o percentage of
the food Of the COWS. After many
years Of experience recommend grade
Jerseys for the butter dairy. The best
way to start-particularIy if short of
money-is to get "a few good native cows
and choice Jersey bull and begin grad
ing up. As a rule, most JERSEY cows
have rather small teats, so it is well TO
select large-teated COWS for the founda-
tion OF your herd. Fortunately jersey
bulls can be bought cheap, for the sup
ply Is in excess Of the demand.
believe it TO be true also that grades
from three-quarteEs to seyen-eichts
Jersey blood are as valuable for the
dairy as higher grades or thoroughbreds,
and dairyman can, in Q few years,
raise herd Of grades that will produce
nifty per cent. more Of butter and Of
better quality. There is a strong pref
udice among farmers against this breed
because Of their small size, but long ex-
perience with both large and small cows
led me TO the conclusion that they eat in
proportion to their weight, and that the
food Of support necessary for two cows
OF 1900 pounds each Is ample for three
OF 500 pounds each. and on much less
amount Of food, with me, the small cows
will average more butter than the large
one. Two winters ago | fed in the same
stable large and small COWS; last winter
had all small Jerseys, and the differ.
ence in the quantity Of food eaten was
quite noticeable. The idea that you
must get q herd Of cows that will be
profitable for beef when you are done
milking them Is erroneous, for often the
extra food they will eat during the yean
Of milking will cost twice what the
carcass will bring. The most salts.
factory food have ever used for dairy
cows, taking cost and effect into &C.
count, is cob-meal and bran, mixed
equal bulks, the corn and cob ground
20 fine that IL would take close looking
10 detect tho cob.
In connection with this I have fed
what bright clover hay and corn fodder
tho cows would eat clean. ON ten
pounds Of this mixed bran and meal 10
a COW, costing this year, when prices
are high, eight cents per day per head,
my cows have maintained a full flow Of
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were in the fall. Usually / can buy IN
The fall bran at ti2 per ton and corn al
thirty.fye cents per bushel, which would
bring the cost Of this ration to a little
less than six cents day per COW, In
eluding grinding Of the corn, for which
We pay SIX cents bushel Of seventy
pounds. As have not fixed an appara.
tus for warming the water I have given
my cows freshly pumped water, but I am
convinced Of the economy and profit Of
raising the temperature Of the water 10 q
point at which II will not chill them. II
also pays 70 provide extra food for the
summer In May and June a COW on
good. succuIent pasture will need moth.
ing 10 addition, but the dairyman 4
never safe who tries TO 90 through the
summer without plot Of sweet corn 70
feed In case Of drouth, and for two or
three months in the fall probably pump.
kins are one Of the cheapest and best
supplementary foods. The intelligent,
progressive daiTyman Is never caught
mapping, he does not try 10 see on how
small ration his cows can be carried
through the year, but rather how large
an amount Of food he can get them to
eat. One important aid 10 appetite and
digestion is regular supply Of salt.
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