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form. Neither will the intelligent beef
breeder choose his animal from the dairy
form with cat head and relaxed expires.
sion. Physical structure and natural
adaptability embrace the possibilities,
and therefore increase the probabilities Of
success with the butter cow.
While it is not difficult for dairyman
with knowledge of his business to select
cow that make ten pounds Of butter q
week, provided always such a COW is
within the drove or herd he is inspect.
ing, COWS that will make fourteen pounds
of butter week are not to be found in
the droves that are driven about for sale.
Such COWS are seldom for sale except al
breeders prices. A novice might by
chance select cow that was making ten
pounds of butter week under the right
treatment, yet if he kept her in a cold
stable and gave her ice-water to drink
and fed her on timothy hay and ground
barley and corn meal, all of which are
lacking in protein, the cow would soon
run down to three and one-half pounds a
week and stay there, or make less and
less. Another man who knew his busi-
ness might have selected the same COW
and kept her in warm stable, given
warm water, warm ensilage made from
sweet corn well matured, two or three
pounds of clover hay and plentiful sup
ply of wheat bran or middlings, ground
oats and peas, OF little oil meal or any
other food containing protein in liberal
proportion, and the COW would probably
have increased to twelve pounds week
if her limit permitted.
Cows have their limit as sharply de-
fined as trotting horse. Pasture grass
is the only single feed known that con-
tains one part of protein or nitrogenous
food to five pounds of starch and sugar
Carbohydrates in its dry matter, and it
is therefore good food to test an ordi-
nary cows limit. But just rs good a ra-
tion as pasture grass can be made from,
the article just mentioned, and this ration
will be much cheaper than pasture grass
on high-priced land.
Dairy knowledge that enables man
to make selections of good COWS from
among poor ones, and shows him how to
feed and treat them so that they will do
their best, is not commodity that can be
ratified off to a novice like Widow Be.
dots recipe for making potato pudding,
but is the slow outcome of natural obser.
vation, experience and capacity. Such
a man may be accurate in his Judgment,
and still be unable to make another man
accurate. A butcher Gun judge the
weight of dozen OF twenty bullocks
within the fraction of q pound, but he
cannot INSTRUCT novice to do likewise,
any more THAI the poet Whittier can tell
Tupper how to write good poetry.
The theory that the young calf reveals
the future cow is based on the form and
on the heredity of the calf's ancestors. II
the calf has the beefy form, ana her an
cestors were noted fol their beef quail
ties, it is safe to say that such calf will
not make a profitable butter cow. But
if the three days calf has the marked
dairy form and is descended from long
line of butter COWS and sires, she can be
developed into a good butter COW. The
theory is based on the fundamental prin-
ciplc of all scientific but practical breed
ing that like begets like-American Agri-
culturist,