The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16

breeder choose his animal from the dairy
form with cat head and relaxed express
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 a dairyman
with knowledge of his business to select
a cow that make ten pounds of butter n
week, provided always such cow IL
,Sithin the drove or herd he Is inspect
ing, cows that will make fourteen pounds
Of butter week arc not to be found in
the droves that nrc driven about for sale.
Such cows are seldom for sale except ut
breeders prices. A novice might by
chanca -ssleot-. oow- tsr~s was making ten
pounds Of butter week under the right
treatment, yet if nc kept her in n 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 q
week and stay there, or make les and
less. Another man who knew his bust
ness might have selected the same COW
and kept her in n warm stable, given
warm water, warm ensilagc made from
sweet corn we'll maturcd, two or three
pounds of clover hay and plentiful sup
ply of wheat bran or middlings, ground
oats and peas, or a 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
(carbhydratcs) in its dry matter, and it
is therefore good food to test nn ordi-
nary cows limit. But just as good ra-
tion as pasture grass can DC mnde 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 II,
feed and treat them SO that they will do
their best, is not II commodity that can bc
ratified Off to II novice like Widow Be-
dott's recipe for making potato pudding,
DuI IL tuc SLOW putfoIlC Oh natural OI)ScT-
vation, experience and capacity. Such
q man may he accurate i'm his Judgment,
and still be unable to make another man
accurate. A butcher can Judge tho
weight of dozen or twenty bullocks
Within the fraction Of 4 pound, bat he
cannut instruct novice to- do likewise,
any more than the poet Whittier can tell
Tnpper how to write good poetry.
The theory that the young calf reveals
the future COW is based on the form and
on the hcrcdity Of the calf's ancestors. II
the calf has the bcefy form, and her an
ccstors were noted 70, their beef quail
ties, it is safe to say that such a calf will
not make profitable butter cow. but
if the three days calf has the marked
dairy form and is descended from long
line of butter cows and sircs, she can bc
developed into good butter COW. The
theory is bascd on the Fundamental prin-
ciplc of all scientific hut practical breed
ing that like bcgcts iilic-dmcrican Agri-
culturist.