Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-09-20

form. Neither will the intelligent beef
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 n flairvman
with knowledge of his business to select
cow that make ten pounds of butter a
week, provided always such 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 drovcs that are driven about for sale.
Such cows are seldom for sale except at
breeders prices. A novice might nv
chance select q COW that was making ten
pounds of butter week under the RIGHT
treatment, yet if he kept her in cold
stable and gave her ice-water to drink
and fed her on timothy hay and ground
barley and corn meal, all of which arc
lacking in protein, the COW would soon
run down to three and onc-half pounds
week and stay there, or make less and
less. Another man who knew his bust
ness might have selected the same COW
and kept her i'll n warm stable, given
warm water, warm cnsilage made from
sweet corn well maturcd. two or three
pounds of clover hay and plentiful sup
ply OF wheat bran or middlings, ground
oats and peas, or little oil meal or any
other food containing protein in liberal
proportion, and the COW would probably
have increased to twelve pounds Il week
if her limit permitted
Cows have their limit rs sharply de-
lined rs trottinG horse Pasture grass
is the only single feed known that con-
tains one part of protein or heterogeneous
food to live pounds of starch and SUGAR
(carbhydratcs) in its dry matter, and it
is therefore good food to test an ordi-
nary cows limit. But just us good IA
ton as pasture grass can be made from
The article just mentioned, and this ration
will be much cheaper than pasture grass
OH high-priccd 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 Il commodity that can be
ratified oil to novice like Widow Be-
iSNicS ioi hi'iNlnS pOldtO putting,
but is the slow outcome of natural obscr-
walton, experience and capacity. Such
& man may be accurate in his Judgment,
and still be unable to make another man
accurate. A butcher can Judge the
weight of a dozen or twenty bulloclis
within the fraction Of pound, but he
cannot instruct novice to do likewise,
any more than the poet Whittier can tell
Topper how to write good poetry
The theory that the young calf reveals
tho future COW is based on the form and
on the hcrcdity of the Calls ancestors. If
the calf has the bcefy form, and her an
cestors were noted foi their beef quail
ties, it is safe to say that such a calf will
not make profitable butter COW. But
II 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 good butter cow. The
theory is based on the fundamental prin-
ciplc of all scientific but practical breed
ing that like begcts like-4aericcn Agri-