Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-09-20
na,rx ramn.rnment Of cow.
The Rural Canadian.

!, The Rural Canadian.
Governor Hoard, ct the Ontario
Creameries Association meeting said
The Moses that is to lead us out OF the
wilderness is knowledge of the truth.
"By the sweat Of thy brow thou shalt
earn thy bread" That Is true. BY the
sweat of thy brow; and not by the
sweat of thy hand. Dairying requires
Intelligence Of the highest order. The
darkest place on earth is tho inside
of cow. We therefore need constant
Ienergetic knowledge Of her. Don't
Law this whole thing to the west; the
west 10 in the same boat with you. We
are thinking as you are OF the prob.
lem of profit or loss in making butter
or cheese. have been thinking OF
this subject for years. My son ana
myself have two creameries. We have
one man who sells US cream, who
makes $S5 q head on his herd; but
MANY only make $40 head. l think
the difference solely rested OH the fact
that Fergeson used his brain, and
others did not. The farmer should
see that he Is a manufactures; maker
of food. We are confronted with the
fact that we are land poor and COW
poor. We must, no longer keep two
cows to do the work Of one; TWO acres
to do the work OF one. We cannot
control the price, but we can the cost
of butter. We have been depriving
land of its value. If your land is
becoming poorer and poorer Il is nat
ural that you should make less and
less. When began the agitation in
Jefferson county, Wisconsin, In favor
of dairy farming, we Were just then
recovering from the debauch OF UNI
limited wheat raising. The soil was
so depleted that we could only raise
eight bushel OF wheat to the acre. l
began an agitation In little country
newspaper and in little meetings here
and there. It has taken us years, but
we are now on an uphill road. We
only bad 10000 cows in the county
when we began; now we have $4,000
COWS and we are raising eighteen bush,
els of wheat to the acre. Our local
banks show also in their large deposits.
II is not the west that is ilnpOverish-
ing you dairymen in the east, II is
yourselves. You do not perceive the
necessity of adopting modern dairy
methods. Yon do not find men who
have used their brains complaining
of the poor price of butter.
When went out to buy COWS !
studied the temperament of the ami
mails surveyed. I selected those which
had the dairy temperament, and avoid
ed those who were inclined to take to
bone and flesh. The dairy cow re-
uuires an absolute iashioner Of good
and evil. How to breed u dairy ma
chine, how 10 feed her-these are
problems. Here among these cows
you sec a Hereford, COW with a
lymphatic temperament, q maker OF
flesh. There You have Holstein; a
natural dairy COW. 1t is q question
of heredily. Yon could not persuade
a horsenIam 10 put u strain Of dray
horse blood into the blood of his rae
ing horse, but the farmer tries to
make butter IN many cases, out Of
beef cow. If we could inject into the
minds of the owners Of cows through
out the country that they must have
butter cows TO make butter, the dis
enlargement of our dairymen would
come to all end. II is the motherhood
of COWS that makes them milk produ-
GERS. And it Is constant wonder to
ME that men maltreat these matters,
and then pray 10 God for intelligence
to make money. Thousands Of these
mothers are killed by i'll treatment.
II YOU abuse COWS he sure you will
suffer for it by loss Of milk. We
keep a thermometer in our creamery,
and it is interesting 10 observe how
the butter fat vanishes when there is
cold storm. The COW you buy
should have broad nostrils. She must
breathe In an enormous quantity of
fresh air for the RratiOn of her blood.
Then, the COW should have strong
and upward. flowing spinal cord. She
should have u sharp shoulder; that
win show that she has no beef ten
dency. She should have large diges-
tive machine. You. hear men say:
81 want a hardy cow" and he drives
her half mile TO water, and gives her
ice-water at that. The women Of this
land, the mothers, know more about
cows than the men. 1t is the women
who understand the motherhood of
COWS. 1t is the women of Guernsey.
of Jersey, who care for The cows and
have made them what they are in
those lands. Just so much as YOU en-