Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-09-18
FACTS FOR DAlRYMEN.
Some Valuable Suggestions Concernil
Gown and Their Products.


Gown and Their Products.
Successful success in dairying means
that the dairyman should be skilled and
In love with his business, with dairy COW
fitted for the special work that is i'm
posed upon her; barns, stables, all the
appointments for use to the best advan-
tage. all that the industry required
abundant, and suitable foods for this
COW united for and obtainable at every
season Of the year. He should also
have definite knowledge of the needs
Of the market he patronizes, a business
Judgment and tact to take advantage of
the situations and to profit by them,
and there should be . combined effort
on the part Of each and every dairyman
to promote dairy knowledge, making
dairy instruction free, available and OBJ
tainable to all Besides this there
should be general feeling of never
let-go, all-push-together, to drive out
and crush out all bogus and spurious
limitations of dairy products. All must
also watch for and meet on equal
grounds this close competition that has
found out the dairyman as well as the
manufacturer. Experiment stations may
point out remedies but it is for individ-
ual dairymen to put them to the test
and practice. The breed of cow the
dairyman will keep he must decide for
himself, but all are now agreed that she
must be of the dairy type. Gov. Hoard's
COW has come to be accepted by the
world, and this type, whether Jersey.
Holstein, Guernsey or scrub, is every
where recognizable. By general con-
sent dairymen have let go the combina-
ton COW. have heard more about the
special dairy COW in the past year than
in the ten preceding. The beefy, blocky
COW Of elephantine proportions is
doomed for the dairy. The profits of
carrying five hundred pounds of extra
beef ON q COW for six or eight years to
sell at last for . cent per pound has lost
its charm. The dairyman is finding out
that the ration that make one pound Of
beefy steer can readily be changed to
make one pound of butter or two pounds
Of full creamed cheese. admit that
have seen milk in copious measure
drawn from the beef form, but the beef
influence gains the mastery and the COW
goes dry seven months in the year.
Let the feed be what it may, however,
that alone can not control the quality
of the milk. The COW has an individu-
atty of her own, born milking habit
and the greater number Of grandams
possessing the milking traits the greater
probability there is that this COW will
possess like qualities No man ever
stimulated q COW into good productive
ness unless she had this born quality of
development to start with, and thou
sands of heifers that were born to make
the best of cows have been ruined BY
bad care, cruel treatment and needless
exposure. Every dairyman should raise
his own COWS as far as he can, and buy,
If he must, wisely. For this reason he
must be judge of cows. a reader of
cows and in fact COW phrenologist-
Better care, feeding and handling of
COWS would carry with it greater sue
cess to the average dairyman. This
idea of making a COW hardy should
be eliminated from dairy wisdom. At
best our cows are boarders and
the larger part of the year they
nav the better Winter dairying is
showing what the profitable care of cows
meana Some men neglect their cows
through thoughtlessnesa One must
remember. however. that whatever will |
administer to the comfort of the mother |
COW, quiet care, warmth, comfort, sue
sulent, stimulating food, pure air. clean
water and regularity Of attendance,
will help in q large measure toward
success, for ON this hangs the law and |
the profits, 80 far rs the dairy COW IL |
concerned. have found that success |
in winter dairying invariably depends
upon regularity in every particular.
Again, to succeed dairymen must stop
trying to ft excellence and quality into
Q cows milk above her normal limit
The dictum must be accepted that the
quality of q cows milk is born with
her, and no feed will make a Holstein
give milk as rich rs that Of Jersey.
We may feed as we please, but beyond
the limit we can not force the cow, to
follow. - John Gould, in Farm and