The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-01-21

that greater than any one, perhaps Than
any ten, Of these items, is the radical, in.
herent difference between the milking
qualities OF the cows that compose the two
dairles. The one, with good care and fairly
generous feed, is capable Of producing an
average yearly yield of from seven to
eight thousand pounds OF milk to the cow
while the other, with the same care and
feed, would not produce an average yearly
yield of over four thousand pounds ol
milk to the COW,
A sensible lveryman does not fill his
stalls with oxen; farmer desiring to pur.
chase a herd of beef cattle does not buy
Jerseys. Why, then, should a dairymau
seeking to make profit by the production
of milk, fiji his harms with cattle that are
selected haphazzard, some of them repre-
senting native cattle that have been bred
for no purpose, some OF them the magnlfi'
cent Durhams and HerefQrds that for cen.
turies have been bred for beef? Competi-
tion has placed the farmer, especially the
dairyman, where years ago 1t placed the
merchant Only the skillful, the industri-
GUS and the economical, with the employ
ment oi the latest meth DDS, can now sue
coed. Even if dairyman In every other
respect is doing his duty, If he is handi-
capped by herd of inferior mixers, he
must fail. There are thousands Of cows
In the United States that, with proper
treatment, will give twelve thousand
pounds Of milk IN year; and there are
thousands of others that, with the same
care and feed, would not give over -four
thousand pounds in year. = COW prop.
erly handled should give milk at leas'
during eight seasons, so that difference
in her favor Of even three thousand pounds
of milk per year would amount, during
her lie, 10 twenty-four thousand pounds
or two hundred dollars worth
of milk. This statement does not
show, adequately, the superiority Of the
one COW over the other, because the female
progeny OF the deep milking COW, if prop
erly raised, will prove Of incalculatle
value.
1t is not necessary, however, in address
ing such an intelligent audience as this TO
consume further time in proving the pal
amount importance to every dairyman OF
procuring for his farm herd Of cows that
are naturally great milk producers. The
necessity being recognized, how shall he
accomplish this purpose' Shall he ride
the country over with steelyards and a
milk-pail in his hand, hunting for good
mixers, without regard to breeding or
pedigree? Such a plan as this would, in
my judgment, be thousand times more
feasible and intelligent than the easy. going
and easily satisfied method usually adopt
ed. Indeed, about fourteen years ago |
collected Il small herd of grade cows upon
this plan, paying for many oil them twice,
and for some Of them three times, the
price asked for average milch cows. But
this took TO much time, and such
a method could no longer, at least in the
community In which l llve,be successfully
pracliced. Our dairymen have come TO
appreciate at somewhere near their true
worth, the COWS that are naturally deep
mixers, and lheynow look upon phenom-
enal mixers as haying value that can
hardly be overestimated.
C,.n we not learn q valuable lesson from
the successful breeders of fast horses? The
underlying principles OF scientific and sue
cessful breeding OF horses are the same as
are those Of every other kind of domestic
animal. II you wished TO breed a valua.
BILE trotting mare TO trOlting stallion, you
would seek one that had shown great
speed and endurance on the race course,
but you would want one, also, whose peGi-
gree was rich 10 the blood of dams and
sires distinguished for their irotting vicio-
ries. In short, you would look for sire
that combined individual excellence with
royal pedigree How exceedingly you
would rejoice II you could secure the ser.
vice of stallion whose blood could be
traced, through an enbroken line Of thor
oughbred American horses, to thorough
bred English ancestry, theEce back,
through two centuries of breeding, TO the
famous Arabian stations, TO whose service
10 the stud Great Britain is mainly indebi-
ed for her horses Of unsurpassed beauty,
speed, and endurance. Should not dairy
men, then, seek diligently for a COW, not
only Of individual merit, but for one that
IS the result Of intelligent, long continued
ard successful breeding, pursued with the
sole object of producing model milch
COW, for general dairy purposesS / also
take II for granted that the wise farmer,
after he has secured his model herd, will
thereafter supply bis wants with cows OF
his own raising, and never again by pur.
chase. Owing to the latter fact, and mlnd-
ful OF the well-establlshed laws OF hered.
ity, he will seek race Of cattle that, for
centuries, have been bred with the special
view of developing and establishing great
milking qualities; he will insist that II
must be breed that has reached, meas.
ured by the milk.pall test, very high
average performance. He will finally give
his preference to the breed that offers the
greatest inducements, judged with regard
to the following points:
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