Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-10-06
The MAN AND rHe cow.


AoW the Cow Rewards the Man Who
Treats Her Well
Take the county Of Sheboygan, Wis
consin, composed Of fifteen townships
six miles square. That county turns out
annually over a million Of dollars, and
the banks Of that county reported to me
last fall that there was on deposit in
their vaults by the dairymen alone of
that county million and half of dol
lars. Where did it come from? From
the steady, constant earnings Of this
humble animal III my own county
(Jefferson) the cows earn annually 4
million and quarter of dollars, and the
effect Of this has been to raise the value
Of land higher than ever before. III has
doubled in the dairy counties, while i'll
those that cling to wheat there is no ad-
vance, though the land was originally
better
have been student of dairying ana
a keen observer Of its influence on the
community where it is practiced. 1
have ever seen am increase in the en-
ergy, an increase in the ability. and in-
crease in the solidity Of q community
that entered into partnership with the
COW. Yet / find that few men who are
engaged in dairying, al a rule, are a de-
cided success in it. The great majority
OF men who keep cows are going along
without any intellectual exertion. You
will find these men are not making III
pay as it oughtto. Myself and son are
engaged III the business Of manufactur
ing cheese and butter. We make about
1000 pounds Of butter day, and about
the same number Of pounds Of cheese.
Now, in my own home creamery We
have about 100 patrons, and this will
give you, as though were to map it out
on the wall, a clear, competent idea of
success. We take this milk, about 16.-
600 or II 600 pounds Of it, every morning
in that creamery, and every mans milk
i tested. and the per cent. Of butter Eat
it contains il determined, and he IL cred
tied with that amount. At the head Of
that list Is man of the name Of Nc
Pherson. Last year we paid that man
in cash sixty-three dollars head as tile
earnings Of his COWS, and we returned
him his skimmilk, which we would have
paid him twelve dollars head more for
as an investment of our own. That
made his cows earn him seventv-fve
dollars head in cash.
Now, says one man, that was success.
Certainly Right alongside of him II
another man who has had the same op-
portunities, with the same sky above
him, the same earth beneath him. the
same creamery behind him and the same
market ahead of him, and we paid that
man forty dollars COW. The first man
had thirty-fve cows; the last had twenty.
Where lay the difference Of success?
Was it in the heavens above or i'll the
earth beneaths It lay in the brain. not
the hands. This man Mcpherson started
out with the idea that it takes a deal Of
study to make a success of the COW.
Thirteen years ago his cows were high
grade Shorthorns, interlined and crossed
with beef blood
He came and asked my advice. said
you want butter Very wen, let ~ start
thsa MfithD hDdhsP9 dhPtt6sSo t6soJAal JAalePa e.Pr yatr Rya ra as
can get, put him at the head of your
herd, and from these mothers take his
daughters, and then again, and by intel
ligent handling and breeding, produce
the herd you want, and you can come to
me III five or six years and say the
change has made a success. He did so
Now. from herd which produced him
$50 pounds of butter head, his cows to-
day produce him $50 pounds Of butter a
year That is the first thing I want
every man to see; he must have a dairy
cow Lots of men think it is all feed.
1t is feed, too; but first it is breed, then
it i feed. - Extract from Governor
Hoard's Address.