Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-01-23
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
IMPROVING THE DAIRY BY a
SIMPLE MEANS.
Feeding Cnlyes-Navy Beans a Neglected
bat Profitable Crop-ProiuctIye
hoA-FArm Notes and Do
mest.e Helps
Cows.

Cows.
IL Is not my purpose at this time 10
write an article on the ideal dairy
COW. But We are going TO see how
we can improve our dairy with the
material at hand. We should know
very nearly what each individual COW
can do for Us. and any COW that will
not make US 10 lbs. OF butter week.
six months OF the year and still pay
her keep three months longer. should
DO Observation-Disclosures sent TO the sham
bles or sold on her merits
We should breed our best cows TO
an animal coming from a butter
family. When butter is our object it
Is utter folly to breed TO a Shorthorn,
or any of the beef breeds Just as
much as 70 use a Clydesdale or Per-
ckeron. when you want an animal for
speed. or the road Keep the heiier
calves from these COWS. and in turn
breed them &c the same kind OF an
animal By this means your herd
will gradually improve and while you
are waiting for tins Improvement / do
not think you will loose anything bg
purchasing one or two good, well bred
COWS.
As to which breed is preferable. /
do not consider myself an impartial
Judge. as we have never tried any OF
the butter breeds but the Jerseys, and
Of course we are awiully in love with
them. Mr. Ialcott seems 10 prefer
the Guernseys. and the little Attorney
also has its friends; so each one must
make choice for himself But at any
rate let US do away with those cows
that only make four or five pounds
Of butter a week. Il is jus; US much
trouble to care for a poor COW as good
one and. the COW that makes the least
butter is not always the one that eats
the least.
Right well do ] remember the cows
we began making butter With Beau
ties they were, Of their kind, and thor
oughbreds 10 the bargain cit is need
less TO say they did not belong TO n
butter breed. Great ioamiug buckets
Of milk they gave. fully twice the
| quantity we get from any COW we have
nov. But alas, only about one-third
the amount OF butter ma,erialized.
when We came TO the churn. that we
get from the cows we have now
Right here we want 20 say word
/ about feeding those choice calves that
are TO build up our herd. We think
il hes; for the COW. aud decidedly
best for the calf TO let the latter re-
main with the COW AT least three days.
! do not wish you 10 understand me TO
advocate letting the calf have all the
milk for this length Of time. Take all
| you can get twice a DAY; the calf will
be sure 20 get enough. When you
take the calf away. the better way is
/ 10 have them in tho stable and quietly
drive the COW out; letting the calf re-
main so she does rot see you take il
from her. Keep il where she can
neither see nor hear il II possible.
| Leave IL alone for twelve hours Offer
il some milk warm from the
COW II will generally suck
the finger and about the
next feed il should drink alone. You
should not feed it fresh milk right
along. Give one-half skinned sweet
mix untll Two weeks ola. When IL WAL
make better aEimal for the purpose
yen are raising it II fed sweet
skinned milk. with tile addition OF a
very little oil meal or wheat bran.
better in fact, than II fed on whole
milk. This manner OF feeding will
give a growthy calf OF large eating ca.
pacity, which is very desirable in Z
COW. We all know that the more {
COW cats tho more butter she vii
make, She needs certain amount
to supply her body, and all over and
above that she puts into the bucket
Feed a calf on fresh milk and very ricl
feed and il will get in TO the habit q
laying on flesh and il VIII be hard Il
&c, rid OF this characteristic in tn,
COW. 1t is a safe rule TO discard an,
COW that gets fat while in 'ull flow q
milk You may be certain that he
milk is deficient in butter fats M. j
X. in the Ohio Farmer