Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-05-24
CHAPTER OF DON'TS.
Matter Worthy the Careful Perusal of
the Thoughtful Dairyman.

Matter worthy the Careful Perusal of
the Thoughtful Dairyman.
Don't think because the price of but
ter or milk may have dropped off that it
will pay you to reduce the amount of
grain fed your cows.
Don't expect COW to furnish you 80
cents worth of milk on 10 cents worth
of feed.
Don't expect COW to pay you back a
profit on her feed until she has first
taken care OF her own physical structure.
Don't forget that every COW carries her
own timepiece and knows precisely when
the hour for feeding and watering comes.
Don't try to make yourself believe you
can put her off and feed or water her
whenever it suits your convenience with
out yourself being the loser.
Don't think because the COW does not
speak the English language she does not
understand such terms as "get around
there, you old fool"
Don't fool yourself into the belief that
you can split your stool over her hip
bones and not lose at the same time both
in quantity and quality of milk.
Don't believe it if some one tells you
your COWS will do just as well with change
of mixers every day.
Don't forget that the COW is creature
of habit and will do better if always kept
in the same stall.
Don't fail to keep record OF the time
your cows are due to calve, as otherwise
some of them will be MIXED too long.
Don't think because COW is persist
ent mixer she does not need season of
rest.
Don't believe it when some one tells
you her young calf will be just as strong
and vigorous and she will continue to
give as much or as good milk when
MIXED up to the time she comes in.
Don't think because she is dry the COW
is well cared for with only ration of
straw or poor hay.
Don't think good ventilation means
crack between each board an inch wide
or doors made Of fence rails.
Don't allow yourself to believe it will
pay you to raise calves from cows you
have proven improbable simply because
those from your best cows died.
Don't always expect calf from good
COW will prove better than its mother,
even if you do use the best sire obtain
able, for occasionally you will be disap-
pointed.
Don't think because this is sometimes
true you can afford to use scrub bulls.
Don't be satisfied without striving
after the best-in everything.
Don't say that reports of 800 to 400
pounds Of butter per COW all came from
"dudes and liars" because your cows
have never made over l75 pounds each.
Don't take quite as much stock in re-
ports OF individual cows making thirty
to forty pounds of butter per week as
you did before the Worlds Fair test.
Don't fail to remember that the COW
that makes fourteen pounds OF butter for
forty to forty-fve weeks is a remarkably
good cow.
Don't forget that unless you have tried
them you may have one or two such cows
in your own herd, and don't forget it that
one such cow is worth more to you than
six that will not produce more than l5O
pounds each during the season.
Don't expect the good wife to make a
tirst-class article OF butter from tainted
milk.
Don'texpect anything but tainted milk
II cows are kept in foul stables with teats
and udders besmeared with filth.