Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-10

so arranged that economy can be prac-
tised every way. H
To obtain successful results in the fu-
tire. we must lind olt whether we are be.
ing injured so much by competition as by
our own failure to push to its limit, the
productive quality of our dairieS. 1t is
the man who has a poor COW, poor pasture
feed, and well ventilated barnyard and
hay ration for winter that is meeting with
competition The man, who years ago
learned all about dairying, and discards
recent nvestgations is not safe adviser,
not in these times.
The successful dairyman must have con
fidence in himself and faith in his cows.
The man who invents ideas, copies and
uses borrowed IDEAS if good, as well. He
must have definite aims, and select one of
the three great dairy industries, and stay
by it,and thus gain reputation and money
too. Successful success implies continu-
Gus industry. 4
Whatever. COW you keep. she must be OF
the dairy type, as contrasted with the
beef form. The peculiar conformation OF
form to purpose is the cow that the dairy.
man wants He is fast finding out that
the ration that makes a pound of steer
beef, as readily makes pound of butter,
or two pounds of full stock cheese. he
cannot afford put the valuable ration
into unknown channels of production
such as the combined cow must have with
the double heredity back of her struggling
for the mastery of this ration. Feed
alone. cannot control the quality of the
milk. The COW has an individuality of her
own, n born milking habit. No man ever
stimulated a COW into good performance,
that did not have this born quality of de-
yelopment to start with. The dairyman
should raise his own cows as far as he can,
and buy wisely if he must.
Whatever will administer to the com
forts of the mother cow, quiet, care.
warmth comfort, s,cculent and stimulat
ing food, pure air, clean water, and regn-
larjty of attention will succeed. On this
hang the law and tic profits. The quail
itv of milk a cow Is to give is born in her,
and no feeding will make Holstein Of
old type, give Jersey milk, or starye a Jei :
sen into giving Holstein milk. We may
feed !, COW and increase her quantity of
milk. feed her up to the normal limit,
and here We stop. Beyond this the COW
cannot go, and beyond this, food is lost in
tn vain attempt 10 attain what nature
has prohibited.
Then comes the r,tions for our cows.
They are abundant, cheap and of great
variety. The diet of dry hay and corn in
the ear will not do in the future. The
food Of support and the food of production
must be studied and saved. What shall
we feed, how much, how often, and
when. and where, are all connected with
this subject
am stronger in the belief than ever,
that silagc made of green corn and clover
is to he the great rbughagc ration of the
future: but the cow wants something else
to .yo with this rough fodder, so I raise
oats. and buy shorts to fed with it. Nine
acres. last winter furnished ample rough
age for my 90 head eif stock. and last sum-
nler so acrcs of pasture did no better.
But il is not the food that makes the quail
ity Of milk, but the born development Of
the COW and, as result, better cows will
be selected, better food will be given, and
when consumed better assimilated, and
SO successful dairying will follow.
Why should not the State support a
dairy SCHOOL, Denmark is dotted all over
with government dairy schools. Sweden