The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-01
FARM AND
GARDEN
LITTLE COMPETITION IN GOOD
DAIRYING.

In a late address to dairymen, Mr..
John Could said: 1.-The man with 275
pound butter-cow. or a 6,000-pounds-
of-milk factory COW fed ON the now
demonstrated best and cheapest foods.
is not finding hard competition. 1t is
the man with the common cow, vary
ing pasture feed and well ventilated
barn with hay ration for the winter
that is ground between the neither
milestone of western produce and that
of mis- more progressive neighbOr. To
say that the dairy does not pay is Sug-
gestive of practice that smacks of ira
dition and prejudice" In other words
the man who has COWS capable of the
above yields of butter or milk. who will
take the trouble to learn how to feed
them, and who raises or buys COW food
at economical prices, is sure to succeed
totally without regard to the prices
obtained in the market.
Is it then impossible to get such
COWS? Certainly not; they are to be
found in every community. Can you
feed them up to that production? You
certainly can if you take the trouble
to learn how from the books and pa
pers at your command. The only real
question, as stated by L. S. Hardin in
the Louisville Home and Farm, is,
have you the grit and perseverance
it until you succeed? Others are do
ing it all over the country, then why
not you?
The Babcock machine will show you
how to select COWS while the art of
feeding comes only by practice, and is
within the comprehension of the mean
est mind, as Goldsmith said of arfth-
metic, if only proper attention is paid
to it But this does not mean any kid
glove work. You must, in order to sue
coed, take off your coat and go to work
in dead earnest. Weigh the milk of
each COW twice day; see that each
one is fed the quantity and quality suit
ed to her demands. Then see that the
milk is properly and judiciously hand
led, that a good article is made from it
and sold at the top price. All this de-
Ponds upon strict attention to business,
and an intelligent effort 30 learn all
that is to be known about it; a healthy
ambition with reasonably clear head
will cover the whole field Of operations
Interest in dairy work comes anew
with the advent of warm weather. In
what line of Improvement will your
thoughts take action? Will you build
silo, new corn barn, plant crops to
head off the coming drouth and to
make a mixed ration? Will you make
an effort to improve the quality of your
herd by getting a Babcock machine
and putting the test to your cows,
wedding out the poor "boarders'' in the
herd. and holding fast only to what is
good?
Will you smash the greasy old crooks
big and little, or put pickles in them,
and buy you Baby or power separat-
or, and thus step into the front rank
of dairymen? Unquestionably the
most important of these three branches
of dairy work is the COW. Upon her
shoulders, after ALL falls the major
burden of the work. If she does not
turn her feed to good account so that
profit can be made from her milk, it
matters little how excellent your work
may be in the other departments. your
effort VIII be wasted. One good COW
will make you money, while the more
poor ones you have the worse off you
are. While. of course. there is dairy
type of cow that established breeders
should work to perpetuate in their
herds. yet it will not do to be too par
ticular about the form of the COW
while you are building up the herd.
Get only those that will give good
milk and plenty of it, for like trotting
horses, they go in all forms. If they
are only rich, persistent, strong milk
ers, with good udders and large teats,
they are what you want, and in after
years you can select such forms or
types as suit your fancy, but you must
first get the good workers. This you
can DO only by repeated and constant
testing. This becomes easy and pleas
amt work after you once get accuStCm-
ed to it, while the information is val
liable.