The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18
Experience as a Farmer and Dairy
man

The following paper, read before
recent Ontario farming institute by
Sills Shaver, Winchester Springs, Ont,
will be interesting reading to many
Utah farmers similarly situated:
As a farmer l have tried Darlington
a small scale and raising grain for
market; not being satisfied altogether
with my results Herewith, on account
of low grain prices / then went into
horse-raising to quite an extent, and
was quite successful until prices in that
line began to fail. Then having a
farm adapted for raising hay / sold all
my horses except those necessary for
carrying on farm work, and all my
cows except one, and four Jersey heif-
erS and a pure bred Jersey bull calf
/ then thought / would raise hay for
market. The second year l could not
sell at any price. Then, seeing 1 was
going to run down my farm, l thought
l would raise some Jerseys. But not
knowing anything about winter dairy
ing, and only milking my COWS about
seven months each year, and not know
ing how to feed my stock as l should,
l could not see where there was any
real profit in keeping COWS. If there is
such a thing as the blues, I had them
then. Just here a man came along to
buy four of my high grade Jersey
heifers, which 1 was glad to sell. After
he bought them he persuaded me that
winter dairying was just the thing,
and also highly recommended the silo
He also gave me a couple of copies of
Hoard'S Dairyman. and after eXamin-
ing them carefully l saw that in this
paper was the information l so much
needed. ! at once signed for the paper
and have been reader of that paper
ever since [ owe my success in dairy
any farmer ought 10 have. l concluded
after he was gone that / would plant
corn. Git being in April them, and. also
build q silO. ] at once had my six Jer-
sey cows served by my Jersey bull,
calculating to try winter dairying; l
also bought in the fall four fresh milk
cows. and entered upon winter dairy
ing, which has proved to me very prof
tia bic. l then began to test my COWS
by weighing each cows milk, setting
the same separately, and weighing the
cream also, churning each cows cream
separately and weighing butter. 1t
proved a wonderful revelation to me.
Some disappointed me one way and
some the other. In the fall of 1892 1
purchased more COWS. also a Laval
cream separator and a Babcock milk
tester, and shortly after that time l
got a market for my butter at pc. per
pound by the year. I began at once
TO study the COW. What TO feed, and
how to care. l found that it was
through kind treatment, proper feed
and bedding. and most necessarily, a
warm stable. 1 have been able to
bring uD those cows. all Of which are
young. and some only 10 months old
when milking. TO average $50 per head
for butter, which was marketed only,
not counting my skinned milk, or milk
and butter for family use. | am de-
lighted with dairyins both winter and
summer. and know that it pays. l also
can increase my average per COW con-
sidera BILE. l am now getting &c. per
pound for my butter. | always milk
my COWS II months each year. My
herd now consists of 81 cows and Is
heifers. [ raise all my ,ieifer calves.
II am also delighted with my cream
separator, and l do not see how any
man can make a success of farming
without keeping a good stock of good
COWS. and then feeding them well. If
it pays to keep them AT all, (and it
does), it pays to keep them well; find
il So