The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-05-26
SPECIAL DAIRY COWS.
They Are an Absolute Necessity for
the Economical and Steady Pro-
ductiOn OF Prime Butter.

We must all recognize the fact that
the COW is the foundation for the dairy.
She is the machine with which the dali
ryman does his work. The machine by
which he produces milk and butter.
She takes the raw materials-the hay,
corn, oats, bran, ETC., and converts them
into the finished product. Of course
she is more than mere machine as she
reproduces her kind as we'll as sus-
sustains her life. But aside from these
functions, her value is confined to her
power to manufacture milk. This be-
ing the case, the dairyman in selecting
a cow is concerned in the selection of an
animal which is most efficient in this
productive power. The manufacturer
in selecting machinery for his factory
chooses that best adapted for the in
tended work. Economy and efficiency
are the qualities desired, that machine
which will produce the most and best
work with the least waste of fuel and
energy. The farmer or dairyman is as
truly manufacturer as the man max
ing cloth, tools or clothing. His farm
is his factory and his cows his ma
chinery by which he works the raw ma
terial of his farm into milk, butter, or
cheese. The same principles governing
the selection of machinery in the fac
tory, should govern the selection of his
COWS. He wants, for the economical
production of milk, the COW that will
produce the greater profit-the cow
that will produce the most and best
milk at the least cost. In other words,
the COW especially adapted to the pro-
duction OF butter-the special purpose
COW. The old fallacy of double pur-
pose COW is giving way before the de.
mands of more scientific methods OF
farming, although she still has earnest
adherents. Not but they admit that the
special beef animal will produce more
and cheaper beef, and the special dairy
COW will produce butter at less cost
than the general purpose COW, the claim
being that there is greater profits from
combining the two. We suppose the
adhercnts to this idea would advocate
the use of the old-fashioned combined
reaper and mower for grain and grass
The reaper with the rake or droppe,
would not be as efficient in the grain
field as the improved self-binders, MOI
the mower as economical in time and
horse power as the ball-bearing mower
of present date; nevertheless one ma.
chine could be used for both purposes
Any up-to-date farmer would scott al
the idea of such machine on his farm
yet the same man will cling to the no
ton that the double purpose COW is the
most profitable. And why? Simply be.
cause in the one case the advantage oil
the special machine is easily apparent
while in the other case he has not taken
the trouble to know, through investiga
ton, the value of one COW over another
But the successful dairyman of the flu.
ture is going to be driven to more in.
innate knowledge of his COWS. He will
be compelled to exercise the most care
1ul Judgment in selecting a cow tina,
will produce butter at the greatest net
profit. Loose and Indifferent methods
in all departments of farming must b,
supplanted by the intelligent applica
ton OF the most approved tools anG
methods. Dairying is no exception
The dairyman Of the future must o.
necessity, we predict, manufacture hi.
butter with a special dairy cow.-G. w
Rulings, in Prairie Farmer.