Arizona republican., 1898-07-22
BOVINE BREvITIEs.

milk has been slaughtered, and every drop of milk has been gathered up, and the largest amount ever found was about four quarts; hence, milk is lar- gely made during the time of milking;
 and the COW must be placed under fa- voIable conditions at the time, or you do not get the regular quantity of milk. Do not think that the milk is already there, and all you have to do is to draw l it out Only a small portion is in this 1 state. Most of it is not milk, and we must have things favorable for the COW
 to make this change.
 Which COW gives the most milk and
 produces the largest quantity of butter in year may be known to every far iner who has herd, but only few
 of them know the exact quantities for every day or week in the year, simply because they do not keep records. Then there is the cost of the milk and but tr to be known, as some cows are heavy feeders and do not produce ac-
 cordingly, while it is also possible for
 good COW to give large yields and yet
 not at cost to allow a profit.
 i Those who oppose or rfdicule the ! idea of raising the standard of the
 milk COW by killing off all that do not
 produce from 4,O00 to 5000 pounds of
 milk, or from 225 to 300 pounds of but
 ter in a year, from fear that it would
 result in giving a monopoly of the 1 business to the rich, who could afford
 to buy good COWS, or in producing so
 much milk and butter that it could
 not be sold at remunerative prices, have apparently made but little study
 of the question of political economy.
 T he American Cultivator suggests that
 the amounts named above are about as
 low as any one can produce milk and
 butter and obtain a fair remuneration
 for his labor and investment. The
 smaller amounts might pay him if up
 on cheap land, and growing his own forage and grain by cheap labor, that
 is, the labor of his own family.
 1 One or two signs will denote good COW, as we'll as twenty. In poor COW
 the thigh runs down straight, so there 1 is no space between the thigh and 1 the udder on one side and the tail on the other. There should be plenty of daylight between the udder and the tail. One of the best ways to tell what kind of COW you have is her tempera- ment. A ,.ood dairy type has a sharp spine, strongly developed nervous sys- temsand sharp hip bones. A good COW has large, wedge shaped stomach, for she must have a large and powerful di- gestive system to use up her food quickly and make the best returns for it. Some of the animals the first year made but little over 200 pounds per COW, while others gave over 300 pounds. We have kept up this record every year, and the last year our cows averaged 399 pounds per COW, and at a cost of only AZ cents per pound of
 butter for feed. One COW gave us 512 pounds during the year. These were not picked, high priced dairy cows, but the common run of dairy stock.-Prof Haecker.
 The largest butter producer in the world is Obadiah Smith of Illinois, who twelve years ago began with sin
 gle creamery, but made such a success ings until now he owns eighty cream cries, and he controls the products of
 as many more. He sold last year 1O,-
 00C,C00 pounds of creamery butter,
 worth two and half million dollars
 This requires the milk of 120,000 cows , Twenty carloads of salt are required
 to salt this butter, and it takes the
 milk from 5000 farms.
 It takes twelve quarts of ordinary whole milk to make one pound of but
 ter.
 Testing COWS is good, desirable thing to do, but testing the milker is quite as important. A poor milkec will
 make an unproitable co~-.