The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1898-12-28
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
VOW Successful Farmers operate This
Department OF the Farm A Few
Hints as to the Care Of Live STOCK
END Poultry.
Feeding and TestInT.

AT convention or farmers In Tas-
mania, G. NJ. Barnard said: Cows
must be fed regularly. and their rationB
evenly adjusted. When first starting
to feed at the beginning of the winter
weigh the contents Of their different
measures. so one can give each COW the
proper quantity. The full ratlons that
my cows get when little or no grazing
Is available. are six pounds bran or
pollard, pounds oil cake, mixed to-
gether with chaffed straw, forty pounds
mangolds. and twenty-five to thirty
pounds Of rape or green stuff, and fed
as follows: Before milking in morn
ing. bran and oil cake; after milking,
mangolds; before milking in evening,
oil cake and bran; after milking, man
colds; and the last thing at night, oil
cake, and bran and greenstun. The
cost OF this ration was As. Cd. per COW
for each week, and II the grazing Is
Of any consequence the proportions
are reduced, and given a good season
the cost % he reduced to 30. 80.
With higher feeding | could get
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the ration would not be compensated
for by the value OF the increased yield
To 60 and put good food down the
scrub cows throat Is the surest and
easiest way OF proving that winter DAT
| rying won't pay. / have done II and
don't want to do It again, as the FOL
lowing Incident will show, Some years
ago, when first using the Babcock
Tester, It was during the winter
months, eight COWS we're being MIXED,
and their average was FIVE pounds per
week. when the tester got to work II
reveRied the fact that the best COW was
making eight pounds and the worst
three and one-half pounds per week;
the cost OF feeding was Is. per head
and the price OF butter Is. I'd. per
pound one left 5s 4d. profit while
the other had only one penny to her
credit or, to put 1t another way, the
best cows butter cost Cd. per pound to
produce. and the worst Is. 81 d.. or
very nearly what the butter sold for.
At the time Of writing. September s,
the weeks butter from eight cows to-
tailed 73A pounds or an average Of
90 pounds per COW. The feeding. prln-
cipally grazing, came to 80. per head.
80 that quantity Of butter cost frac-
ton undo. I'D. per pound to produce.
To show that few good cows will
yield a higher profit than a lot OF in
ferior or medium ones, take as an ex-
ample n farmer milking twenty head
with an average OF Ave pounds per
week and getting Is. per pound for his
butter; say the feeding expenses are
IS. per head. Those twenty cows pro-
duce 100 pounds Of butter 10 the value
Of f5. the eight head yield, say, seven
ty-two pounds, or value Of fS 12s. I;
but the twenty cows cost GO to feed,
and the eight fl Is, so really the eight
cows show SIS. more profit per weel,
than the twenty. A great many people
look upon this testing the cows as a
fad or hobby. all very well to be In
dulged In II you have the time to waste,
and they quite fail to see its value.
Its value is that you find out what cows
pay and what don't; and another thing,
II will be found that there will be a
growing desire to improve when once
this sort Of thing Is begun. | am GER
tain that there Is more money to be
made out of flrst-class dairy herd
than out Of any other branch OF farm
ing, and more to be lost II you own
scrubbers.