The true northerner., 1899-08-30
Dairy Farming.

the pen OF Davis Haven was puDllSned
in the Lawrence Times last week, and is
worthy of republication:
There is nothing that succeeds like
success" Any careful observer, in rid
ing through the country, will find men
engaged in all branches of farming
i'm fruit growing; some grain; some sugar
beets, while some prefer cattle feeding,
and others the dairy COW. One will also
find people in all occupations that are
making a dismal failure, and seem to
work equally as hard. What is the rea-
son? Someone has said that "a success
full man is born, not made" Undoubted-
ly to question the successful man one
will find 1st, that he likes his business;
I'd, he knows his business; Sd, he does
his businessmen necessarily doing all
the muscular labor, but he is the power
that has it done. One will also observe
that the successful man cultivates his
brain as well as his fields and there is no
place where one needs good cultivated
brains more than in dairying.
The German farmers are the most sue
cessful in this country and the under
lying principles of agriculture are taught
in the schools of Germany; hence the
reason they are more successful. In sue
cessful dairying the first thing to de-
eide is: Have we got the right COW or
separator? Do you ever stop to think
that when we get our cow we have not
got our milk? Surely we have not. For
the milk is in the pasture, corn field and
granary, not in the COW. The COW is the
the machine or separator into which we
put our feed which contains milk and
she separates it for US, putting the milk
in the pail and the waste goes back to the
land for fertilizer. A 1000 10 COW appro-
pirates 10 lbs. of soluble food to her own
use each day and if we are feeding rank
pasture grass or fodder corn she will have
to eat 100 lbs. to get 10 lbs. of soluble
food, as the other is water and fiber Tor
the frame work of the plant.) Ii we feed
clover hay or corn fodder (cured) we will
have to feed about % lbs. to get 10. Again,
nature demands that the animal temper
ture, % degrees, be maintained and in
order to keep up the temperature the
food is burned or consumed in the ami
malls system by coming in contact with
the oxygen breathed in, just the same
as wood burns in the stove by allowing
the oxygen to come in contact with it..
Hence the reason we have a smaller mess
of milk on a cold day than on a warm
one. When the weather is cold the COW
has to burn more fuel (feedJ to maintain
her temperature, hence she has not as
much feed to make milk of Also the
test will be lower as the COW takes her
fat and consumes it to keep warm, and
being unable to burn it and put it in the
milk pail both, she uses it herself and
lets us go without, although this can be
remedied by having warm place for our
COWS when the weather is cool. Again,
last weeks issue of the Times gave re-
port of the creamery, telling the amount
of milk received, etc. If anyone will di-
vide the number of pounds of milk by 30,
the number of days in June, and again
10y 594, the probable number of cows, he
will find the cows gave on an average
IA los. apiece, which amount is so
small that it shows there are a lot of
poor COWS supplying milk at the cream
cry, or else there are a lot of mighty poor
feeders. Well, which is it? The same
authority tour experimental stations)
that say COW needs l0lbs. of soluble food
to maintain her, also say that the aver
age COW weighs l 900 lbs, will want % lbs.
of solu ble food to do her best, and it
takes l00lbs. of pasture grass or corn fod-
der 10 procure 10 lbs. of food, it will take
80 lbs. to produce % lbs. of food;
and who thinks a COW can eat $50
lbs. of grass day. Is it the cows
fault if she does not get all she wants to
eat or is it her owners fault? What pro-
portion of the l6S patrons think you are
feeding their cows grain the year around?
l7l5 cents is a good price for butter, and
there is some money in dairying at that
price for butter, or would be if it did not
cost SO much to produce it, Do farmers
ever stop to think that the cheapest milk
they can possibly get is the last milk that
the COW gives up to her full capacity?
In other words, its costs no more to main
tain a cow that gives large mess of milk
than it does one that gives small mess,
and when a COW gets what food she needs
for her maintenance she will turn what
more food she gets into the milk pail.
Farmers will do well to remember this:
That it is not what we get for thing but
what it costs us that determines the
profit. | intended to write comparison
of the benefits of dairy farming with grain
farming, but for fear | will make my
article too long and of too little interest,
| will close although there is much more
that could be said on the subject.
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