The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-07
The shorthorn as Dairy Cow.

twenty-five years l have been using
nothing but pure bred bulls on my
COWS. but the COWS have been grades.
The Shorthorn Is the only one of the
beef breeds that sometimes contains
very good mixers. A little while ago
had a conversation with a man who
ships beef cattle to the Chicago mar
ket and he said that he would take
the Shorthorn every time. About one
out Of three OF the heifer calves will
prove worth keeping as mixers. This
being the case, SO 1-3 per cent, or five
gut of every six of the calves pro-
duced must go to the feeder. The
value of five calves from each herd
Of well-kept Shorthorn COWS will be
about 500, while the same number Of
calves from a milking breed will not
be worth more than about $33. The
cream from Shorthorn milk does not
separate quite so readily as does the
cream from milk given by Jersey
cows, II the gravity process or old
style process Is used, but when the
separator is used there does not seem
to be any difference. The Shorthorn
COW is safer than the COW Of any otb~
er breed when the women have to dc
the milking. With the Jersey you
have to look out for the bull. The
dairymen Of Missouri are more or less
isolated, but if they want to start a
trial creamery the Shorthorn cows are
the best, for If they afterwards want
to get rid Of them they can be sold to
advantage for beef
Mr.. Patterson-We dairymen claim
that we can make a special dairy COW
give 300 pounds Of butter per year
but you can't make your Shorthorr
cows give more than 200 pounds CT
butter That 100 extra pounds of but
ter will more than Offset the decreased
value OF the dairy COW in other re-
spects.
Mr.. King-This is generally consid-
cred TO be question Of dollars and
cents. II my friend can produce his
200 pounds Of butter fat from his
shorthorn COW and make more money
than he could with a special dairy
COW, why that is the COW to have
But he does not say anything abou.
the cost of producing this butter The
probability is that every pound Of but
ter he made from this Shorthorn COW
cost about as much as he got for it.
have tried ii with that kind Of COW
and when / tested them with the
scales and the Babcock test, these
cows went out a the doors as fast as
| could get rid Of them. can't make
money from the general purpose COW.
| have fed them in the stalls and
made butter from them that cost me
II cents per pound. while butter from
my Jersey COWS cost me II cents per
pound. We can't tell what we are do
ing till we have the cost and selling
price OF pound Of butter. We are
not dairying for the fun Of it.
Q.-Why is the dairy COW more prof
table than the general purpose COW
for the dairy?
Mr.. King-Because she is born for
that purpose. / do not believe that
the general purpose COW has any place
whatever That has been my expert
ence.
Mr.. Erwin-The Jersey COW that
took the first premium at st. Louis
was fed five times day. For the last
four years | have been feeding ami
mails for beef purposes. and l have
found that there was less feed con-
suned per pound Of beef produced by
the beef COW than the dairy COW.
Mr.. King-Our Jersey cows will not
average over 500 pounds in weight,
while our Shorthorn COWS will aver
age 1000 pounds. That extra 200
pounds OF weight must be supported
and kept up. VIII it pay me to sup.
port the average weight Of a man fo'
fifteen years for the extra amount !
can get out of her beef? | can't af-
ford to do it. When my Jersey cows
get too old TO pay me to keep them
for milking purposes / sell them for
what | can get IL it is only the price
Of the hide. Ny loss that way is only
a small item compared with what 1t
would be II l were to keep 200 extra
pounds of live beef for fifteen years.
Mr.. Cobb-This myth (the general
purpose cow) is the hardest thing to
fight find in my business. If | could
only get that COW in the background
so far that she would never come back
again my business would be compara-
lively easy. Mr.. King said that the
average Shorthorn cow weighs 200
pounds more than the other, but as
she grows older she win put on more
beef (from 200 to 800 pounds more).
and that viii make her weigh from 400
to 500 pounds more than the Jersey
cow. II the dairyman takes a good
dairy cow she will make profit on
all food consumed. The fat-forming
habit has been bred into the beef COW
for generations. | would not for a
moment think of putting in herd
of general purpose COWS. have felt
for years and years that the subject
Of the general purpose cows should be
dropped. 1t seems to me that any
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