The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-29

favorable conditions. we conceive
some conditions under which one
might make a good business venture
in growing stock by selling COWS
with records behind them. Select a
tested herd of good individuals, head
with a good bull from a family of
notable cows, keep records of yields
of milk, butter fat, and yields of
actual butter; then raise all the
heifer calves to become COWS with
second and third calves of their own
before sold. Such COWS should com
mand the top prices far and wide,
and should call purchasers.
These will have become sources of
income, and from such as they
might he, it is easy to show a good
income for fifty to one hundred, or
even one hundred and fifty dollars,
with annual sums laid aside for sink
ing funds to replace the cow when
she has completed her work.
There are many farms so located
that the products which T offered
for sale should be reduced in bulk
and increased in value to the utmost
limit. On these farms, far from
easy transportation to market, the
milk from such = 1,erd of COWS turned
into butter anu cheese, bacon and
hams and calves meets these require
ments. Next to the animals them
selves which can walk to market,
these are the easiest to ship, because
the highest values can be condensed
into the least weight and space.
But to return to buying COWS, a
bad practice at best, positively bad
this year we are prepared to affirm.
Having heard of tho fame of a GER
tain COW, we journeyed to see and
perhaps buy her. Every neighbor
interviewed on the road agreed that
she was a good cow sure enough.
The realization was a yield of three
gallons of milk a day, and six pounds
of butter a week, or on high feed
eight pounds. Cow fenced into a lit
tie yard and fed too scantily for one
expected to yield a valuable calf in
five or six weeks, and reach her
maximum profit during the spring.
And this was the best COW, though
far from the best fed one, found in
nearly a days journey. Young Jer-
sey COWS with slender, pipe-stem
teats and udders that would be cred
liable on goats, with milk veins one
has to feel twice to find, T not over
promising. We found some COWS Of
common stock, with low milk capa-
city, but the brood muzzle and gen
eral appearance Indicate that they
would do better if bred to a beef sire
and then suckle the calf for no other
use than to make beef.
But for dairy production, the COWS
of North Carolina can never take
the place which shall head off the
local receipts of butter and cheese,
and put these articles in the list of
products shipped out of the State in
quantity, until more dairymen are
developed who love the business, and
who will keep systematic records of
their work. When milk and other
records are kept there will be i'm
provement, and the poor and average
will not be wanted. This is
one of the first steps upward.
Bulletin No. 116, n. c.. Experiment
Station, was designed to help begin
ners at Improvement in these lines.
AS long as it remains in print Il copy
can be had for a postal card, and
directions for starting to make a rec
ord with least effort will be found
Frank E. Emery, in Dixie Dairyman
With mUddy roads, horses and
wagons should be included in the
farmers sinking fund.
No community can cut down its
taxes by cutting up its highways
with narrOw-tired wagons.
"YOur husband painted the house
himself this spring, didn'the?' asked
n of her neighbOrs.
well. yes" was the wifn'c an