The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-08

one Of the most Interesting and in,'
structlys papers read at the recent
meeting Of the Ohio county farmeF5
institute, at Elm Grove, was that on
'Refotms in the Dairy" delivered By
s. y. Simpson. OF this city,
himself an experienced dairy
nun, His paper. which is given n.
fuIl-below, contains many pertinent and
profitable suggestions Mr. simpson
said:
The time when haphaznrd, hit and
miss dalrylng can be conducted on O.
paying basis has gone blythe dairy
man Of to-day. Il he would reap an nd,
eqpate reward for his labor must keep
abreast Of the times. The COW 70 no
longer regarded as an animal who can
swallow certnin amount Of food
without regard to It's quality Or Atq
constituents ana give back q certain
quantity of milk which can be handled
by any novice and served in any and
every conceivable manner by the FsF-
TEST tyre in the milk buslness. The
pioneers OF advanced dairylng have At
last awakened the masses to the fact
that the COW is delicately organized
and highly sensitive piece Of animal
mechanism She is ready and willing
to return her owner the full value OF
her food at all times. She responds
readily to kind and humane treatment,
but quickly rnsents III usage.
Give the properly bred "Bossyp the
proper food in the proper manner,
house her in the style her vocation de-
mands and she is q yainsbir animal.
But she demands the same advanced
Treatment that man himself demands.
The time was when the farmers house
wherein he lived and reared his family
was a much more open and exposed
structure than to-day Is accorded to
many herds Of cows The log cabin
with clapboard roof and stick chim-
ney, has gone and In its. stead stands
the comfortable farm house. The
dairy farmer of to-day Is not the rough
pncultpred man Of fifty years ago. he
Is daily learning how we can best as
slst nature In the war Of the plants
and how to gather from his farm
those values which he most needs for
the economic production of milk. He
Is constantly soaking ways by which he
can assist his herd in the winter
months to the equivalent of the suceu-
lent food that It gathers In the June
pasture fields. Ho has learned that
the porteur. the carbohydrates and the
ether must hold certain ratios toward
the dry matter that the COW takes into
her stomach in order to produce the
best results. The day when the dairy
farmer feeds his COW on dry corn
stalks, timothy hay and cornmeal and
then condemns the COW for not return
ing a fine pail Of milk is gone forever,
ana the intelligent herdsman is made
glad by having free access to a we'll
balanced daily ration for the animals
in his charge.
But there are yet other things TO be
considered in connection with dairy
ing than the feeding of the COW. There
Is her house; 1t must be warm and
comfortable. A COW standing where
the cold winter wind strikes her
through a crack in her house wall, will
require at least one pound more hay
each day to keep her warm. That
means two hundred pounds Tor the
season; at $40 ton the hay would be
worth 81, of grain she viii need Just as
much, making 81 per COW. Now Il you
have thirty COWS there Is a loss Of 500
the price OF one very good COW each
year. Institute the reform movement
by boarding up these expensive cracks.
There are four things a successful
dairymap must have, proper food. a
good man, lead pencil and shotgun.
His COWS must have food suited to
making milk He must have a reii-
abls, sober, honest, kind. careful man
to feed and care for his COWS. He must
have lead pencil to note down the
amount Of food each indiYldual COW Is
getting and how much milk she Is re-
turning. If the good man with proper
food cannot make the lead pencil Rg-
ure the balance on the right side Of