Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-26
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department. of the Farm - Few
Hints to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.


Every farmer that carries on dairy
ing, to even a limited extent should
provide for an ice supply. Where such
supply is to be put in this is the
time to consider it. The question OF
storage is not difficult one to solve.
On most farms there is some building,
or part of building, easily drainable,
where the ice may be stored. The
packing material is cheaper for the
farmer than for any other man, wheth-
er it be chaff, straw or old hay, as the
professional ice-man has to purchase
these of the farmers. No city family
that can afford to buy ice ever thinks
of being without it, and it is no more
a luxury in the city than in the coun-
try To the dairyman it is ex-
ceedingly valuable, if he is trying to
make good butter; for it enables him
to keep his ripening cream at a low
temperature, where the best favors are
developed, and also makes it possible
to keep the finished product in a con-
dition where it viii not deteriorate.
This seems to be an era of co-opera-
ton and combination even in the dairy
world. In the eastern states and in
New York buyers and retailers of milk
In the big cities have formed, within
the last few. years, some pretty strong
combinations for the purchasing of
milk at the best terms. Naturally this
has stimulated the forming of coun-
demonstrations among the milk pro-
ducers. Now these have begun the
work of consolidation, and out of this
has grown the Central Association
of the Five States Milk Produc-
ers' Association This association
is at present vigorously prosecut-
ing its work, and among other
things has fixed a net rate of three
cents per quart that every member
must receive for his milk. Their rules
also throw all expense of shipment,
such as station fees and freight, onto
the buyers of the milk. The producers
of milk have been forced into a posi-
ton where they must combine for de-
tense against the rapacity of the
wholesale buyers of milk
Tracing the evolution of breeds is
always interesting. Someone has been
figuring out the pedigree of the So
called native" COW of this country
and brings to the light some old facts
that are worth recording. AS early as
1911 dairy cows were brought to Vir-
g1nia from England and 13 years later
there was an importation into the Ply
mouth colony. This was in 1924.
These cows were brought from Devon
shire, England, and were doubtless of
the same stock as that from which the
Devon breed was developed at a later
period. This probably accounts for
the predominance of red color in the
native New England cattle. Whether
or not the Virginia cows were from
the same locality we do not know for
certainty. At a little later period
evidently cattle were imported into
Virginia from Spain. These castle
were black. The Dutch, having set
tied New York, naturally brought
cows from their own country. Some
of these are known to have come from
an island off the coast of Holland.
That was before the development OF
fixed breeds even in Holland, but we
may fairly infer that they were re-
lated to the progenitors of the Dutch
belted cattle. Delaware was provided
with cattle from Sweden, and it is said
that from Denmark were brought the
cattle that became famous in New
Hampshire. Coming down to revolu-
tionary times we find that cattle had
at that date, been previously imported
from Great Britain and Ireland in con-
siderable numbers. Some of these, we
know from tradition, were white
Durhams, especially white Durham
bulls. The general mixup of all OF
these breeds, which subsequently tool
place. gave us the almost endless va
riety of form and color now seen IL
American cattle.
Money In Hogs.