The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-05-07
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING cHAPTEEs FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm A Few
Hints as TO the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.


Dairy Notes.
Australian and New Zealand butter
is coming to be quite factor in the
English market, where it is arriving in
large quantities. The amount of butter
sent to England from the Localities
named is nearly three times what 1t
was three years ago.
We hope that readers of the Farm
ers' Review will not lose sight of the
fact that the Grout bill is now before
the United States senate and needs the
help of every COW owner to get 1t
through. A postal card or letter
dropped to each of the senators from
your state will assist materially. Do
not neglect the matter, but see that 1t
is attended to at once.
One of the hardest things to get
farmers to do is to Gull out from their
herds the Improbable cows. The dali
ryman that carries on his business In
a thoroughly scientific manner will be-
all the time culling out the animals
that he believes to be Improbable.
Some of the heifers that are kept year
after year in the hope that they may
develop milking qualities. Yet some
of these are so Informed in their I'D
ders that it can be easily seen that
thew can never be good mixers or
profitable in any sense. II they are
used for breeders they are not likely
TO produce offspring that will be prof
table. The animals that are unproft-
able must be hunted out and disposed
of.
The contest between the two systems
of operating creameries, the co-opera-
tive and the individual systems, is pc
rennial. Whether the one or the other
shall be adopted depends on circum-
stances. The circumstances" cluster
around the question OF mutual conn
dence of the farmers in each other
creamery to be successful, whether II
be cooperative or individual, must be
carried on in a thoroughly business
like manner Some cooperative cream
cries have men at their head that are
able TO grasp the situation and carry
forward wise, conservative policy
from year to year. Such institutions
are proving very successful and are an
example to others. On the other hand
many cooperative creameries nave
gone down because of bad management
and jealousy. There are some things
that we have to learn and one OF them
is how to successfully cooperate
The practice Of buying dairy COWS
instead of raising them is one that Is
uroying an obstacle in the way OF i'm
provement. The men that go out. pick
up good, new mich cows, keep them
through the most profitable part OF
the period of lactation and then sell
them to the butcher. are constantly
depicting the number of good cows
The best dairymen cry out against this
practice, which indeed is profitable to-
day but will prove ruinous tomorrow
We understand that even one of the
very big diaries in New Jersey fol-
lows this same practice. having Their
COWS shipped in by car loads from
Iowa. The question naturally arises
Why do they not purchase the COWS
they want nearer home? The answer
suggests itself, which is, that the field
near home has been already exhausted
by the same practice that is now be
ing followed in the West 1t is the
testimony of some of our thinking mer
that own daiTies that their prac-
tice Of this method proved to them thai
it was not a wise course to follow
They once bought cows to turn ovel
to the butcher, but they now as loudly
call out against the practice. We may
be assured that if the dairy in tn,
: East mentioned could buy the cow
they need in New York, Ohio, Indiana
or Illinois that course would be fol
lowed Popular sentiment among
, farmers should be nodded against this
practice, which is carried on to tn,
detriment of the community. We ar,
sure to see somewhat the same result.
from this practice that we now Sc,
from the practice of selling off the
? brood mares. which was followed To-
so many years.