The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1901-03-07
Dairy Notes.

Dairy Notes
Australian and New Zealand butter
Is coming to be quite a factor In the
English market, where 1t 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 COY owner to get 1t
through. A postal card or letter
dropped to each Of the senator's from
your state will assist materially. DO
not neglect the matter. but see that 1t
IL 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 dai-
ryman that carries on his business IN
a thoroughly scientific amer will be
all the time culling out the animals
that he believes to be unprohtable.
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
they can never be good mixers OF
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 unpront-
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. A
creamery to be successful, whether IL
be cooperative or individual, must De
carried on In a thoroughly business
like n Some cooperative cream
cries have men at their head that are
able to grasp the situation n carry
forward a wise, conservative policy
from rear to year. Such institutions
are proving very successful and are an
example to others. On the other nano
many cooperative creameries nave
gone down because Of bad management
and jealousy. There are some Things
hat we have to learn and n OF them
Is how to successfully cooperate.
The practice of buying dairy cow
instead Of raising them is one that Ii
proving an obstacle in the way OF I'M
movement. The men that go out, plcH
mn good new mich cows. keep them
through the most profitable part O.
the period of lactation and then sci
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 n OF The
very big diaries in New Jersey fol
lows this same practice, having theil
COWS shipped in by a 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 felt
near home has been already exhausted
by the same practice that is now be
ing followed in the West. 1t Is thu
testimony of some of our thinking mer
thai own dairies that their prac-
tice of this method proved to them tina
1t was not a wise course to follow
They once bought cows to turn owe
to the butcher, but they now as loudl,
call out against the practice. We ma,
be assured that II 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 anon,
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 results
from this practice that we now se'
from the practice of selling off the
brood mares. which was followed TO
SO many years.