The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-03-14
AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm - A Few
Hints as to tIse Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.


Dairy Mites.
Every farmer that carries on dairy
ing, to even a limited extent should
provide for an ice supply. Where such
4 supply is to be put in this is the
time to consider it. The question OF
storage is not a 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 1t 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
or 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 flavors are
developed, and also makes it possible
to keep the finished product in a con-
dition where it VIII not de~teriorate.
.
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-
ter-associations 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 it's 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 beer
figuring out the pedigree of the so
called native" COW of this country
and brings to the light some old fact
that are worth recording. AS early a
1911 dairy COWS were brought to Vir
g1nia from England and 13 years late
there was an importation into the Ply
mouth colony. This was in 1924
These COWS were brought from Devon
shire, England, and were doubtless o
the same stock as that from which tn,
Devon breed was developed at a late
period. This probably accounts TO
2 the predominance of red color in tn
! native New England cattle. Whethe
. or not the Virginia COWS were fror
the same locality we do not know TO
t a certainty. At a little later perio
evidently cattle were imported int
e Virginia from Spain. These cattl
were black. The Dutch, having sci
e tied New York, naturally brough
cows from their own country. Som
: Of these are known to have come frol
S an island off the coast of HOLLAND
n That was before the development {
fixed breeds even in Holland, but "
e may fairly infer that they were RI
S lated to the progenitors of the Dutc
). belted cattle. Delaware was provide
6 with cattle from Sweden, and it is sal
Il that from Denmark were brought tt
a cattle hat became famous in Ne
Hampshire. Coming down to revolt
tionary times we find that cattle ha
at that date, been previously importe
from Great Britain and Ireland in col
j. siderable numbers. Some of these, v
t. know from tradition, were viii
l. Durhams, especially white Durha
% bulls. The general mixup of all
these breeds, which subsequently too
l. place, gave us the almost endless v
+ riety of form and color o seen