The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-02-28
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS 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.
selectIng pnlrr Gown.

Bulletin Arizona Experiment Sta
ton: The task Of selecting a dairy
herd is one that should be entered upon
with a great deal of thought and care.
The animal hat is to be fed for beef
is chosen for its supposed ability to
make meat and at the end of a COM
paratively short feeding period he goes
to market; whether he has made
money for his feeder or not, he goes to
the block just the same. The dairy
COW is selected for a long term of
service and, If a good COW, should go
on making milk and money for her
owner fer years. AS there is a wide.
difference in the capabilities of steers
to make beef. so is there a still wider
difference in the capabilities of COWS
to make butter. The intelligent dairy
man, the business farmer, puts him
self In a position to know which of his
cows are being kept at a profit and
which are not. The only way to do
this is to determine and keep a record
or the amount of milk and butter fat
given during the year by each individ-
ual COW in the herd. The amount of
butter fat given dusing the year is the
first test of the value Of a dairy cow.
Inc scales and the Babcock test must
be used to determine this.
The books of the creameries of Salt
River valley show that there are many
dairy cows that, during the last four
months at least, have not given their
a profit; sixteen patrons of
one creamery, milking lao cows, have
received but little over a dollar and
a half per month per cow. Every
creamery patron should at the end of
the month divide the amount of his
creamery check by the number of cows
In milk, thus getting the gross re-
celpts per COW for the month, then
compare this with the amount he
could have gotten by renting his pas
lure, and conclude whether or not the
difference has paid him the interest
on his money invested in cows, the
~pasturage of his dry COWS, and for the
work of milking and delivering his
milk to the factory. If the difference
happens to be in favor of renting pas
ture, possibly the growth of calves that
are being fed on the skim milk from
the factory will restore the balance to
the right side of the account. If, even
then, the difference in favor of the
dairy cows is too small, let the man
who wants to know the truth compare
his profits with those of his neighbors
before he concludes that dairying does
not pay. He will find that some of
his fellow patrons are getting hand
some returns. The question is, Why
the difference? The answer is, The
COWS.
AS truly as there is a typical beef
animal, broad, low and blocky, just as
truly is there a typical dairy animal,
but of a different type. Sometimes we
find a profitable combination of beef
and butter in the same animal, but it
is the exception rather than the rule.
While the scales and the Babcock test
should be depended upon for evidence
to decide in the final judgment of a
dairy cow, the eye should be trained
as well to see those points of con-
formation that indicate a high pro-
ductive capacity.