Evening journal., 1902-11-21

into milk the original COWS were sold
of, from time to time, the poorest first.
He has only black and whites now. The
oldest COW of his raising is now years
old, and probably about at her best.
He has but one of that age. The others
are younger and not up to their best
yet. This 5-year-old gave 1927 pounds
of milk the first year, as a 2-year-old.
She was only dry II days before she
started in fresh as a 3-year-old and
gave S,163 pounds the second year and
over 5000 the third as 4-year old.
Cows Valuable
This season. as a 5-year-old, she has
started ont better than ever decidedly,
giving actually 591s pounds Of milk in
"a hours and Sc $40 pounds average
per day fora week, 21 days from calv-
ing. 1t is amusing to think that Rob-
eIt sold the calf that grew up into this
COW to a man for $3.50. When he came
for her she was not doing well, and
he made a change, paying SO for an
other one, little older. Why, she
would have been cheap at $50. She is
worth $3.50 today, if she is worth one
cent. Good friends, who keep common
stock and think you can't afford to
improve them, want to say to you that
the whole cost OF this Improvement in
money has come back in this one cow,
and all the other choice animals have
cost nothing. There may not be any
others that will quite come up to this
one, but there are several probably that
at years old will give so pounds of
milk a day. or more. Any one of them
at years old gave, or will give, about
twice as much as ordinary dairies OF
| full grown COWS average, taking all
there are in a county. Doesn't this
/ pay? What a chance for the young
men who read, who are now getting
perhaps no moro than 5000 or 1000
pounds of milk from a COW in a season.
But it will take something more than
merely buying a pure bred sire. Yes
he must be a good individual, as well as
have a good pedigree. The calves must
! be raised without at any time being
/ fattened. They must be fed food that
will make them grow steadily, but not
| such as will cause them to take on fat
/ They must be properly fed when Civ
| ing milk, and warmly sheltered and
| kindly treated You must use your
brains a little more, not going along
in the old easy, rather thoughtless way
But, my, think of the difference in in
come, when you get about three times
as much milk with very little, if any
more feed used. Oh, what a chance
there is for the boys now, along such
improved lines Of dairying-" +"
Kill of Scrub Males
All Of that can be exactly paralleled
with poultry il one will buy the pure
bred male and kill off the old scrut
males, and one great advantage Of buy
ing pure bred males in poultry is thai
the returns come I'M so Immediately
The heifer calves don't begin to give
returns until two years old. but The
pullets begin to pay for their pure breC
sire at five to six months Old. and be
fore that time the cOckerels, by then
increase in size, will have already pail
for him. "A good WyandOtte or Ply
mouth Rock cockerel will give poun'
Increase in weight to IN
cockerels he begets, and a pounI
increase ON forty TO fifty chickens vii
pay for the pure bred male. We spcal
of this now because the fall and earl.
viner is the time Ito buy because yol
get the early Matched and fully mature
birds now. If you put off buying til
towards spring the breeders Will nav
sold of the earliest and best, therefore
we urge you to buy now and be pre-
pared for next seasons breeding; tn
pure bred male, if of the right stuff
means more and better chickens, dou