The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-08-08


Nearly all farmers have COWS. Their
collective possessions in the bovine line
comprehend every kind of COW from
the poorest to the best-pure bred,
cross bred and ANY old bred" A
farmers COW is a cow which belongs
to a farmer, and that is about the only
general definition of the term. "a
farmers COW" is not any particular
breed Of cow or type of COW. Never
theless the expression has been so long
applied to any sort of COW that no one
else will have that it becomes sugges-
tive OF a second rate scrub. Why
such a COW should be dubbed a farm
er's COW" any more than some other
body's cow is the result of the notion
that the farmer only needs cow that
will drop a big calf, give little milk
a little while. then get fat and be
made into bad beef.
Scrubs of all breeds have been found
proficient in this performance and sold
to farmers as dual purpose COWS. 1t
does not follow that because a cow
belongs to a farmer she is a scrub, but
when you hear the expression farm
er's cow" scrub comes to mind. It
is q misnomer. The farmer wants as
good a COW as any one else, and if
among the various breeds he cannot
find type to suit him we cannot i'm
agine what he wants. The farmers
cow should be pure bred or a grade
of some pure breed and. being a pure
bred. should be called by her breed
name, not lose her identity and repu-
tation in the questionable epithet.
farmers cow"
We notice that the manage of big
show contemplate offering a thousand
dollar prize for farmers COWS" Just
what kind of cow or what breed or
what type is not stated-just a farm
er's cow" as though cow for a farm
er must be selected from outside the
pedigree breeds which already have
prize money. 1t is backwoods no.
ton. 1t has been fostered somewhat
Of late under the dual purpose dis
guise, but the farmers COW" has be-
come thing Of the past-and bad
past. 1t is a backward step to encour-
age the breeding of scrubs and mon
grels by offering prizes on what are
currently understood as farmers
cows. Jersey Bulletin.
Dairying ON High Priced Land.
1t is truism that that branch Of
agriculture which requires the most
painstaking work is the most profita-
BILE when the work is we'll done.
Dairying in any of it's branches be-
longs to that class of farming, as does
truck farming. These two branches
are about the only ones which can be
successfully conducted on the high
priced lands in many sections. We do
not often find the owner or renter Of
land valued at 500 or $3.50 per acre
depending en- corn, hogs or beef for
his income, but we can find the dairy
man doing business on land valued at
these high prices. If the dairyman can
make a profit on land so high priced
that the beef man cannot do business,
how much more profitable would it be
on land so low in price that the beef
man can afford to farm it?
Reduced Export of Cheese
In cheese exports the United States
is going backward. In 1900 we ex-
ported nearly 100000 pounds Of
cheese and only 100000 pounds in
1901. This decline in exports is at
tributed to the development of cheese
making in Canada, where cheesemak-
ers from Europe have settled to in
crease domestic demand, and to the
filed cheese swindle of some years
ago. Our exports of cheese in 1901
were 80 per cent less than in 1870,
whereas Canadian exports in the same
time increased 800 per cent, says an
exchange.
Analysis of Cream.
Cream varies widely in composition
owing to the amount Of fat it contains,
but the following may be said to be the
average composition: AK
Per cent.