Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-07-03
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ed at Lampasas, Tex. This heifer was
sired by the three times grandson of
imported Tormentor, A. p. Anderson
30145. She has a heifer calf by D. w.
Phillips combination bull, Kings
Landseers Pogis 5D5S1. This heifer is
two years and eight months old, and
her udder measures fifty-three inches
around when flush. She bids fair to
break the Texas record as a mixer,
Right Kind of D~n.rymnn.
/ like the calves because / like good
lows and realize the fact that the foun-
dation of q good COW IS q good calf.
Sometimes ] come across a good COW
that a be bought at a reasonable
price, but the surest way to get a good
cow is to raise her from a calf Of
known good parentage. There are peo
pie who yet believe they can feed but
ter fat into milk.
My experience, however. is that when
you have a cow that gives blue milk,
blue milk she will make even on the
richest kind Of food and when 1t is
given to her In fullest supply, and
when you have a COW that gives rich,
creamy milk thats butter makers and
milk consumers like, rich milk she will
give even IL she has nothing but corn
stalks or poor hay to eat. Feed deter,
mines the quantity Of milk, while the
blood Of the animal determines the
milk's richness. For that reason it
does not pay to bother with calves of
blue milk stock unless for selling milk,
and hardly then, o does 1t pay to
fuss with a calf that for any reason is
lacking In individual vigor.-T. Green
er In Farm and Fireside.
That Horrid Bog Hole.
1t Is an awful sight to see dairy
cows come wading into the barn
through a pond OF mud and manure
tea coming up to the udder and wet
ting and bedaubing the teats so soon
to be stripped of their fluids. Say.
there Is little poetry about the cows
coming home In the cleaning when
they wade through this horrid bog
hole. And the worse of II is there is
no need OF such a slough of despond.
Take a team and draw In some old
stock bottom or other trash IL you can
do no better and I'LL up the hole. Next
summer you can draw it out for ma
r and fill up with dirt. Get rid OF
the nuisance In some way. 1t is rob-
bing you Of money and your cows Of
health.
A Difference That Makes h Proat.
IL my whole herd did no better than
the poorer half. my business would be
a dead loss. II, on the other hand, the
entire herd did as well as the better
halt. there would be a big profit In the
business. The education that comes
from keeping track of the production
OF each cow Is more than sentiment or
gratifying idle curiosity. said Massa-
chusetts' largest dairyman. G. II. El-
lis. at q recent grange meeting.
Practice Economy.
MIR producers should practice more
economy in production and produce
more feed on their farms. There are
not enough silos among dairymen, not
enough accounts kept with the individ-
ual COWS, to make dairying profitable
at present rates.
A Pearl OF Great Price.
Some farmers wives can MAKE good
butter onc q week. II Is the one that
can make good butter every time she
tries that In q pearl OF great price and
worth her weight In gold or gilt edged
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