The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-06-10
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Inc IooQlDS OF peer caves ny Tue
butter dairyman necessitates the buy
ing of the calves of q beef strain, for
sle butter dairyman cannot afford to
keep beef COWS or Jack of all trades
COWS, which some talk so much about
under the name of dual purpose"
COWS, says Practical Farmer-that is
g COW half way milk and butter and
lalf way beef and never the best for
either The calves from butter COWS
cannot be made to tip 1900 pounds in
a year, and if they did it would all be
inside fat and no loins worth men
tioning. The dairyman can afford to
raise his heifer calves on skim milk
and grain, but he had better let the
beef animals alone unless he can buy
first class beef calves for the purpose.
We have heard Of the dairy Short
horns and have spent a good deal of
money to find them. If they ever ex-
listed they have been bred out in get
ting the true use of the ShOrthorn, the
best of beef We have never yet talk
ed about special purpose cattle but
some Shorthorn man rises to explain
that the Shorthorn is the greatest ami
NAL either for dairy or beef. The fact
is that an animal which is the finest
dairy animal cannot possibly be a
fine beef animal and vice versa. The
two characters are Numerically OPP
posed, and just to the extent that
Shorthorn or any other beef breed de-
velops fine dairy qualities. to that ex-
tent she becomes poorer beef animal.
Mere size does not make an animal
good beef. and fat laid on by dairy
animal inside is not as profitable as
| the fat laid on the loins of real beef
animal. If mans interest is In but
ter let him keep the best cows for that
purpose and leave baby beef to the
beef men, while he more proftably
uses his skim milk to raise heifers and
feed pigs.
The Minnesota Test.
The dairy and food department OF
Minnesota has inaugurated a record
test of dairy herds and will collect
some interesting figures upon the rec
ords made by various herds and IN
dividual members of the herds. The
test will be continued one year. and
records will be taken of the number
of pounds of butter fat secreted by
each cow and the amount Of food re-
ouired to produce it. Feeds and con-
ditions will be varied from time to
time and results noted. This test WI
no doubt be productive Of much in
formation in regard to individual PEI
Torrance Of the various members OF
the herd.
A Maryland Milk situation.
All the milk and cream sold near
Sandy Spring, Md, are bought by two
men, one of whom buys all the milk,
about 400 gallons per day, and pays sc
cents per 100 pounds in summer and
$1.5O in winter. says correspondent
of Rural New Yorker. The other buys
all the cream. about thirty-f1ve gallons
per day, and pays As cents per gallon
in summer and so cents in winter. We
have no railroad. The buyers send the
milk and cream to Washington, eight
cen miles distant, by wagon. The mill
is sold at retail from store owned
and operated by the buyer. The cream
is sold to ice cream manufacturers an(
brings Is cents per gallon. Nearly al
the dairy farmers have silos and alst
buy large quantities Of bran, some cot
ton seed and gluten meal. Price OF
bran ranges from $50 to s25 per ton
cotton seed meal. S2S; gluten, abou
S25. There is much complaint among
the farmers, as the price Of milk ant
cream is the same as it was when bral
was $12 per ton. A few have sold thei
cows and are feeding steers. Thi:
takes much less labor Many are nov