The Colfax chronicle., 1904-10-29
FARMER AND PLANTER.
DAIRYIyG IN THE SOUTH.
The Best Way For an Average Far.
mer to Build Up Profitable
Dairy Herd.

ooserai Gays ago Secretary Duggar
informed me that he had put me dowu
on this programme for an article on
now can the average farmer acquire q
profitable dairy herd. Now on this sub
]ect | can give only my own expert
ence. About foHr years ago a cream
cry opened in our county, and | was
then milking four cows, which gave
more milk and butter than my house
noiu could consume. decided to send
SURPLUS to the creamery, not that |
thought there was much money in it,
but more to further a home enterprise.
! soon found that the monthly pay
ihents we're very acceptable, and when,
In the fall of that year, l had made an
unusual large amount of forage, de-
decided that could better sell it to the
COWS than to put It on the market as
forage. Then the question was, how
can best get good cows? did not
want COW that would not test five
PET cent. butter fat. Whenever / heard
f a COW for sale, said to be good
one, went to see her miIked; bringing
away sample of milk, which / had
tested II she gave as much as II
pounds OF milk or more, which tested
the five per cent. butter fat, bought
ner, as this was equivalent to one
pound of butter day, and l consid-
cred her very good COW. At twenty
nye or thiry dollars, which was the
average price, l soon built up a herd
OF 10 cows, testing as a whole five or
sx-tenths per cent. bred these COWS
to the best thoroughbred Jersey bull
that could get, and now have quite
a number Of heifers which are very
promising, some giving as much as a
pound OF butter a day with their first
calves. ] am now milking 30 cows. OF
course as soon as I increased my herd,
was obliged to have a separator.
which ] found very necessary, partic-
ularly in feeding the calves the
skinned milk. The creamery, for lack
OF milk, failed, leaving me quite sum
invested in cows. separator, ETC., and
no prospect Of any return, except by
making my own butter. This / began
TO do, finding it difficult at first to sell
1t with any regularity at 20 cents. But
soon found that good butter would sell
itself. and l built up good trade at
"a cents in the summer and 25 cents
IN the winter. My cows are now in a
very dry pasture, but are giving me q
return OF SITE per month, with an out
lay Of $25 per month for grain. This |
does not count hay and forage raised |
on the farm. These grade cows prov
ing so profitable, / have decided to |
purchase some thoroughbreds, that I |
may derive more profit from the sale
uf my calves. With calves have been |
very successful, losing only one or two
IN my four years experience. 1t might
DO OF interest to give my method of
bringing them UP. let them stay with
Lneir mother one day. then feed them
whole milk ten days, then whole and
skinned millS>five days after that ON
skinned milk entirely. The winter
;alves keep in good warm stall.
ihe summer calves have the run of
he plantation, and on this treatment
hey seem to thrive. In the winter / I
'elI my male calves, at from ten to
.welve months old for beef, realizing
rom $S to $40 for them. The heifers
keep in good. thrifty condition, and
ry to have them come to pail by the
in1e they are 80 months old. con-
'ider my calves and the manure to
vlly pay me for my hired help, which
$ $12 month besides what do; and
he forage raise on the farm.
consider Georgia an ideal state
or dairying. We have a delightful
Inmate, enabling us to Craze the cows
he entire year. and can raise all the
God necessary for them on our farms.
Tow II the dairymen of the state of
few York can make money ON butter ,
{ IL cents per pound ON land worth ,
SO an acre, then why can not we, on ,
and at $40, and butter selling at % ,
ents per pound ?-W |. Harley. In ,
'outhern Cultivator.