Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-22

morning shipments, he is reminded,
by the array of milk cans, Of some OF
the noted points in Illinois, Ohio and
New York, where shipping milk to
nearby cities has for years been re-
garded as most profitable industry.
At Roseland, Louisiana-another
Northern colony of several hundred
people-quite number of farmers
have found it profitable to keep few
COWS, the milk from which is shipped
daily to the city OF New Orleans.
Question No.3. What price is paid
for milk delivered at the sttttaona
The price varies at different sea-
sons of the year. A fair average price
Is about thirteen MS p gallon, and
what is said Of prices Of milk shipped
to New Orleans i, practically true Of
Memphis aid Louisville.
Question No. 4. What feed Is most
popular an the ,South!s
In addition to the native grasses
that are abundant everywhere, we
lind, especially at Hammond, that
oairymen are using a combination of
cotton seed hulls, cotton seed meal
and coin, in about equal parts, at a
COST of about eight to ten cents per
day for each COW.
Prof. Moore, of the Mississippi Ag-
ricultural has publ shed the follow
ing concerning wiuter dairying in the
South, and the feeding of c,ws for
SEVERAL weeks after calvirg:
winter dairyirg furnishes protita-
BILE employment at 81 ason of the
year when other work is not pressing
and dairy products nr,ng a higher
price. More time Can also be given to
the raising OF calves, aid less trouble
will be experienced from the heat,
sour milk, diarrheea and flies, than
during the summer, and the calves
can go from skim milk to good pas
lures when they are just old enough
to make the best use If them. The
feed and care of the cuw for the first
three months after calving will large
ly determine the amount of milk and
butter the COW will produce during
the year. At the time of calvipg the
CIV should be fed light, laxative
feeds, such as wheat bran and all the
hay aid water she wants. AS soon as
she has recovered from calving, the
feed should be gradually increased
until the full limit of profitable feed
ing is reached. We usually take from
two to three months to get the COW
on full rations. After the COW begins
to decrease in her flow of milk, the
ration should be reduced. In the
feeding of herd of dairy cows, the
Judgment Cf the feeder must always
play very important part, and the
best results will be secured by those
who change the ration to suit the
taste and rcquirments of the indlvid-
ual cow
Prof. A. NJ. Soule, of the Tennessee
Experiment Station, has published In
bulletin form, an article entitled
''The Relative Value of Protein and
Cotton Seed Meal, Cow-pea Hay and
VIII Bran" We quote from his ar.
ticle as follows:
Feeding the Dairy Cow would be
comparatively easy matter were ii
not for the difficulty experienced in
securing sufficient amount of pro-
tein to supply the heavy demands
made on her system in the production
OF milk. Cheap and abundant fodder
crops can be grown with comparative
ease, to supply the more bulky part
of her ration; but the protein needed
is much harder to provide in desir.
able form, at price within the reach
OF the average dairyman. The abund.
ance of cotton seed meal in the South
should offer happy solution to the
difficulty, but there are many places
where freight rates make cotton seed
meal quite as expensive as in the
states of the far Northwest; and then
it frequently happens that the dairy
man does not see his way clear to pay
out large amount Of money for cot
ton seed meal. for, as the old axiom
puts it, "a dollar saved is dollar
made So it is to his interest to dis
cover If possible, a means by which
he can produse the needed protein on
his own farm and thus save the heavy
drain on his resources required by the
purchase Of cotton seed meal or some
other concentrate rich in protein.
I'm the sections where cotton seed
merl is particularly abundant and so
comparatively cheap, the present In.
vestigation may seem to have but
slight application, but the reader
must remember that the best results
Ia feed ng dairy c,ws comes from a
com bination Ct Concentrates, rather
than from the exclusive use of one.
no matter how rich that may be in
the elements most needed for the eco
om!cproduction Of milk. Cotton seed
meal has now been fed long enough
to establish its virtue as feed for
dairy cows, bAt it has also been shown
that 1T Is unwise to employ it exclu-
sively for that purpose, as it is SO rich
not only In protein but in fat and In
other constituents as we'll, that it has
tendency to produce various nervous
I0eraHgpmenfS NJ tho cou,. ,uc<.~