The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-12
IMPROVE THE COW.
Great Front for Dairymen TO he Won by
Intelligent Breeding.

To THE EDITOR OF THB sUN-Sr! The
IS ,OoO, 900 mlch COWS of this country find their
product virtually consumed at home. leaving
little for expectation. Yet few dairy farmers
get rich. Perhaps II is upon the principle
that few In any given business get rich.
All agricultural profit In these days comes
OF using improved methods and machinery
The farmer who still moved his meadow
land with q scythe would be left far behind
In the competition Of these days. The cow
IL the first item. and a most important one In
dairy machinery. At the average she Is a
GOOD deal what she was nifty 70 num-
dred years ago. as far as relates TO her dairy
functions. In beef producing quality the
case 10 entirely different. In place OF the
angular and active Texan COW and her on
spring, the Texas steer" Of the ranges. we
now have. by grading up from those native
herds with Short Horn. Hereford and Polled
Angus bulls, great droves OF ranch cattle
scarcely distinguishable from their thorough
bred sires. They are bred with an eye single
to their beef points. and are wonderful I'M
provement on the foundation range stock from
which they were graded up. Not so with the
dairy stock OF the country. The good mixer
has not been persistently. bred to the son OF
a good mixer. The eye does not take In the
situation with dairy po nts as with beef. Be-
s so hs da hs %
possibilities OF breeding for direct Improve
ment Of the dairy capacity Of his COWS In
dependent OF other considerations.
1t has been his crotchet TO try 10 DO Two
things at once by using dual purpose coy.
GO could ia" set ss5 or Se
realizing that In putting up for any length
Of time, with an inferior mixer foT such !,
tSw ssIP a pound of butter ''f an ounce Oh
According to the statistics of the Depart
ment of Agriculture the average dairy COW
Of the country gives 49, pounds OF o naw per
h on en int jersey fae team OF
head 'H in sixty days, Admitting that better
ton there Yet remains a very. wide msrgi19
that can only be credited TO the funotional
capacity of the cows bred In their bone: M hnn
oughbred herds possessing these great dairy
values, letting the beef question and all side
S te
Nearly IL 600 900 COWS are devoted to butter
uot in round numbers is / 500. 600 900 pounds
OF butter. worth. at is cents pound. 800
nr6Sase he hss eaf by
Jersey buli, and the Improvement In butter
capacity for the new generation Yves even
esoeed H Is sP%s cent? esmse ? the o
butter, output for a single year. assuming 2
that the price was not Lowered; would n1a. BE be
income due solely to the use Of improved
Only In recent years has the disparity in
value between the, product OF different In
dividual cows been brought home to the com
prehension OF the average farmer and dairy
man. Butter fat is the most valuable CON
stituent Of milk whether II be made into but
ter or used Otherwise The SIeamsfhiss buy 1ry
the SKINNED remnant. Quarts no longer
measure at the creameries and factories
the dairy farmer is paid. The change to this
plan was an eye-opener to him. He QUICKLY
found that his heaviest milker was not neoes-
sarily his most profitable COW. A machine
for quickly determining. the percentage OF
rat in. milk Is now used evsrywhsre: The
Is and Is beginning to look for different COW
from that which formerly excited his ad-
mlration.
The great step now in the improvement
the bulls from the Thoroughbred herds OF
Jersey, Guernsey; Holsteini Brown swi .s
districts, as the beef raisers have been takin Q
them from thoroughbred Short Horn, Here
ford and Polled Angus herds to the grain
districts HARK CoMsTocK-
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