Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-08
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Increasing Capacity of Cows.

FroIeSsOr w. l.. Carlyle, in an ad-
dress to Wisconsin dairymen, said:
AFTER fifteen years Of study and OBJ
servation and five years of expert
mental investigation of the dairy ca
paclty OF cows representing practically
all the types of cows kept on the
farms OF this state, 1 am willing to
FISK my reputation on the statement
tnat there is not a healthy, normal
can dropped upon any of the farms
OF this state, of any breed, that will
not II properly reared, fed and cared
Tor from birth onward, produce at
least 800 pounds of butter in a year,
when at her best At the same time,
believe quite as firmly that there
are many dairy COWS bred for the
SPECIFIC purpose of milk and butter
production through many generations
that will produce 600 pounds of but
ter per year under most favorable
conditions as readily as some other
cows not having these inherited ten
dencies will produce three hundred
pounds. While 1 do not wish to ad-
vocate the breeding of anything but
the best of dairy cows, or to underes-
innate in any way the Importance of
inherited tendencies, yet am assured
from the results of our work at your
experiment Station at Madison, that
tnere are thousands of choice dairy
COWS in our state that are not re-
turning their owners a profit, for the
reason that they are not surrounded
with the proper environment, includ-
Ing suitable feed, shelter and manage
ment
OF the COWS purchased for our
of
know, only two or three have cost
above $65.00, and many of them much
less. They include COWS inheriting
beef tendencies, as well as those dairy
tendencies, and yet there is not a ma
ture COW in the herd, except a pure
bred Jersey or two. that has not pro-
ouced over 400 pounds of butter in
a year. The trouble with so many
or the dairy farmers in our state is
that they are accustomed to look upon
and think of a COW as a machine into
which II you put certain amount OF
raw material you will get a certain
amount of finished product, irrespec-
tive OF the fact that each and every
COW is an individual with certain Pc
cuIlar1t1eS and tastes that must be
studied and understood, and the most
suitable raw material supplied in the
matter of feed, not to mention the nu-
nerous other conditions, before the
individual COW will manu-
facture the finished product to the
best advantage
OF the fifty or more COWS that have
been in the Station herd in the past
i've years, the three cows producing
he greatest amount of butter in a
rear have belonged to three different |
'reeds and, while they had many OF |
he essential characteristics of large
larry producers in common, yet they |
Ill showed strongly the type of the |
'reed to which they belonged. The |
argest yearly record of butter pro-
luction Of any COW in the herd was
made by grade Red Poll; the second |
argest record by a pure bred Jersey,
md the third by grade Shorthorn.
The phenomenal production of these
ows- was made possible by a careful |
tudy to supply each one of them with
he kind of feed and environment that
vas best suited to the particular de-
nands of the Individual animal for
reatest production. If all three COWS
ad been given similar feed and treat
1ent in every way, there would have
cen wide difference in their pro-
uction and some of them would have
1elded much less milk and butter