The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1905-08-10
Paper Prepared by e. c. Jacobs. of Wisconsin.

An cows give some milk and all make
some beef OF some kind when slaughter
ed. 30 ali are TO n certain extent duel
purpose cows. But TO be profitable.
they must have the function OF making
beef or the function OF giving milk de-
ycloped to such "A degree that they VIII
render n profit over the cost OF Keep
from one or h other.
The value OF the COW Will depend:
First. on her ability TO produce beef:
second, her ability to produce milk:
third, her ability TO perpetuate these
qualities I'm her offspring. although the
latter value viii often be a minus
quantity.
AS to the kind or breed OF cows To
keep every farmer should seriously
consider what kind OF a farmer ne In
or can be, and what ind Of n farm he
has: then he can intelligently deter
mine what kind OF cows will be best
Tor him TO keep.
He should consider that this In n
great dairy state. second In amoun OF
fairy products. and second to none In
natural advantages: that with her
many cities and 1900 creameries and
cheese factories. n good market, for the
aatryman II available I'm nearly every
part OF the state: that a good dairy
COW Will always pay a profit IL intelli-
gently handled. and to those who are
not In a position to make a profit In
beef production. or who wish to make
the most profit possible per acre OF
land. the dairy COW Will especially COM
mcnd herself.
IL IL often urged that the average
farmer should have a COW that car give
milk probably and whose steers Will
make profitable beef animals.
n average production OF the cows
% about 40 pounds OF butter per year
per cow. VIII not the average COW OF
the average farmer fail TO make any
profit in butter production7 Observa-
zion teaches us that there is no profit la
raising the steers from those cows.
IL II not better TO have a cow h a
can do one thing ut a profit than to
have one that can do two things at n
ioss7 The breeding or dairy COWS with
the milking function highly developed
and capable OF perpetuating that func-
tton I'm their offspring Is sufficiently DIFF
fzcuit without being handicapped by
trying 10 breed the opposite or beefng
temperament In the same animal.
AS all COWS produce offspring. so all
pend on purchasing them to renew their
herds. are breeders. And the same
laws govern their operations as applies
10 Che breeder OF pure bred cattle.
10 would be well for many OF us TO
investigate our breeding operations and
SEC n we are allowing improbable ows
90 perpetuate themselves. or II we are
failing 20 have the profitable ones re-
produce themselves with their good
qualities still farther enlarged.
In the Improvement In u herds VIII
usually come through the sire. his Sc
lection and care should be carefully
considered and ~ wisely done, this good
quality will run on for generations. and
win help increase the good effects OF
each succeeding sire I'm the herd.
1he beef men do not need to be eau
eIoned against introducing dairy blood
into their herds, but many seem TO
think Il r. right for the dairyman TO
select slres from n beef breed. especially
II from n socalled milking strain"
What an animal has not inherited. Il
cannot transmit. and "A COW may be a
Very profitable producer at the pail
and stnl not have inherited the milk
giving function strong enough TO trans
NH n TO her progeny with any degree
~ certainty. She transmits from her
blood and not from her udder.
% In selecting n sire Il In not enough
ahat he nave n dam that IL a profitable
producer OF dairy products. but he
sheuld be descended from n long lire OF
Jams tha were profitable producers.
and sires whose daughters were pro-
1uccrxL
So that In tracing back his blood lines
se shall always find them possessing
the dairy quality which we wish to per-
p~taate. And an animal that does not
aave his kind OF breeding is not worth
considering as a sire OF dairy cows ven
e he ha MIXED his dam and another