Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-10-02
DAIRY and CREAMERY
TALKS BY An EXPERT

N. s. French, Berlin, In The Dakota
Farmer: With a big harvest on hand,
and help scarce, there Is danger that
on many Dakota larm the dairy end
Of the mixed farming proposition will
be neglected. This should not be
done, If possible to prevent it. Cows
that have been milked for eight or ten.
months and are due to calye again
this fall, may well be allowed rest
Of from two to four months; and right
here is a great big point In favor OF;
winter milking as 1t lessons the
amount OF dairy work through the
busy harvest season But COWS that
are fresh in spring or early summer
should surely be kept at it. All ex-
perience in dairying teaches one that
any diminution in the milk flow, how
ever slight, is very hard to regain.
Fl Fresh cut green corn is, perhaps,
the best, as we'll as the cheapest feed
with which to splice out the shorten
ing pastures Of the fall months. Bran,
If within reasonable distance, and at
a fair price, may also be fed with a
profit at the present price OF butterfat.
But they must have something.
Oats, speltz or barley, always ground
fine, may also be fed; or, If a field of
bronze grass has been cut for seed or
hay, arrange to turn the COWS on this
at least part Of the time. In hot
weather and when flies are bad, we
have always found night pasturing
very beneficial, but in early summer
the cows are generally better of In the
barn or in a dry yard than fighting
mosquitoes in the wet grass.
The weighing, or very careful meas.
sring OF the milk OF each individual
COW Is very important at this time, so
that the feed may be put where it via
do the most good. There are some
COWS in almost every herd that may
better be dried OF and fitted for the
butcher than MIXED. And in some
cases there may be whole herds that
viii bring more cash dead than alive,
supposing Of course, they are well fat
tened. In this all important matter,
the Dakota dairyman or any dairyman
must use Judgment, but he should not
jump at the conclusion that because
this COW, or this herd, does not pay
him for milking, that the whole dairy
business is a failure. Rather conclude
as did a French Canadian neighbor Of
mine. that hereafter .'he not MINK
ikeows dat hate no bags any more"
There are cows that have bags and
cows that pay.
Now We Have Hopes.
The papers state that the q. s.
department of agriculture, in con.
junction with the Iowa Agriculture.
college Is to essay the breeding and
raising of the dlal-purpose COW. And
why not, pray? Our grand old Uncle
has for some time been breeding and
distributing fish for his nephews and
nieces, and now We are told that he
is to raise perfect horse in Colorado,
SO why not show us the perfect cow
in Iowa as we'll. The plan is to de-
veaop the dairy capacity of the milk
ing Shorthorn. By this we might in
fer that there are some Shorthorns
that do not give milk, and this is too
true ito be a joke. Now In all candor,
this is a splendid plan and il honestly
carried out we shall expect grand re-
suits, though we grey heads may not
live to see them. The main trouble
with the full development of a breed
OF cattle or horses is that the life
time OF one man is all too short to
successfully carry 1t out. His idea
may be all right, but by the time this
ideal breeder gets old enough to know
something, he Is too old to do any
thing, and even IL other hands essay
TO bear along the work. they are al
most sure % fail to grasp the ideal
part Of it. s .s.s
Successful Breeding.
y Whenever nations or communities
essay to perfect and perpetuate a
breed or type Of animal life. they are
usually successful Sometimes this
has been done by legal enactments,
sometimes by a universal and COM
1nunal interest in the result. In either
case successive generations carry on
the work and we see a success, as in
the case Of the Arabian and the
percheron horse, or the Holstein and
Channel Island cattle. But Il our
nation Is 10 take up this grand work,
and Vt Is Indeed 8 great one, why con-
iine tAe Job entirely TO one breed.
Within the wribers recollection. the
breeders Of Hoasteln cattle have tried
samost as hard IL set rid Of their
beefy type q Gown 90 the Shorthorn
breeders have to ect rid Of their dairy