Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-06-26

majority Of the farmers are young or
middle aged men who want to make
all the money they can, and to them
i say: be a dairy farmer.
Question. Il see that they have In
vented milking machine and want
to know Il you know anything about
1t?
Answer. have understood that
they were experimenting with one in
Chicago, but / do not know much
about il. The best milking machine
that 1 know Of is the Scandinavian
and he is second to none. believe.
however. that we viii have milking
machines in time, but 1t will be a long
time before it can be constructed /
cheap enough for the small dairymam
to use them.
Now want to say just few words
about the kind Of cows to keep on
dairy farm. In the first place Won
Must Fave a good cow, one that is
adopted for dairy purposes. En- And
right here I want to tell you a little
story that I just happened to think of I
about the difference of cows. The
story runs: A farmer asked another
farmer what was the difference be-
tween a Jersey COW and a Holistien
COW. The farmer looked at him and
replied that il you put a nickel or any
fother small piece OF money in the bot q
tom of the milk pail and milk the COW
that if you can't see the money when
through milking it is Jersey, but lie
you can still see the nickel after milk
/ ing 1t is Holistien. va
| From one of the Audience. heard
that story in different way: That
you put the half dollar or what ever
money 1t is in the pail and milk the
COWS and If after milking the jersey
there is not milk enough to cover the
money it is sure sign that the COW
| is jersey.
/ have never heard that story. But !
nevertheless the Jersey cow is the
dairy COW, and when she is given good
care, fed right and kept in proper
place there is no COW can beat her
for dairy purposes. OF course Won
take Jersey COW and put her ont ON
the north side of a straw stack
against a cold wind or storm and don't
give her proper feed and attention she
won't do very WE'LL The great trouble
farmers don't take proper care Of their
COWS and for this reason they have
got to have a cow that can stand the
| wear and tear. These two things L
want to impress upon your minds, IN
the handling of COWS, and that is to
give COW good care, give her plenty
OF good food and if she is a good cog
she will give you good returns H
she don't let the beef trust have her.
Before pass over this point want
to question some of you farmers and
see if you are making the mistake
that good many of our farmers In
Minnesota have made who consider
themselves dairymen. y. ,ss VA
Over there there is one creamery
that has 63 patrons, so of which reside,
| within three miles of the creamery
and the other three not very far away.
The records show that during the.
last ten years these 60 farmers KENT
the same number of COWS but that
they produced only about one-haif as
much butter at the end of the 10 years
as when they started. They were an
good farmers and took care of their
cattle in the best manner possible
The highest make of butter per week
during the last year was 80 tubs while
the records show that when the cream
cry first opened they made SIS tubs,
which makes decrease of nearly one
half in ten days. The trouble is that
these farmers have not been building
up their herds and have not lad good
sires at the head of their herds. The
cows they had There ten years age
are not the cows they have today
They didn't seem to know what was
the matter until, finally, one of their
number went to work and sold off all
hi cattle and bought some good wen
bred dairy stock and found out what
the trouble was. They did not under
stand the question of building I'M
dairy herds and allowed their cattle to
be bred without paying any particular
attention as to whether the calf would
be good dairy COW or not. And SO
say get good stock to begin with ana
keep building up your herd by breed
ing your cattle to good stock %.
NOW want to say just few words
along another line and then if any OF
you have any question you want TO
ask I viii be pleased to answer them.
want to speak OF the benefits of the
creamery. You had about 50 cream
cries In your state last year we
have nearly 500 in the state of Mime