Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-01-25
DAIRY NOTES.

and besides, the best part or the man
ure will drain off through these cracks
be lost. Take out the old floor,
or put on another thickness. A still
better plan is TO get along the best
you can this winter and put
in q cement floor next spring.
You will be surprised how cheap
ly you can lay cement, and one
hinlself. This cement question is well
worth looking UP. There are many
places about the farm where it can be
: used to good advantage, and the nice
thing about it is when once well put
down cement will last many years.
Once in a while you will find a good
dairy GOV among the beef herds. Such
ly by breeders doing the right thing.
These chance cows have been fed in a
way that would naturally produce milk
n although of the big body beef type,
they really have never formed beef
habits. l 10 not believe that q COW of
this stamp is as safe as the dairy type
cow for breeding up a dairy herd. The
process OF herd building is pretty slow,
and one cannot afford TO make any mis-
steps, The best thing to do is to study
until you know precisely what you
want AID then go after ii.
Every dairyman and every man who
mas the dairy bee in his bonnet" should
read Secretary Wilson'S annual report.
Here is jTHt one of the things he says
about dairYing: "One-fourth Of the
dairy cow Of the country do not pay
for their feed, and more than half of
them do not return any profits. In pro-
portion as the dairyman weighs the
milk Of each COW and applies the Bah
cock test will he increase the supply
of milk, butter and cheese"
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The small dairy herd, we'll bred and
well managed will show more clean
profit han the big herd slovenly kept.
Fifteen or twenty cars can be taken
care of, without hired help, and If n
is doing his own work he will readily
see the importance of keeping only good
cows and giving them right care. The
small dairy farm has come to stay. The
thing to do now is to increase the work.
ing value of every COW in the dairy
herd.
The writer saw as nice a bunch
of coming yearling heifers In
as he has u across in
a long time. They were bred along
milk lines n they had been fed a
little grain daily all the way from
calfhood. They were not fat, but
growthy, loose skin and every one had
the dairy form. 1t pays to keep the
calves growing.
A correspondent says: Your advice
about building up a dairy herd is all
right, but we have so many bull calves
that the work is awfully slow" That
is one of the unlucky things in breed
ing dairy cattle, they won bring heif-
ers every time. For this reason every
heifer calf should be a jewel. take care
of her md sinpra1S ca her tribe a. ia St a
possible.
There are two ways of finding out
what each COW is doing, one is by test
ing and the other is by churning the
cream from each one separately. Right
here Is the starting point in building
up a dairy herd, for, until you know the
value Of each animal, as a cream pro-
Queer, you do not know which ones
should raise the dairy calves.
Mrs. House says: Bring up the dairy
COW from calfhood. Select your best
calves, give them the best of treatment
at all times and train them to be milk
ers. Don't take the calf from the cow
too soon, but let it get a good start,
n then treat it with kindness. Always
warm the milk fed to calves and be
sure 1t is clean M fresh"
II Stills mat L can I get away from
the mi'k-pork combination. With mice,
fresh 'nilk mixed with bran and mid
lings Tor the pigs and fed TO the older
hogs with corn, how profits do pile
up! \ have never, yet, seen a man
who failed on this. proposition. He
simply can't If he will just feed his
milk and grain right.
The gutter behind COWS confined in
stalls SHOULD be large enough to keep
the animals clean. In order to econo-
mize on space some dairy barns are
made with narrow cutters and shallow
standing room. Give the cows ample
room; put the cutters we'll back and
the COWS Will do their part In keep
ing tidy.
Dairying is not a good bushes for
the man who is away from home part
of the time, or the man who goes to
visit a neighbor and allows the nights
milking to go over until morning. You
simply can't make it pay as a side is
sue. 1t must be handled right or the
sooner you cut it out the better.
II you are keeping your cream in
the kitchen where 1T will absorb all the
odors from the cooking, or IL you are
keeping 1t In the cellar with the vege-
tables, or If you are keeping it in the
bedroom, or in the storage ROOM, better
move it. before you get a most strenu-
Gus kick from the creamery.
One always makes the best success
with things he likes doing. That is
the reason why some men are better
fat cattle feeders than they are dairy
men. They can haul out the corn,
throw 1t into the hunks. and the steers
can eat and grow fat. You can't feed
dairy cows that way.
Feed well the cows which are to
freshen next month II they are rather
thin feed some corn with fodder. and
a mixture Of bran and ground oats or
barley will give good results.
Mr.. Gurler says that a COW that pro-
duces only 200 pounds of butter yearly
just about pays for her keep. One that
will produce 400 pounds yearly pays for
board and care. n enough In addition
TO make her worth $500. The 200 pound
COW Is really not worth any thing.
Feeding of mich COWS must be done
with rare judgment. 1t is a pretty nice
thing to know just how much grain a
COW will consume with profit.
1t takes feed to make milk. The good
dairy cow will do her mart hut she