The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-08-01
STUDY EACH COW.

STUDY EACH COW.
Not all the good milkers are found
among any one breed of cows; and the
sooner we make up our minds that
each COW has an individuality the
quicker will W. build up a dairy herd.
We must at the start recognize this in
~dividuality or else best results will not
be had. The proper handling and
feeding of one COW does not always
produce as good results with the one
andln next to her, and for this rea-
son every dairy herd should be handled
as if there Were only COW in the herd.
Many will say that this is not practical,
but it is the only system that will show
where losses as well as profits are be-
ing made. The notion that the same
ration may be dealt out daily to each.
COW in the herd must be gotten rid of.
That is too much like the feeding Of
rat stock, when grain and forage Is
piled before the animals and they help
themselves.
If one man attends to the feeding OF
the cows. If he is a capable feeder, he
will soon discover the likes and dis
every one at her best. 1t is a bad
policy to force cows to eat whatever
you may happen to have to feed them.
DAIRY NOTES.
If you have one good dairy COW in
Your herd, study her type. There are
certain characteristics about her that
there are poor mixers even among the
dairy herds, but he dairy type usually
produces the goods.
When visiting some twenty farmers
herds, where dairying was carried on
with other farm operations, I found
carelessness in handling the milk in
nearly every case. At nine places it
was more than n hour between the
time the milk was drawn and when it
was strained and cooled.
Some think that one COW will make
just as good butter as another, under
like conditions. / do not believe that I
have seen cows whose milk was hardly
~churnable, n whose butter could not
be- made firm.
I asked a farmers wife. who has be-
come noted for her splendid butter,
where she learned to produce such a
ane article. Simply by reading, ex-
2erlmenting and keeping my eyes and
ears wide Open" said she. After all,
that is q pretty good school. 1t is a
pretty nice art to care for milk, churn
when the cream is just right, and work
and salt just right.
Milk cans must be well dried after
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rust quickly. 1t does not pay to mend
cans eaten through with rust. The
best thing to do Is to keep the cans
from rusting.
The $50 pound dairy COW must go.
She may not be worth much, but she
is worth more for beef than she is for
butter. What we want now is more
of the 400 pound kind.
Shredded corn fodder Is as good as
timothy hay for feeding all kinds of
stock. For mich cows it is not nearly
so good as corn silage.
Don't expect the COW giving four
gallons Of milk to do her work on the
same amount of feed as the cow giving
two gallons.
Save the heifer calves of your best
cows, and the first thing to do is tc
find out which is your best cowA
A correspondent asks what to dc
with a COW that is hard to milk. There
is not much that can be done. Some
times plugs are used, but IL these re-
main In the teats for any great length
Of time inflammation is liable to set in.
Numerous accidents nave been re-
ported from the small pieces Of baline
Wire which are clipped off, falling ir
the hay where a COW gets hold of it
1t is a mean thing to lodge inside Of
any animal.
There is no reason why dairy butter
should not sell at as high a price al
creamery butter. The only reason Il
does not is because the cream is no
properly cared for and handled right.
If the COWS are falling off give then
a bunch of fresh clover or oats ant
peas, when they come in at night. Anc
don't neglect the water supply.
on account Of close, badly ventilated
stables dairy cows suffer from Giseas,
/. more than other cattle. ]. is importan
that disinfectanats such as carboli
: acid and whitewash be used withou
s'int.. a good system of ventilation
I will do wonders in keeping up the ton,
of the herd.
s h writer was shown a bunch O
sour milk calves a. few days ago. an,
) Fhad to admit they looked flrst-rate
tF3rhe milk fed these calves vas crean1e,
pans, and the SWIMMING was care
dome Of oor1rSc tho San~o$ n