The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-21

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as also in the Island Of Jersey, in Great
Britain, in Austria, as well ais also in
far.olf Australia and New Zealand
1--WE get .,.;ht cents quart for our
milk, and sixty cents a quart for forty
per cent. cream.
For Jerseys our prices range from $50
to $500, and our best bulls, which are
not for sale at any price, we value at
from $4,000 to $4,000 each,
For Berkshires the general prices
range from $40 to $500. We priced our
champion boar last year at $4,000
Until 1902 | gave little thought as
to whether the farm proposition was
remlmerative or not. In that year, how.
ever, | resolved that Hood farm must
now be made to pay. The result has
been that for the years 1904, 1905 and
1906, the figures have been on the right
side OF the balance sheet, and show a
good profit
From a material standpoint this
seems to be about all there is TO indi.
cate my success as farmer.
But there is another, and | think a
very much more important considera-
ton, one which gives me the keenest
satisfaction and which is source Of
continual encouragement to everyone as
ISOLATED with me in the management Of
Hood farm and in the development Of
our favorite breeds
Il refer to the fact land / can say
it without egotisml that Hood farm has
been a mbst important factor in inn
proving the quality and raising the
standard Of the Jersey breed of cows
throughout the country.
I'VE know beyond any possibility OF
doubt that the expense and the labor
and the thought that have been devoted
to the development of the Jersey COW
at Hood farm have contributed very
largely to the Improvement Of the dairy
COW Of America. | can truly say this
gives me far greater satisfaction than
could derive from any money return
Let me briefly refer to a few Of the
facts which form the basis Of the salts.
faction which we call our greatest recon-
pense from Hood farm;
ITO breed the bull and furnish the
COW that won the championships and
grand championships at the st. Louis
exposition in 1904, probably the great.
est dairy exhibition and competition ever
held In the world;
ITO breed eight heifer calves that sold
at auction for over $4,000;
ITO breed a COW that sold for 1900 :.
ITO stand at the head OF the list in
cows entered in the Register of Merit
Of the American Jersey Cattle club;
ITO win at the great state fairs Of
New York, Michigan. Indiana. Ohio, Ken
lucky. Illinois and Missouri in the years
1901 SO, more than coo ribbons, prizes,
cups. medals, etc;
TO breed three of the % cows, almost
one-eighth OF the whole number, in the
great 100 days test at st. Louis;
These are some OF the facts that es.
tablish the phenomenal success Of Hood
farm as breeding institution.
Two Of our cows in the st. Louis
contest exceeded in theirsFeturn produc-
tion the records Of the winners. Brown
Bessie and Merry Maiden, in the Chicago
contest eleven years before, which clear
" shows that We have been breeding
APP all the while.
I'm the Berkshire department, at the
peted with men who had devoted their
lives TO the breeding and development
Of the Berkshire hog Hood farm was
the second largest winner, actually beat.
ing, with only one exception, every one
Of those experienced breeders in the
south and west
AT times the competition took the
phase Of being the entire west against
Hood farm.
You may be interested to know what
profit in dollars and cents IL is possible
TO derive from single cow
"TOnona 9th of Hood farm is Jersey
COW bred and raised at Hood farm She
was born October %, 1900 On january
Is, 1908, when little less than two
years and three months old, she dropped
her first calf, aud during the subsequent
year MIXED, under the rules OF the au-
thenticated test Of the American Jer-
sey Cattle club. s033 pounds and II
ounces Of milk. testing 532 pounds and
ounces Of butter, tins winning the
championship Of the breed for authenti-
Gated test for one year Of heifer with
first calf
I'm the four years that she has been
in milk she has given an aggregate Of
20,2sG pounds Of milk, which at eight
cents a quart yielded 81 ,05072
"In this time she has had four calves,
one Of Which died. The. three that lived
sold for $3.50, Sl.075 and $l00 respec.
lively, making total Of $l725 The
COW herself was sold this summer for
$500.
"Thus the aggregate received from
this COW. her product and her progeny,
was s627G Taking from this the prob.
able expense of her living and care for
the five years and ten months that we
owned her, and which might be esti-
mated literally at 1902, we have net
profit on this COW OF S5,S74
"0f course, these are not everyday
! figures, bnt they represent an actual
result attained az Hood farm.
= do not wish the young men here
to get the idea that what ! am telling
you abost Hood farm has been accom-
plished by any streak Of luck, On the
contrary. our success has been attained
only by persistent hard work, by close
application 81 thought, by studying the
latest methods by constant experiment
and by thc greatest patience
There have been many disappoint
mcnts and discourogemonts, but the obs
stacles have been overcome, and similar
results may be achieved by any young
men who will patiently and persistcntly
put in the necessary study and labor.
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