The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-19

ance of common sense to steer them
among their many advisers. In the
| baltimore sun We notice a long letter
| from a correspondent in reply 10 a
! letter from a farmer asking advice
about his COWS. He said that hf had
| 4 herd Of Jersey COWS ana il selling
milk in the city. and is discouraged.
/ The advice given him is to feed the
COWS on home grown protein feeds ana
/ to quit buying the concentrates. Al
/ falfa and COW peas are advised. To
| all Of which we give hearty assent.
| for We believe that it is perfectly prac-
| tlcable to grow on the farm all the
protein feed needed bv the dairyman.
We also agree with the writer that
the Jerseys are not the cows for
| man to keep whose interest is in sell
| ing milk in the city.
But the odd part Of the advice given
| is in thcsgetting and maintaining Of a
dairy herd The advice is given TO
sell the JERSEYS and buy car load
of range heifers that have dairy
form, and that have never been in 4
stable, such as the beef men class as
canners," that can be bought for
about SD each, and then keep them
in q bcdded Open lot, ana feet them
high, but let them take al the biz
yards, etc. Tell your critics that
nature never built barns for its anf-
mails Then the advice is given to
buy q full blooded Guernsey bull and
| treat fii1n the same way.
Nature never built barns. nor did
she build modern cows. Nature was
perfectly satisfied with an animal that
could feed calf Doubtless the dairy
man who takes such advice in regard
to the keeping of COWS will have 10
feed high if he gets anthing from
them. and the extra feed that Will be
needed to keep them warm Will cost Il
great deal more than good. Well Venti-
lated stables. OF course, Il good Judge
of COWS could select animals Of dairy
form from the grade ShorthOrns Of
the Western plains. but he would Do
= great deal better TO get grades Of Il
milk breed, for the animals on the
Western plains have not been bred for
dairy form, and if ii have, it is an
accident. and there ,a no certainty
that they Will give calves of Gairy
form. Then the advice TO use It
Gue1 nsey bull is not what ave would
advise for the milk seller. for we had
as soon have the Jerseys for that pur-
pose. 1t would be far better to get
grade Observation-Disclosures and then use
4 full -blOOded HOlSteln-FrieSian bull,
and then provide the best of sunny
and we'll ventilated stables for pine
boards, though now cOStlv are far
cheaper than feed to keep COWS COM
fOrta BILE. The modern dairy COW is
the result of long breeding and the
best of care. and the man Who expects
to make money in dairyng With range
cattle in open lots Will usually find
chat he has saved at the spieot and
! wasted at the bunGhole. While dark
and unventilated stables are breeding
, places for tuberculosis, good, light and
we'll ventilated stables are better safe
guards than omen lots in OL' climate,
and for profit in milk selling one
should have a milk breed that has
been bred for that special purpose.
rather than a butter breed. Nature
does not build barns for her cattle,
and she often fails to give some peo-
; pie common sense.
correspondent thinks we hit the
: nail or the head in what we recently
, said about the paw generally offered
for farm mana gers. In of the
daily papers a city business man re-
, Gently stated that he paid the man who
: runs his automobile 81 500 wear, and
it is very probable that the same man
, if he was looking for a skilled farm
manager, would expect to get one for
about $40 a month, ana would then
expect him to throw in a wife to
managethe poultry or to make his but
ter. and he would get about what he
paid for and then wonder at the IN
capacity OF farm managers. The low
value set generally on the services
of farmers is one of the relics Of the
old notion that any uneducated man
could be a farmer. With the spread
. of education and the training of skill
ed men in the colleges there is certain
, to come about a better appreciation
of the value of a real farmer. MANY
wears ago the Board of Trustees of one
of the Agricultural Colleges elect
, ing a new president. One of the mem
5 bers urged the election of certain
man because he was not only an edu-
Gated man, but had made reputation
as a farmer. The Governor OF the
State. who was in the chair eN-ofnclo-
said: What do we want with ldi
! mer at the head Of the college:
can hire all the farmers | want Tor
$50 a month" The other gentleman
! retorted Then why do we have an
agricultural college, if we are to teach
: the young men that they can oniH
: command the wages of held dafheS
2 after they graduate?' But since tieh
, matters have changed, and that same
college is doing all that it can for tne
t | training of the young men in praftl-
e cal farming, and educating them' :,
r the sciences appertalning thereto, ahu
S people everywhere are finding out lad'
: a farmer needs a broader education
t | than one in any other profession III
the country, and the real farm man
1 ager will be soon taking his proper
2 nlace and be rewarded accordingly &c
!, his worth.
The time is now here when farmers
are considering their spring planting
and there is no one thing that we gel
: more queries about than the kind and
> quantity of fertilizers TO use for the
| various crops One of the results OF
> the constant Investigations Of the Sta
| tionS on the manurial requirements
of the various crops has been TO cause
| farmers to imagine that for every crop
e planted they must have a special ferti-
/ | lizer formula and they have gotten to
r depending upon fertilizers merely
n n a
: for wears tried to com bat
e this notion. and we fuliN
y agree with the statement in one OF the
: bulletins issued years back by the ONO
Station, on the maintenance Of fer
itility In this bulletin the following
statements occur: ''At the present