The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-02
"A W0MAN'S FARM A Cheeringly Successful Fix. , pertinent in Cattle
 Raising. l --------------.------------- pSECRET OF THE TRIUMPH ltorcing Beef and Dairylng Make n ? Valuable Combina- t ton.
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Raising cattle for the market in the I East IS not generally considered pro ntaple venture but Mrs Kate r. Ramp declares that she has made q good living by It not only for herself and her three children but also for her in. valid mother and her grandmother Mrs. Ramp lives In West Virginia, and the farm on which she raises the cat tie is an inheritance or rather it will be should she outlve the two older { women whom she now supports,
 The secret of my success is settling my cattle young, never keep a cow intended for market after 1t is egh- teen months old" Mrs. Ramp de- 7 clared in telling her experience T !. couldn't afford It. my capital Is go J, small that l must have quick returns Y Do l mean veal when speak cf , selling cattle at eighteen months? Ch my no, l never sold a calf for veal in my life It would be rank extrav. agance from my point of view Th' cattle ship to market at from II to Is months old are both matured ana well fattened beef
 My land is productive enough, bu as l haven't very much the expens. of shipping, if l depended on the us 's ual farm products, would eat up all 'my profits. After my husbands death which left us all dependent on what could he made on this farm. worked i over the problem for some three months.
 ', One thing for which there Is al ways a demand and which knew could be easily shipped If could only raise 1t was beef cattle, So l decid cd that the solution of the problem ] lay in getting cows that could be fore. ,, ed to early maturity as beef and at the same time give reasonable quan tlty of milk and butter
 "lt didn't take mo long to decide against the scrub COW of Virginia and : the Jersey, One was all horns and the other all milk. After looking the ' different breeds over decided to try the Hereford, and fortunately l hit the ! nall on the head.
 T invested in five young cows, reg ; istered stock, as a beginner My success was sufficient with those five cows to warrant my increasing my herd to the limit of my acreage. By ! the sale of the cream and butter in the small town near which live each COW more than pays its own expenses so my beeves are clear profit.
 My methods are very simple and founded on the laws of nature. My cows are allowed to suckle their calves for the first four days. After the fourth day the calves are fed on fresh whole milk for from ten days to , two weeks.
 At the end of two weeks warm skinned milk should be substituted for whole milk Care should be taken to have the milk always sweet and i, warm, al a temperature of from 95 to ! 100 degrees Fahrenheit. or digestive troubles will be the result. If the calf Is large and healthy after 1t 1t is !, month old l increase its allowance of- ten.to as much as twelve quarts day. I ITO get the best results calves T should have milk until they are six months old but from the time the {. calf Is two weeks old small quantities ,i of grain should be added to its ra- |, tlons tp take the place of the fat talk {, en from the milk by the separator and ], to get the calf Into the habit of eat ! Ing other foods. For this purpose |, prefer 10 use corn meal or Kafir meal 1 because of It's cheapness and because : for my use 1t has proved in every way satisfactory. Other cattle ras- CTS tell me that oatmeal and lnseed meal are equally good, As they are more expensive and not among the products of my farm l have never tried either of them.
 As I now manage all my calves come in October. This Is because it has proved the best both for the cat tie and for my farming When calf Is born In October the five or six months during which lt must be fed on skinned milk come al season of the year when there Is no pastur- age At the end of that time the grass is beginning to show itself and the calf can he turned out with Il slight addition to its grain ration.
 During the second five months ifs food can he packed mp in the pasture Fwith the addition of an increasing jquantity of grain At the end of this ' tlme, the beginning of the third five ,months. the forcing period begins.
 During this fattening period it is necessary 10 force the cattle to eat tc the limit of their capacity, as the old CT they grow the more expensive the process of putting on flesh becomes When my calves reach this age In. per. feet health feed them dry fodder or enslage and grain without stint, and 'the day they attain the prime market condition they arc shipped
 This is wise not only because fl