Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-06
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
Items Of Interest for the Farmer and H.rust Who Believes
In Progress and Improvement.

ed milk business as it is not posi-
Bile to make good quality of con-
densed milk where noxious weeds /
grow in the pastures or in the hay.
1t like wise exercises great influ-
ence in the quality of butter and
probably of cheese.
The very high amount of forage
per acreof both meadow and pas
ture makes it possible to carry at
least COW to the acre a whole
year, TINS man owning a forty
acre farm may devote thirty acres
of it to the maintainance of thirty
cows if properly Termed, and,
when these COWS produce from six
to ten dollars month apiece you
may reaile figure the possibilities
of forty acre farm.
Thus to the dairyman Idaho Of
fers opportunities rarely it ever
found in any other state in the
union.
l shall now turn my thoughts
briefly to the cow. We have found
that the climate including the tenn
perature and humidity, the forage
and 1.-THE pastures, the absence of
noxious weeds, the absence OF in
sect pests, the long season of sue
culent feed, all unite to make the
ideal home for the dairy COW.
Now let us consider the animal
best adapted to these conditions.
believe that it is possible on ac-
count of the excellence, abundance
and cheapness of the forage to OBJ
tain the very highest results with
out grain or other concentrated food
but should we feel called upon to
use these concentrates we know
that, owing to the other very favor
able conditions, that if used, they
, will reach their highest efficiency.
! In view of the above facts it is
incumbent uon us to find the COW
that will utilize this excellent for
age and give 1t the highest possible
efficiency in the production OF but
ter milk and cheese.
| am not going to advocate the
throwing aside of our herds indis'
criminately and seeking high grade
or pure bred dairy cattle at grea
cost, bu do most earnestly advoc
ate thee areful testing of every GOV
. with the scales and the Babcocl
: test and il she is found to be un
, profitable promptly to fatten her am
turn her over to the bucher and re
. ducc the herd rather than to kee'
an Improbable COW for the sim
4 pie sake of adding to the numbers
n l dare say that about thirty pc
4 cent of the COWS being MIXED /
this country do not pay for the time
= feed and trouble. We should sele1
p carefully and keep the best milkei
: and their heller calves, always US
If ing a sire of well-known dair
~ characteristics and 1t let be pun
bred. whatever the breed desire
use Let me urge very strong
&c that the farmers of each commmul
: neigborhood or even county, try
,e agree upon the COW desired and bl
,r the sires of that breed only, wheth
- it be the milking Shorthorn, Il
,e Brown Swiss, the Red Polled, tn
is Jersey, Guernsey or Ayrshire.
IN For economical reasons it is We
" desirable, first, to exchange sire
IN second. il will induce the brcede
ne of pure breds to invest in the be
+ quality of the family and will 81
ga the community reputation
10 breeding certain kind of cattle SUI
VS. as will induce buyers from all par
ne of the counry to come to that par
10 cular locality for their cattle al
an will undoubtedly greatly adavnce t
ur price, because buyer can Well {
We ord to pay that much more rath
&c than seek his cattle in isolat
pieces.
on In one certain county in Wisco
SO sin, only "a miles square, $3.50, 0
o5 worth of dairy COWS and hcift
all have been shipped in one year, o
as ing. to the reputation the county
an for breeding this particular ore
an of cattle and using only pure bi
of sires In this same county the ;
erage butter yield per COW was
,al pounds greater than that OF the
m erage herd throughout the count
ter making net profit to each farr
be of not less than SIS per COW ow
ust to the community effort and the
is telligent breeding OF the cattle
ne. that locality.
the must not pass unnoticed the
ish cellent mar ket in Idaho for the S
In of the products of the dairy.
,nv average price in the Boise val