Graham guardian., 1908-04-10
AIRDRANCES IN DAlRYIRG
Disregard Of Well Settled PTinci-
Piles in Breeding, Feeding and
Care

strange that dairymen did not run
even, did not attain similar results,
when all have access to the best IN
formation and markets. The re
ply was: "Look at family OF
boys in after life, They sometimes
scale all the way from the pulpit
to the penitentiary. They had a
con mon fund to draw from. Why
the difference?" Men in some way
cannot absorb and apply wisdom
alike, whatever the purpose. This
is especially true in dairyiug. |
note the recent returns of an all
the year round creamery. The
best mans dairy put up showing
of 266 pounds of fat that brought
$40 COW. Another patrons dairy
showed up with $3.50 a COW for
tat, a difference of about 500 a COW.
Why was this? Both dairies had
to be fed and MIXED for S65 days.
The difference is this: One man
looks at the farm end of dairylng
10 secure profit from his dairy;
breeds, feeds and cares for the COWS
along the best lines OF dairy
thought, The other man looks for
big prices to make dairyiDg pay,
and blames the markets, the trusts
and the consumer tor his "bad
luck" The farmer who gives eight
points of attention to his dairy and
two to the market is the money
maker. The other economies IN
cows, feed aud care, and buys the
ehes pest feeds when he must buy.
The one wants the best cows aud
the best feeds, and ls liberal. and
the result IL ITO HIM that hath
shall more be given, but from the
other is taken away, even the little
that he hath"
lam wondering if there is not a
reason for this visible failure by
80 many TO attain even an average
in results. Has there not been,
and even now is, loose stating OF
dairy doctrine, a sort of mix up Of
likes and conditions, in dairyinS
and general stock mixing; catch
as-catch.can affair, u mixing OF
breeds to get the general purpose
COW, neglect to provide gener,
ous and we'll considered ration and
n lack of care that is begotten OF
the old idea of toughening COW
in winter to make her calves Wig,
orops feedersl failing 70 reallSe
that II COW is a mother; that dairy
ing IS a CONNER of this cows
motherhood, that da,ry'ug Is an
artificial exaction, and cannot be
carried on TO full success by ma
ture programmed Nature breeds
along unmixed lines, Species are
never crossed, and families OF
breeds are always families. Ma
ture has set standard OF types,
and kAans them. It's in feeding
go -
apd housing that nature fails; ana
here is mans opportunity. Nature
has a feast and famine. Good
da,rying is a feast of balanced good
thin Is all the time, an all the year
round June to the COW; and here is
the lesson: Selection, in breeding
only from the best, following tho
best standards OF liberal feeding.
not pampering; giving the bost OF
care to COW and product, and you
have the secret Of the profit end OF
dairyipg,
There is too much scouting OF
special dairy breeds, types and
forms. It's as well TO say that
there is no type and form in run
ming horses, as that there is no
like expression in dairy breads. A
draft horse may run forty rods at
a great pace, but be never runs a
mile in lao or even 2 minutes,
Animals that are the best 10 their
respective classes become so be-
cause Of functional force th at has
fashioned form to meet its pur-
pose best. Color does not seem to
enter into the scheme, but nerve
force does in certain lines and lynn
phatic temperament in others.
= Speed and milk are exhibited in
nerve temperament and beef and
strength in the other. One con-
tends that mutton bred sheep is
a great yielder of milk for her
young, a seeming refutation OF the
statement of temperaments. Why
not mention the breeds of milking
goats-strong in angular, dairy
t6rm-that give many times more
milk than sheep and about as much
dual purpose cows.
There is someting parallel to al
this when farmers buy feed, bui
there is, after all, u great cbangt
for the better going on, Yet l so'
men every now aud then buyint
cornmeal, bomIny, and even we
beet pulp for COW feed, each anC
oil of them heavily charged will
starch, material they already
have enough of in their silage, hay
and their own home raised corn
1 To buy these is simply addinI
more fuel to an already well tex
furnace. What is wanted Is tn
proteips IN the concentrates, an'
and to feed less pounds, and wit
bulky food. Of course these car
bos carry much beat aud energy
a hut why buy what you alread.