The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-07-10

evening, giving fair days time to
the other farm work. The boys get
to the barn at $40 in the morning
and all the work is done on schedule
time and in definite order. No farm
hand over objects to the daily work,
as the barn is clean, warm and we'll
lighted, and things arranged so
that the work may be done mos t
conveniently. In the evening it is
not added to the full days wor k
but made part of the regular days
work, and finished at 6 o'clock.
The COWS are turned out for a
short time every day when the
weather is at all pleasant, as they
are turned out each day for water on
the average farm.
The length of time they are left
out is determined by a rule that is
easy to remember, and important:
las long as a man would care to be
out without an overcoat, and not
working." The most common mistake
made by farmers in carrying for their
stock is in leaving mich cows out of
doors the greater part of the day in
winter. When a cow is uncomfort-
able from the cold or any other
cause she will produce but little
milk.
The record of the herd for the
past year(222 lbs. of butter per cow
is considered only fair. It was
lowered considerable by the number
of heifers in the herd but even then
it is unsatisfactory. No farmer
should be satisfied with COWS that
average less than 800 lbs. of butter
yearly, and it is our aim to breed up
a herd that will do even better than
this, and through ways that may be
followed by the average farmer. We
are now using a pure bred Guernsey
sire, and by keeping a record with
the invidual COWS the poorer ones
may be culled out, and heifers raised
from the better ones to replace them.
There is often a great difference
between COWS, even of the same
breed, and getting the same feed
and care. The only sure way
to determine the better COWS from
the poorer ones is by weighing the
milk and testing it. Weighing the
milk of each COW every day may
seem impractical but there is MOTH
ing on the farm that is more prac-
teal or of more value. It is a
business proposition. A farmer
who keeps a record with his herd
won't sell a COW for $50 or $40
that will make over $50 net profit
in single year, and on the other
hand he won't keep a COW very
many years that don't pay for her
feed.
A daily record will tell more
than that. 1t tells the comparative
value or milk producing quality
of different feeds. It will tell you
that it don't pay to leave the cows
out on a cold day, or to be irregu-
lar in feeding and milking them
And most of all it will give you an
interest in the work. Instead of
mere milking it becomes a bust
ness and gradually you will come
to see that dairying is the most
profitable work you can engage in
as farmer.
Dairy farmers the world over are
the most prosperous farmers, and
there is a reason for it. A dairy
COW is the most productive of all farm
animals. The common cow is cap
able of producing 5000 lbs. of milk
yearly or over two and one-half tons.
To one who has never kept a record
with COWS this may seem incredible
but this amount is only common.
Well bred dairy COWS produce 5000
lbs. of milk yearly on an average and
in exceptional cases cows have pro-
duced over twice this amount.
Aside from the productiveness of
the COW there is another reason why
dairy farmers are generally prosper
Gus. In raising grain from So to $12
worth of soil fertility is sold from
the farm in every ton of grain, but
when this grain is fed on the farm