Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-01-29
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The Dairy Cow as the Greatest Money
Maker.

cultural station, spoke briefly on
live stock. particularly on dairying.
As there is little at present in sight
on the Idaho Irrigation project for
dairying, his address was not of a
great length though excellent in quail
ity. He said in part:
The farmer in Irrigated Idaho
can sell his alfalfa and make it pay,
but if he were. to feed it, his profits
could be doubled, or trebled. Dairy
centers are proverbially high-priced
In Europe. in Denmark particularly,
land is worth $500 to 800 an acre
we it is farmed with profit by the
expert dairyman. The dairyman need
not worry about how high-priced his
land is-he can make it pay
The dairy COW will pay
more for a given amount of food
than any other animal. She leaves
more on the farm as we'll, in that her
products are so highly concentrated.
The COW is a machine, and the OBJ
ject of all machinists is to get the
largest products from the least out
lay The dairy COW is the highest
quality of a machine.
There are two types of cattle
the beef and the dairy. The beef
breeds have been bred for cenuries
for the production of the most choice
beef from a given quantity of feed
tn dairy breeds are specialized for
milk and butter. You must know
which you want, before you start in
on cattle breeding. There are four
recognized great breeds of dairy cat
tle-the Holstein, the Jersey, the
Guernsey and he Ayrshire. Any of
these would be good. depending
largely upon the individual choice
of the dairyman.
Shall l buy pure breeds to start
a dairy herd? If you have the mon
ey it is just as well to do so; if
lacking funds, start with as good
herd of well graded cows as you can
get, all of uniform type-but spare
no pains or money to get the best
pure bred sire you can find. If you
can, join with a neighbor, and own
a better one. 1t is a wonderful help
in any neighborhood to agree on a
type of dairy cattle and
then buy pure-bred sires that will de-
velop a uniform breed in the local
1t saves much money
as well as establishing a local repu
tation for uniform products, and in
creases the market value of every
pound of butter or cheese you have
to sell.
What are the profits of dairying? |
Anywhere from a failure up for
tune, depending on the man, ana
he cow A proper dairy COW should /
give 800 pounds of butter fat year /
"a poor one may not give One-half /
hat Testing the COWS is as essen /
-ial as knowing what ones pay. |
There are various by-products of the /
larry, which are worth while. The |
skim milk is valuable for feeding
o chickens or pigs; it has value
If from IS Gems to 81 per 100 pound.
And the calves are of course valua-
ne.
Where can I get good cows to
tart a herd? All over Idaho there
S the urgent need for more dairy
PRODUCTS in the state; Idaho does not
produce one-half enough butter to
upply her own markets. We are
nearer the great coast markets,
han the state that now supply us.
)airying takes away only a small
of farm fertility compar-
ID with othr lines of produce; a
airy that sells $50 worth a year,
ellis no more of real farm necessar-
es that the farmer who sells S26
iorth of wheat Dairying means to
lake money from the farm, and yet
0 increase the fertility of it. every
ear.
1T is important to have cows
resh in the fall, so as to make but
or through the winter when there is
lore time to care for them, and
hen he product is the highest
rice Then when the spring grass
1mes, it acts as a tonic, and revives
lie milk flow, giving a much better
roduct for the entire year"
In the evening, Mr. Mcpherson
ave his finely illustrated stereopti-
IN lecture on plant growth, which
as attended by all who could pos
bly, crowd into the house. 1t was
tensely interesting, and contained
any valuable illustrations and sug )
some of which will be Civ ,
in a subsequent issue of the Jour- {
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Disease Scents.