Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-08-04
Dairy Farming.

The following is taken from Sue
cessful Farming:
1t is safe to say every farmer who
keeps a herd of COWS. keeps them for
the profit there is in them and not
for pleasure. They intend to get all
the profits out of it possible in order
TO provide the comforts and nee
essaries of life for themselves and
families. In order to do this, it is
essential, first. that the COWS be good
ones-cows that will pay for their
feed n give a profit. The food Of
a COW, if bought at market prices,
would cost about $50 a year. A COW
that will yield ten pounds of milk a
day in ten months will yield 5000
pounds of milk. If it takes about
twenty pounds to make one pound of
butter, she will make $50 pounds If
butter, which sold at 20 cents a pound
VIII amount to $50.
A COW that gives 20 pounds of milk
a day will yield double the profit ami
may safely be kept. The fact is that
too many farmers are ignorant of
the real status of their herds and
Keep boarder cows.
Possessing the right kind of cows,
the next thing is care and feed. I
name these two things in their proper
order, as care comes before feed, es-
pecially in the winter season. Warm
or comfortable stables, well ventilat-
ed, with plenty of light, should be
furnished the cow. The pinched up
COW tina is given the strawstack or
fence corner to shelter in is rarely a
profitable COW.
Regularity in feeding, milking. etc,
is all important. A COW is a time
keeper-even if her owner is not. She
looks to be fed, watered and MIXED
at a certain hour each day. If her
owner feeds, waters and milks when It
is most convenient, it results in loss
TO him.
Kindness is all important in hand
ling the dairy cows. Never suffer
them to be driven out of a slow walk
when they are brought in to be milk
ed. Haste, hurry and excitement tend
to diminish the milk yield. Give a
kind word and a pat to each indivi-
dual COW Of your herd, for kind
ness pays a bigger profit in the COW
than any other domestic animal
Handle the cow so they will be fond
of you Observe the most successful
dairymen-you will find them fond
Of their COWS and can tell all their
good points. A COW gives her milk
to her calf through love and natural
affection, and often her calf is re-
moved. This affection will be trans
ferred to the attendant, provided she
is treated kindly and considerably.
A woman is generally the one TO
whom she shows more affection. be-
cause women as a rule treat the COW
as she ought to be treated.
We want to impress upon the farm
er the fact that care, comfortable
quarters, systematic attention, etc,
over-balance the mere question Of
food. Less is required for the COW
if she is given warm, dry quarters.
A certain amount of heal is required
to keep the system in good condition.
This heat is furnished by the food
she consumes. If this heat is sup
plemented by warm quarters the pro-
fit will be greater.
Ventilation may be supplied by d
chute coming near the floor and ex-
tending out above the roof, so as to
carry off all the foul air, and fresh
air admitted near the ceiling. Fresh
air is needed in the cowbarn and will
do much to prevent tuberculosis.
which originates in foul and impure
quarters.
Whatever DpODIa NAV think of vow