The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-07-14

AAsseNA AAA0 PANNOCOu uVOu inc farm l01
beef; and, on the other hand, we hav
animals developed for the specific pu
pose Of making for us a machine wit
the ability to convert raw material
or the grains raised upon our farm,
into milk and butter.fat: and whe,
ever one of these breeds oversteps It
bounds and enters the field of the otl
er, then, from the standpoint of an e1
ficient and profitable machine. the
are at loss because the other ma
chine can do that work much more e1
ficiently and prof1tably.
The Dual Purpose Cow.
However, as indicated in the begin
ming, there is probably a place fol
the dual purpose COW, by which tern
we mean that COW that is capable q
producing some milk and butter-fa
and some kind of calf every year
There are many who are to be found
IN every business who cannot accom-
pl1sh to the same degree the results
OF others, and likewise there are many
breeders and feeders who, were they
to have the very best beef cattle that
could be raised, would not appreciate
them to the extent that they would
take the very best care of them, and
consequently they would degenerate
and dehGriorate from year to year.
so that In the end the results would
be far from f1attering, and it is with.
out doubt equally profitable for these
men to have an animal much inferior
to the very BEST And the likelihood
is that they can make almost as much
profit out of common animal as they
can out of an animal developed to
the very highest degree possible and
the same is true relative to the COW
that has to be MIXED upon the farm,
There are many who would milk COWS,
that have not studied the fundamental
principles of handling, caring for and
feeding the dairy COW and it would be
terrible hardship to the COW were
she compelled to withstand the care,
feed and management that she would
receive at the hands of these feeders,
because, as has been stated befor >.
she is more or less of an artificial be.
ing, and in order to do her best work
she must be subjected to the very
best methods of management, and for
this purpose likely the o. termed dual
purpose COW is to be Recommended.
She has been of wonderful service
n that she has been used as a stepping
stone from beef production u the pro.
1uction of milk and butter-fas If we
look to the history of every tOuntry
we will find that the different stages
of development are, first, grain farm.
ing, next grain and stock farming,
1ext stock farming, and finally stock
armlng and dairying. The man who |
las educated himself as a feeder of !
oeef cattle always finds that to feed |
or the production of milk is a rluch !
lifferent business. He must have diff
erent kinds of animals, keep them un-
Ter different kinds of shelter and feed
hem foods of different kinds and in
lifferent proportions, and on the whole
are for them entirely differently; and
we're this man to step Immediately
rom the feeding of beef cattle into the
eding and caring for the very high
st character of dairy cattle, he would
lot be pleased with the results as a
eeder of this second class of animals.
when he finds that there
re greater profits that are more GER
ain to be found in milk production,
be first step which he takes is to
'egin milking the cows that have
eretofore done nothing but produce
he calves that he has later sent to
larket; and as he feeds for a period
time these cows that produce for
i'm regularly hardly enough milk and
utter-fat to pay for their keep, he be-
ms to wonder if there are not other
lethods of feeding these same COWS
1at will better their production, and in
consequence, he learns from time to
me and from year to year of the bet
er methods or the ways of producing I
'om these same cows more milk and
utter fat and doing it more econom-
ally and profitably.
During this period that the change
as been coming about, he has learned
} properly care for the cow and now
re time is ripe for him to go into
he dairy business and to use the real
airy COW. 1t is somewhat like the
ustom of the small boy who must
de the wooden hobby horse first, later
le Shetland pony and finally he is
apable of riding and managing sue
assfully a real saddle horse. There
no doubt but that of all the horses
le saddle horse is the best, but it
ould be the height of folly to give
i'm to the boy at the period when
e should be riding wooden hobby
orse, or even at the time when he
lould be riding a Shetland pony.
Ihen the proper time comes he will
2 very successful in riding blooded
addle horse, and it would be the ut
ost folly for him to be trying to get
)me place on a wooden hobby horse
this time.
But, in it's place, the hobby horse
as been extremely valuable in that
has taught the first fundamental
'inciples Of riding, and so it is with