The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-10

ing expert and in few minutes gave
his audience some startling pointers.
He said: Some COWS make much
more money than others. Cows
thought to be of equal dairy value
show great differences by milk test
ing records, ranging from $4,000 tc
$500 Without testing you cannc :
tell which COW is making mone.I.
One man reported that the old COW
from which he expected the least,
really paid the best dividends Weigh
and test the milk of each COW and you
will get accurate information. The
Babcock tester and scales will show
wonderful figures and will point out
the cows which lose you money"
Prof Van Pelt at Pennington, said,
I'VE learn more from the COW herself
than from books and papers" Speak
ing of feed and feed values, he would
build silos in preference to barns and
corn cribs, because there is no cheap
er feed than silage This was only in
tended to mean that the silo should
lie built when the farm could not at
the time afford to build both barn and
silo. In short, he said:
Every ton of timothy takes fer
tility out of the soil-clover and alf-
alta put fertility into the soil
The farmers put feed into animals
factories in the world
The farmers put feed into animals
which do not rturn a profit A COW
browsing around a timothy hay stack
has as much show as a bow-legged dog
OF catching an asbestos cat in
Where one weed grows, fifty spears
of grass should grow. Scatter clover
in your pasture-harrow it-and you
will pasture two cows were now you
pasture one.
Put your cows under proper con
ditions, give them c'ean water, pure
air, and the kind of feed out of which
milk is made. Sweet clover, the thing
you a'e trying to destroy by law. is
even better than clover
At Thereof hall in Donnellson, Prof.
Luck acted as chairman and started
off the meeting with story at the ex-
pense of "Pat."-Prof Patterson, of
Waterloo, who spoke on milk testing
and silo feeding, made the startling
statement that one-third of the Iowa
COWS We're not producing butter fat
equal to one-third the cost of feed.
Weed out the poor cows" he urged,
'.and we can increase the pay output"
He again urged milk weighing and
testing as a certain means to prof
liable end
At Inwood, a town in northern Iowa,
the public schools teach mix testing
and stock feeding. A boy pupil asked
his mother for permission to feed
the family COW accordin.; TO Ibis new
tangled notions" Reluctantly the re-
quest was granted and in one month
the milk supply was increased $500,
and the feed cost reduced S1.00, show
| ing the value of a balanced ration
Turning his attention TO silos. Prof
Patterson added:
''Silage is only canned corn 1t is
not balanced ration. but it balances
up ration Silage put UP right loses
only above five per cent. Grass is the
best feed, but next comes clover" Re-
sorting to comparison in feed values,
the speaker said, zone ton of alfalfa
| is equal to two tons Of clover.
"a barn costs money, but silo
stores feed at 9 less cost. Some fail
to put silage up right. 1t must be
4 tramped in so as to exclude air.
1 Tho TrirAnipo1 oh nnnnaN
son was Dr. Roberts, the Wisconsin
/ cattle specialist He discussed Bovine
/ tuberculosis and gave a careful plan
of testing cows for the UGH talked
/ about disease FIe said:
This test is such simple easy test
to apply that it would seem that al
most anyone would be able to use it
4 with perfect results, and when 1t IS
| applied as it sho"- be the results are
/ absolutely reliable In getting the
| cows ready to test it is wise to water
them about noon and house them.
! Permit them to stand about three
1 hours. At o'clock YOU can take the
( temperatures The normal tempera-
ture varies from 80 to .03 degrees
No animal with temp nature higher
than 103 should have tuberculin in.
/ jected You take three temperatures
| the first being taken at o'clock, then
one at o'clock and another at Z,
After the 7 o'clock temperature you
inject tuberculin by the use of the syr-
inge. using 2 c. c. of tuberculin for
the ordinary 1,00opound COW. After
the tuberculin is injected the herd
should be watered, and then they
1 should not be watered again until 2
/ O'CLOCK the following day unless they
1 can drink whenever they want to- The
following morning at O'Clock you
take temperatures then again at 8,
1C, IL and 9, al which time tho test
\ is finished After the test is finished,
1 ii there is an abnormal rising of tenn
+ perature over the temperatures of tae
+ first day your herd should be divided
into three classes-healthy, suspicious
/ and condemned. A COW whose tenn
perature raised over 103 or 104 may be
! considered suspicious Over 104, up to
i 1912, are usually reactors and tuber-