Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-03-17

StdhuuS ny neT size mas produced oUU
pounds of butter, making for him
profit of from SIS to $40 even after
considering the value of the skim milk
and the manure from the standpoint
OF its fertilizing value. With this fact
IN mind and more interested in the
business, he is not satisfied at dis
posing of the poor cows alone, SO he
begins at once to build up his herd
Then It Is that he seeks knowledge
relative to the proper points to be
observed In the selection, breeding
feeding and the caring for cows, and
tfen 1t is that 1t becomes possible for
the experts hired by the Iowa State
Dairymen's association to be of as.
sistance to him. The spirit of i'm.
provement has reached farther than
the legislature and the Dairymen's as
ISOLATION. SO that at the present time
much good is being done by public
spirited men along this same line OF
improvement
Iowa Cow Culture Club.
Probably no one has excited SC
much interest in dairying during the
past year as has Mr.. w. w. Marsh
OF waterloo. Iowa. During this time
he has made two. or three trips to
the island of Guernsey and imported
from there. regardless of cost. nearly
100 head of the very finest Guernsey
cattle that money could buy. He was
the organizer of the Iowa Cow Culture
club and put up $1,000 in cash to be
divided as prizes among the IL cows
producing the most butter in Iowa
After he had started the game many
others followed The Iowa State Ag.
ricultural college at Ames agreed to
make official the records of these
COWS by sending tester TO. the home
OF each COW once a month. BY so
doing, when the years test has been
completed each COW will have an Off.
cial record Of the exact amount of
milk and butter that she has produced
during the year and there will be no
guesswork about it.
Hon. ]. j. Richardson of Davenport
Iowa, than whom there is no more in
huential man connected with the
American Jersey Cattle club of New
YORK city, at once set about to induce
the Cattle club to duplicate Mr..
Marsh's prizes for Jersey cattle that
might enter the contest and win
w. B. Barney of Hampton, Iowa. pres.
1dent of the Iowa Dairymen's associa.
tion and likewise influential with the
Holstein-Friesian association of Amer.
lea, induced his association to dupli.
cate the prizes to the extent of $500
for Holstein cows that might be win.
| ners of a portion of Mr.. Marsh's
money, and then it was that everyone
seemed anxious to put up prizes for
the good of this cause and seven or
eight pure bred dairy bull calves were
offered as prizes. to competitors own.
ing common grade cows. Dairy sepa.
rators, milking machines and prizes
of all kinds were offered. until finally
the prize list amounted to between
four and five thousand dollars, and
then it was that the farmers of Iowa
began entering their cows until at the
time when the date for entry closed
there were found to be competing In
the one large association 100 cows and
surprising are the facts that have
been revealed from month to month. A
large number of the cows have been
producing from 40 to 100 pounds of
butter per month and, on the other
hand, large number of them have
been producing from 10 to Is pounds
of butter a month; or, in other words.
some of the cows in the test are the
equal in milk and butter production
and, in the end, in the production of
ten of the cows on the other end.
This yearly contest will be finished
by the first Of August. 1910. and the
yearly production of 16O cows can
then be figured up. At that time 1t is
planned to duplicate the test and al
ready much prize money has been Of
fered for the cows that will enter for
another such race.
| Now, the value of such contest Is
not in the prize which the owner of a
COW may win. because this really is a
small portion Of the real good. but it
is surprising as well as very gratifying
to find how intense the interest of the
| owner Of the COW becomes when she
| begins her race In a public contest.
He at once wishes to learn the very
best ways of feeding and caring for
her and there is an impulse which
leads him on to increasing his edu-
cation along lines that will better the
conditions in the dairy for all time
to come. This growth of interest
brings questions from farmers, dairy.
men and breeders all over the state
regarding the building up and caring
for the dairy herd. Many are antici.
pating going into the dairy business
and others who have been in the dairy
| business are anticipating maxine