Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-07
scEr A COW" TO Dc ADDED TO
THE .sAck TO THE FARM"
SLOGAN IN IOWA.
SCRUBS WILL NOT 90
a. SUCCESS ls TO COME
Successful Denomination Of Dairy
Farming With Wsii-ersd Cows
Record Of Rouge u Shows What Can
Be Done - Returned Dividend Of 6
Per Cent on $500 Valuation.

account Of the Iowa Agricultural Col
lege. the 2-year-old Guernsey heifer.
Rouge I'd Of Brickfleld, is credited with
a net profit of $15s.09 for the year end
ing Jan. 10, 1911. During the year she
produced '10,962 pounds Of milk and
Oils pounds Of butter fat-the equiva-
lent Of 1873 pounds Of butter. This
butter at an average price of 30 cents a
pound was worth $214.13. The skim
milk at % cents hundred amounted to
$25.S7. The total cost Of feed was 1881,
leaving a net profit of $4,000. This Is
the highest record ever made by 2A
year old heifer of either Jersey or
Guernsey breeding.
These figures can be better appre.
ciated when it is understood that the
average net profit Of the Iowa cows
is not much over $25 q year. There are
a great many COWS in the state who do
not return any net profit at all. The
owner keeps them around for the
pleasure Of their company, or because
he likes to milk.
Rouge I'd of Brickfield is worth as
much from money making standpoint
as a herd of six ordinary COWS. Ten
COWS like her would assure the owner
Of very comfortable salary There
are good many preachers and some
doctors who would be glad to get as
much
Iowa has 100000 mich cows. They
produce about $c6.o00.O0O worth of but
ter fat a year. Three hundred thou
sand cows IKE Rouge Cd would pro-
duce the same amount Of butter fat.
The pasture and other feed necessary
for that other 100000 cows could be
devoted to beef productions, and the
day when Canada and the Argentine
will have to be called on to supply
America with beefsteak would be con-
siderably put off.
A Phenomenal Cow.
Rouge End is a phenomenal COW. Of
course, but there is no reason why ten
years attention to breeding and feed
ing should not make records like hers
Of common occurrence in Iowa.
Rouge End was imported from the
Island Of Guernsey q year ago last
summer by w. w. Marsh OF Waterloo.
The college bought her soon after. She
did not recover from the effects Of her
voyage for several months. II 1t had
not been for that her record would no
doubt have been larger.
Rouge End comes from high produce
ing families on both sire and dams
side. She has a typical form. She gave
no Indications Of being q record break
er. however. until after her test had
commenced. Right here is q lesson fof
a good many Of the farmers and dairy
men Of Iowa. The best COW Judges ad-
~I>@
COW by her looks. It takes the scales
and the babcock tester to tell whether
she is a profitable proposition or not
Many an Iowa farmer is loaded down
with Improbable cows that eat more
every year than they pay for. Prof. r.
X. Bliss Of the extension department
at Ames says that the remedy lies in
organizing COW test associations on
the Danish plan. He organized two
such associations a year ago last June.
and in the year that followed the farm
ers in these associations detected and
sold 147 improbable COWS. But more
Of that later.
Rouge End was given the best Of care
and feed while she was making this
wonderful record. Speaking Of Thomas
Scott, the herdsman, Prof. III. II. Kildee.
who is in charge OF the dairy farm.
said: TON took better care of Rouge
End than any COW ever received before.
He knew just what she liked, and saw
that she always got IT.
II always watched Rouge ends ap-
petite and regulated her feed acord-
ingly," Tom said. II would rather see
a cow go down in her milk for few
days than to go off feed. 1t pays better
in the end"
Rouss's Daily Menu.
Rouge End was MIXED three times a
day. and fed three or four times each
day at regular intervals. The following
menu cards give an idea Of what she