Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-31
A BIG DAIRY Meeting.


The dairy institute that was he'll
at Lakota was one of the larges
meetings held in the state. If any on
ten years ago had predicted that
would be possible to hold a strictl
dairy meeting at Lakota with an al
tendance of $50. he would have beel
looked upon as ready for the buI
house..
There they were listening to talk
by experts on how to select feed AM
|care for dairy stock. The butter wa
there too, there being 80 entries o
butter and it scored well. The high
lest score was 81 on butter exhibited
by Mrs. L. O Johnson. The mex
highest in order were Mrs. Johl
Shone, Mrs. C. ]. Cruise, Mrs. Gilber
Anseth and Mrs. Frank Wiseman. Mr.
Gregg, who scored the butter. in com
menting on it. stated that it was {
very good exhibit on the whole
that the flavors were good, the great
est fault that he found was that II
had been worked too much so that II
was waxy, so that the granular struc
ture had been effaced.
In the bread contest Mrs. John
Harbaugh won first, Mrs. Frank
Sheets second; and Miss Anna Hid
emeyer, third.
There was also a fine exhibit made
by the students of the course In
home acknowledgement made by
the students, food prepared by them
showing that they are achieving much
skill in the doing of things. The
students of the course in manual
training also had fine exhibit of
handiwork.
Mr.. o. c. Gregg who is lecturing for
the North Dakota Farmers institutes,
addressed the meeting on the selec-
ton Of dairy COWS. He stated that
it was not necessary that the cow be
a good mixer, have a pedigree, but
that it was important that she had
the following five points we'll devel.
oped. First, large body so that
she can eat and digest large amount
of food as it is from food that milk
is made. Second, that the back be
lean and especially back and shout.
ders. This indicates that the food
does not go to the making of flesh,
but to the making of milk. Third.
that the udder be large as it is here
that the milk is manufactured. Fourth
that the milk wells be large as it is
through these that the blood from the
udder flows back to the heart, the
more blood goes through the udder
the more milk is made there. Fifth
that the eye be large, full and clear
as that indicates good nerves and it
is the nerves that drive the organs
of digestion and milk making. To
the above he added that another
point should be added and that was
the use of the scales and the Bah.
cock test.
In discussing the winter dairy he
said that it fits in with the rest Of
the work on the farm, and will at the
same time be the most profitable.
The busiest time of the year and the
poorest time for producing milk
comes in August and September, and
that is the time the cows 90 dry in
winter dairying. Have the cows
drop their calves in the fall, they can
then be put on good feed so as to
keep up good milk flow all winter
and when they get on grass in the
spring the good milk flow will keep up
until the pastures begin to get short
and that is the time to dry them up.
The calves can be fed on the skim
milk during the winter and will then
be in good condition in the spring to
go onto grass so that their keep for
the first year will be small. He also
spoke of the value of distributing the
work throughout the season.
Pref. Thomas Shaw the great agri-
culturist expert, also one of the Farm.
ers' institute lectures, gave very
strong address on the growing of foods
for the dairy COW. He laid good
deal of emphasis on the value of corn
for fodder; it will produce an abund.
ance of fine quality fodder and at the
same time has very beneficial ef-
feet on the soil for the following crop
of grain. He thought that every farm.
er ought to grow some corn. He
thought that more attention should be
given to growing it for fodder than
for the grain. He laid good deal of
on the value of alfalfa, and
assured the farmers that they would
be able to grow it with a good deal
of success. He gave the following
points to be observed: Manure the
ground well, then plant to corn or
potatoes and the next year SOW to
alfalfa without a nurse crop. sowing
eight to ten pounds of seed the last
of May or early in June. When the