The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-08-16
BLOODED CATTLE.

Prof. F, S. Cooley of the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, re-
Gently said that the high-priced COW
is not so expensive as she seems, in
view of what she produces. The
average cow produces milk or butter
to the value of $3.50, and she costs
$51 a year, reckoning that the ma
nure that she produces offsets the
care given her. This shows that the
cow does not do great deal toward
raising the mortgage on the farm.
Assuming that it costs no more to
keep a good COW than a poor one,
the figures will show that the good
COW will produce 5000 pounds of
milk year while a choice COW will
produce as high as 10000, meaning
profit of 1925, against the almost
even balance sheet of the average
COW, while Pieterje I'd, Holstein,
has record of 10000 pounds of
milk year, which would make a
profit of $1,050.
The above can be illustrated per-
haps in another manner by contrast
ing the more common barnyard va
riety with Johanna, the worlds sec
ond best COW. Take for instance that
the scrub produces three 60-pound
buckets or tubs of butter in a year,
which weighs 142 pounds. Anoth-
er pile, representing 81 sixty-pound
tubs is the amount of butter that
Johanna, the Wisconsin eX-champion
bossy produced in a year. Total,
1,247.S pounds. This makes nine
scrub cows to do the work of one
Johanna or a.cow of her class. OBJ
viously it is better to have one near
Johanna than to have a herd of
nine average COWS, since a COW of
her class occupies but one stall and
eats but one cows rations, and pro-
duces as much butter as the nine.
The fact is that the scrub COW isn't
worth her salt. She is an expense
rather than otherwise; doesn't even
pay for her own board. This has
been proved by careful inVestiga-
tion-investigation that shows that
the average farmer in this country
customarily keeps on his place COWS
that have been an expense to him
from the first and always will be
till they are butchered. OF course
parentage is the chief consideration.
The heifer calf that comes of a race
of good mixers is likely to be a
good mixer herself. The care the
calf gets during the first six or eight
weeks OF her life is the factor next
in Importance perhaps. To build up
the frame of a good dairy COW you
must feed WHOLE MILK for six,
eight or even ten weeks. A heifer
should be fed for bone and muscle
till she is Of breeding age. After
that she should be kept fat. After
the first calf Is born care should be
taken to milk her for as long a per
iod as possible. This tends to
strengthen the milk-giving habit
she inherits from her forebears.
Dolly Dimple, Guernsey COW.
owned by F. L. Ames, North Easton'
Mass, is claimed to hold the worlds
record for Guernseys, producing
9O6.S9 pounds OF fat in a year,
Dolly Dimple has to her credit the
following official years records for
her three lactation periods: 14OO9. ia
pounds milk, 703.36 butterfat at
year old; 1S45S.80 pounds milk,
906.S9 pounds butterfat as a 35h-
year-old; 1SS08.50 pounds milk.
S76.34 pounds butter-fat, as a five
year-old, with an average of 1902
IA pounds milk, S28.86 pounds hut
terfat. Not only does this place her
in the lead of all Guernsey cows in
the world, but there is no continu-