Semi-weekly herald., 1911-12-18
CREAM AND OUR CREAMERY.
Some Considerations For the Pros
pective Creamery Patron.

Now that we are practically assur-
ed of creamery for Durango, many
farmers are doubtless thinking of
buying few cows and selling milk
and cream. And the question pre-
sents itself, What kind of an animal
shall l buy?" Shall buy cows that
are good mixers regardless of breed,
or shall l attempt to use pure breeds
In studying this problem let us first
see what breed is.
Probably all cattle came originally
from the same parent stock. Men
having different ideas and different
ideals naturally bred with different
object in view. The result is that we
have some strictly dairy types, some
strictly beef types and some so-called
dual purpose types.
Each individual type has been bred
and handled for years under condi.
tions peculiar to the locality in which
the type was raised. So we have
forager and a rustler for food. She
gives great quantities of milk, but it
is not very rich in butter fat.
The Hollander has developed COW
that gives lots of milk with high
percentage of casein. The Hollander
is a lover of cheese and the COW he
has produced is not to be surpassed
in the making of cheese. In amount of
milk the Holstein stands at the top,
but the milk is not rich in butter fat.
The Jersey and Guernsey have been
bred on small islands with no inter-
mixture of blood for many years.
There are only limited areas of land
for grazing, and the type that has
been developed may be called do
mestic animal. Milk from Jerseys
or Guernseys is very rich in butter
fat and also in natural color, SO
that it is very seldom that CONNER
cial color is needed for .he butter.
Shorthorns are often called dual
purpose cattle.
There are milking strains of Short
There are milking strains of Short
horns that are very good as mixers,
giving large quantity of fairly rich
milk. The same is true of the Dur
ham which is branch of the Short
horn breed. They are as rule very
docile and easily handled.
There is no best breed. The breed
to select is the one you can best ham
die. The man is more important than
the COW, and any breed properly cared
for will give good returns.
What is the objection to having a
conglomerated herd of good mixers
The principal feature of the dairy as
well as any other BUSINESS is to get
large returns in the most economical
way. In conglomerated herd one
COW in order to produce the most
economical milk flow will require
plenty of roughage, another will re-
quire more concentrates, and SO on.
There is not the great variation in
one breed in this respect that there is
in mixed herd. 1t is simply a mat
ter of economy in handling Then too,
experiments have shown that it is
more. economical to feed well bred an;
mails than it is to feed grades, be-
cause the grade has not the power Of
utilizing food that the well bred ami
NAL has.
Having selected your breed, study
them. Study their habits, likes and
dislikes. An animal affords one of
the most enjoyabl subject, for study.
The animal cannot tell you what it |
wants except by its actions and it
is the business Of the careful mann
ger to interpret those actions.
GEO. w. GRAVES,
Instructor in Agriculture, Fort
Lewis School