The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-10-31
Says They Chase Herd and Mixers
Will Hold Back and Soon
Go Dry.
WANTS TESTING ASSOCIATION
Advises the Starting of One So That
Record Of Each Individual May
Be Kept.
Nelson's Don'ts For Dairymen.

1. Don't beat the COW with the
milk stool. She is naturally nervous
and every beating helps her go dry.
1t is a good way to lose money.
2. Don't send dog after the
COWS. A lively dog will make a COW
go dry three months before her time.
Why? Because she comes into the
stable heated up and will not give
down all her milk. Every bit that
stays in the udder makes her go dry
a little sooner.
3. Don't kick the cow in the
stomach if she happens to kick over
the pail. The milk ducts are on the
bottom side of the cows barrel and
a kick may permanently injure
them.
4. Don't buy a COW with small
teats. If you do, half of the milk
will go down the top of your boot.
5. Don't buy a COW with a small
udder. She never was big m1lker
and will not make you money. /
6. Don't buy a COW with a small
muzzle-er barrel. She has not the
power to grind up corn stalks or the
room to store them.
Z. Don't give your COWS ice cold
water to drink. Heat a kettle full
and temper each pailful of drinking
water until the chill has been taken
of.
8. Don't buy an expensive pedi-
greed bull. Get good individual
and select him with care. You can't
afford to pay for long price bull
unless you have big herd. 1t ties
up too much money.
9: Don't put up $500 silo un-
less you have ten cows or more. It
is too much money to tie up. Use
a ground silo that can be built for
twenty dollars.
10. Don't be afraid of using a
little kindness on your animals. A
dairy cow is a nervous creature and
kindness will put dollars into your
pocket through the milk pail.
A. e. Nelson, instructor in agri-
culture in the Bemidji schools, is
finding responsive audiences among
the farmers who are attending the
extension meetings in the rural
schools which he and other high
school teachers are visiting.
The band held their first meeting
in the Schroeder school house in
Grant Valley, the second in the
Bauer school in Eckles and the third
was held Tuesday night in the Eick-
stadt school in the town of FROM.
The fourth meeting will be held this
evening in the Wilton village school.
Mr.. Nelson takes with him
rough drawing of dairy COW and
from this drawing illustrates his
talk. The ten "Don'ts" which are
given at the head of this column are
some of those of which he tells dur
ing the course of his address. Mr..
Nelson starts his talk by comparing
beef and dairy animal and noting
the differences.
Beef Animal Makes Steaks.
s.vo,, nov boro pot;oad h. COWS
"that dairy animal has an entirely
different build from a beef animal.
If COW sticks her head out of the
barn door you can always tell the
kind of a. body which will follow it.
The beef animal has an inbred in
stinct to put meat on it's back and
hind quarters where the high-priced
steaks lie. A dairy animal has a
sharp back bone and falls away at
the sides.
THE neck of a beef animal is
thick. On the bull it is arched while
on the COW it goes straight back.
The neck of the dairy COW is slight
ly conceived. The withers of dairy
COW fall away at sharp angle and
the build is not as massive as in the
beef breeds. A good dairy COW has
long barrel-one that is capable
Of holding and assimilating much
roughage. A little COW has to be on
the move all the. time to find feed
(Coatinusd On last pass).