Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-01
HEAD WORK THE
KEY TO SUCCESS
FOR DA|RYMAN'
E. D. Baker Tells of His Elk
perience With One Cow,
Which Yields Him $25
Every Month.

Scientific feeding to happy and con-
tented cows results in wealthy farmers
and fattened bank accounts
Head work rather than muscle strain
Is the secret key to successful wealth.
producing from dairy cattle and the
more brain work and less muscle that
is used, the greater win be the returns
and the larger the account at the bank,
To prove this contention, Il. ID Baker
proudly points to his own COW, This
animal is happy. She is contented and
She produces exactly "a quarts of milk
312 days out OF the year Besides all
of the butter that he wants for his own
family all of the milk and cream that
he can use himself, the owner of this
Holstein sells 1s quarts every day to
the neighbors around him.
From his books, he finds that the
COW produces his own milk supply and
has netted him s25 month profit from
the time that he started to feed and
care for her in his own way. To make
a COW produce, she must be treated as
pet She must be kept warm. She
must be curried every day in the same
way that one would treat prize race
horse And above all other things, she
in the winter time.
people don't figure that more than
81 per cent of milk is nothing but water
and that the minute the COW drinks
cold water she is chilled and the guam
THY of her milk is reduced" said Mr..
Baker yesterday.
The Ideal Treatment.
The ideal proportion Of feed and the
treatment of fine dairy cows that would
make Idaho the greatest producing cen
ter in the United States Is a comhina-
tion of bran and shorts cornmeal, al
falfa meal and oil meal mixed at the
rate of 200 pounds of bran and shorts,
100 pounds of cornmeal, 200 pounds of
alfalfa meal, and so pounds of clinical.
This combination builds flesh and bone
and produces milk.
Were all of the farmers of the state
to use their head and figure out the
problems that arise in the handling Of
fine dairy cattle, Idaho would become
the greatest milk and butter producing
state in the Union. Mr. Baker says.
Here in Idaho we raise alfalfa of
the finest kind, the sort that we pay
$40 a ton for back in my old New Eng
land state. Here we can get it for 50
a ton and yet butter is 40 cents a pound
: in Boise and il is 40 cents a pound in
Boston. What's the reason For it2 The
lack of dairy cows. | was raised in the
dairy business and it seems to me that
this state has the greatest advantages
of any section Of the Union for the pros
ducing Of fine butter and the maximum
amount of first quality milk.
Selection of Cattle.
1.-THE whole secret in the first place
lies in the selection of the cattle There
are strains of almost every kind of cat
tie that will produce large amounts Of
milk The idea in dairy state is To
get those kinds But the men who Sc
lect them must know. The two boys
of Milton Cage, high school students
scarcely over 15 years Of age. knoW
more about dairy cattle than 80 per
cent of the farmers of this state. They
have made study of dairy COWS and
have used their heads Many of the
farmers in the state have not gone that
far.
Another secret is the constant inn
provement of the stock. 4 short time
ago one COW produced 1900 pounds of
butter fat during tile year. l believe
the day will come when we shall see
the 1500-pound cow and that the stock
will be improved AT such rate that it
will go even higher.
Farmers schools With practical dem
/. onstrations are necessary to teach the
men the business and to create a sen-
timent over the state in favor of large
dairy industries The course should run
through the winter season and should
last about ten weeks. Somebody who
knows ought to be put ia charge Of
TO, -. L.. IL