Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-08-19
Getting Sioo q Year from Cow
and Knowing IL.

A farmer is successful to the extent
that he treats the business as q business
proposition. The aim must be to treat
the farm in such way that 1t can be
determined what each thing is paying.
This is especially true in dsirying.
Judge Turner Buswell Of Maine, a
lawyer and ex-judge, has a herd OF
Guernseys and each cow gives him an
income of 500 year. He knows to
the smallest figure what each COW is do
ing and knows whether or not COW is q
"boarder" or is paying her way. Thus
By his system of testing he is able to
eliminate any COW that may not be pay
ing for her keeping.
His farm is situated in Skowhegan
about two miles from this village. He
employs a manager upon his farm and
sells his cream at the creamery at an
average Of IS cents per pound for the
butterfat. He has a set OF Fairbanks
scales that were made to order for him.
They record pounds and tenths OF
pounds. He has three weights in test
ing his milk: Cow weight, barn weight
and house weight. He determines what
each cow can do for the first eight
mouths of lactation. He has found the
first eight months Of lactation in de-
crease of milk from week to week is uni
form. To determine with the rest what
a cow gives during the time that she is
feding her calf he multiplies what she
gives the fourth week by four.
In the barn he weighs the milk at
each milking from each cow separately,
but in the house be weighs the aggre-
gate of the herd. he keeps his record
for each COW by table that gives the
pounds of milk, the pounds of cream,
the percent of butterfat, the test, the
pounds of butterfat and the percentage
of butterfat for the herd, He has found
that a pound of butterfst is lost in the
separator to every ton of milk. His
herd numbers eleven cows and last year
he had 81 tons of milk, 5000 pounds OF
cream. and the income from each COW
was S1OO. This did not include the
value of the skimmilk for the hogs and
other usage. He did not reckon the
dressing with this. He found that each
COW cost him one ton of feed Of grains
and $50 worth of hay. His ration of
feed in grain is of equal parts OF bran,
linseed, cottonseed and corn meal. He
gives each COW one-third the weight of
the milk.
Judge Buswell has farm that would
readily sell for about $1,000. 1t has
about 200 acres Of land and whereas
most men in keeping dairy herd make
the herd dovetail in results with the
rest of the farm, Judge Buswell is able
to show that there is a profit in dairying
by making this business a unit and hgur'
ing as though this branch OF business
were separate from the rest OF the farm.
He has found that heifer with her
first calf for the first year will give 4,0OO
pounds of milk; the second year, 4,o3S
pounds; the third year, 5,667 pounds;
the fourth year, 5, 400 pounds. he has
COW that is eleven years old which for
that year gave S,764 pounds Of milk
another ten years old that year, 1000
pounds of milk. He keeps his cows al
long as they can eat and declares they
will do as well one year as another. de
has been in the business 20 years, though
he does none of the work on the farm
himself. He started with full blooded
Jerseys, but his herd now is grade
Guernseys, the average weight OF
Guernsey COW being 1000 pounds and
the girth 6 feet. When asked why he
preferred Gueruseys TO other breeds hs
said they were hardier and best adapted
for producing butterfat.-John 4
Taylor, in Hoard's Dairyman.