Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-08-07

IL rs indIleT OI DuSluSS5 SCOuOLuy W
buy them
No farmer need be afraid to buy feed
for his dairy cows provided he knows
what to buy and how to buy them
He must have those feeds that con-
tain the elements lacking in the home
feed, and then again. he must own
cows which will make the best use
of the feeds he buys. This means the
scrubs must be kept out Of the herd.
Dairy farmers on a small place must
buy bran, oil meal and barley, and he
must at all times study the question
of feeding as carefully as any other
branch of the business. because upon
this proper feeding depends very large
ly the success of his dairying.
But no matter how much good feed
the farm will produce, nor how much
the owner may be willing to buy from
the market, he will surely fail unless
he owns the right kind of cows. Have
nothing to do with beef blood Stick
to the two dairy breeds. Perhaps no
other subject has so much written and
talked about at the dairy meetings as
the dual purpose cow. Some farmers
imagine that they can produce an an
imal that will make good beef an an
ter as it Is needed. Never was there
a greater mistake. IL we are going
in for dairying let US use cows that
are bred for milk and butter and not
for beef. II we are going in for beef
we have no use for the wedge-shaped,
bony big paunched dairy type OF cow,
Let US select the breeds that best
pleases our taste, providing it is true
dairy breed, and then stick to that. BY
the use OF pure bred bulls any careful
man can, within FIVE or six years, build
up herd that will produce the very
best results and a great deal less ex.
pense than he could by going into the
market and buying pure bred at the
start
We believe that the right way to run
a dairy is to grow up with the cows
Select the best calves every year, and
by this we mean those from cows that
produce the greatest amount of milk
and butter, use nothing but pure bred
bulls and by keeping up this process
of selection a man will soon be sur.
rounded with a herd of which he may
be proud
In selecting calves from the best
| cows, guess work is not to be thought
Of The Babcock tester is the detec.
tive that spots the worthless COW ev.
| cry time and the tests must be care.
fully made IN order to know just what
the herd is doing. There are thou.
sands of COWS in every state today that
are not giving enough milk to pay for
their feed, there are thousands of 9th,
ers that are not paying for one-half OF
their feed, yet their owners go on, year
after year, caring for these sortless an
imals because they are able to hide
! their shortcomings In the product of
the general herd. .. ..
A farmer may own six cows that
will produce every year a profit of
from SIS to 500, but If he has, in ad.
dition, six others that do not pay for
the feed they consume, he is simply
trying to lift himself with a boot
strap and is working against himself
all the time.
The Babcock tester is now an easy
matter to tell exactly just what each
COW in the herd is doing, what 1t pro-
duces every day, snl how rich the pro-
duction is in butter fat. The young
heifers must also be tested. At first
many of them will cot prove profitable,
but as the true d;:iry blood works it.
self into the herd, the per cent. of non
profitable ones will grow smaller.
There is absolutely no use on the
small farm. or any other for that mat
ter, for the COW that will not pay her
owner from SIS to 500 net profit per
annum
We know of farm of 43 acres near
Eigin. ILL.,. on which is kept a herd
of from nine to IL cows. Nine cows
are now being MIXED and the regular
ly monthly gross income from these
nine cows runs from s1l5 to SIPS per
month. The work is all done during
the winter by one man, young Ger
man who Is a good dairyman, and who
runs his place on scientific principles.
During the summer he hires some ex-
ira help, but laments the fact that he
has no orchard or enough small fruit
to enable him to keep man all the
year around.
Poultry raising is the true adjunct
OF dairying and ought to be hitched up
with fruit raising on every farm where
orcharding is not a strictly CONNER
cial business.