The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-12-04
(By Edgar I. Olsen.)

crease In the dairy industry Ill balAea
County so finally some were convinced
that the county was adapted for it that
several car loads of high grade dairy
cattle were introduced.
Owing to the ease with which the
proper feeds can bo grown, dairying
bids fair to become one of the leading
lines of farming in the county. Our
native grasses are good, these supple
mented by the most common tame
grasses; millet and blame grass, and
oats will produce butter-fat proftably,
these coupled with corn, fed as silage,
and alfalfa hay, make profitable dairy
ing an assured fact, providing our
COWS possessed the ability to turn
these feeds into butter fat.
Owing to the fact that the introduce
ton of cattle is necessary if we are to
maintain our present state of soil fer
tiIity and conditions being naturally so
favorable for dairying a group of farm
ers in the vicinity of Leal and Wimble.
don determined that if they were 60
ing into thing they were going into
it right, and with that end in view
they introduced number of register
ed bulls and also organized the Leal'
Wimbledon Cooperative Cow Testing
Association, the first and only one in
the state, in which, part of the cost is
paid by the members.
The advantages of a testing associa-
ton are many, chief however Is that
it shows which cows are capable and
to what extent, of producing butter
fat at a profit and which are not.
When one realizes that the expense
of feeding and caring for cow
amounts to approximately 500 per
year one begins to wonder if his own
COWS are being kept for profit. In fact
figures from the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture show that one
third of the ordinary COWS are kept at
a loss, one-third break about even and
the other one-third make money.
Successful dairying requires: cows
capable of producing large flow OF
milk containing fair per cent of but
terffat, not only for eight months of
the year but for ten months, proper
feeds which are fed correctly, and a
satisfactory price for the product. The
right COW is the first and most import
ant requisite and whether or not
COW is capable of making money can
only be determined by keeping her in.
dividual record for some length of
time, this is best accomplished thru a
testing association. An instance OF
how the testing association does this
is made clear by the following in
stance:
Herd number 20 in The Leal-Wimble-
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turning, according to feeding stand
ards, full value for the amount of feed
fed. In short this herd consisting of
seven head produced at a cost of
$29.83 only 1856 pounds of butter fat
worth at current prices 1876 giving
profit of $500 for the month. In the
following month, July, this same herd
under identical conditions except for
the smaller amount Of feed, returned
1868 pounds of butter fat at cost Of
$19.49, this was sold at the same price
as the previous months output and
realized $35.47, giving profit. Of
1888, $7.95 more than was made in
June. True the total production was
less LA per COW but this was prob.
ably due to the greater prevalence Of
flies, not to the difference in feed.
1t is the aim of the Leal-Wimbledon
Testing Association to also pick out
the sheep from the goats, so to speak,
in the dairy herd. In order to do this
correctly we should have results for
at least one year. That differences in
our ordinary COWS is very marked is
shown by the following decord of two
two year old heifers in herd Number
Is. These both freshened in Novem-
Der at nearly the same time, size and
conditions about the same, one how
ever possesses much better dairy con.
formation. Their records for the
month of November are as follows:
Cow No. 7-Milk per day, IT. lbs;
test, 3.8; butter fat per month, 20.1S
lbs; cost $3.50; profit, 1885.
Cow No. S-Milk per day, IL lbs;
test, rs; butter fat per month,
1856 Us; cost, $3.50; loss $012.
Cow No. If giving the same milk
flow, would produce owing to the Diff
ference in test 1925 less of butter fat.
These were both ordinary grade
cows having q small per cent of Short
horn blood.
Figures so far obtained are encour-
aging, there are several individuals
which havo IN thar orodi< haitian <hon