Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1913-10-18
THE UNEDUCATED COW.
Only Two Great Classes of Cows
Are Recognized.

But two great classes of cows are
recognized gencrally today, not alone
ny breed, but by the purpose back OF
tne Dreed1ng, or the cducdt1on they
nave received. The one type, through
careluI selection and years OF Intcln
gent matings, nave been educated to
| produce mnk III large quantities; the
| otncr, handled with equal care ana
| foresight, has been bred to produce
Deet III an economical way. Either
| OF these two great classes, with prop
er treatment, may be depended upon
| 90 render reasonably profitable re-
turns.
Inere is, however, another type-a
| type all too prevalent wherever COW,
dre tound-tne uneducated or scrub
| COW. 1 hs class has had none of the
benefits resulting from generations OF
care ful breeding and feeding which
| developed the modern type OF dairy
COW, or that produced the wonderful
beef animal OF the better farms of to
day. This third type of COW has re
ceived no education; 1t invariably rem
ders loss instead of profit. 1t is an
indisputable fact that fully one thiro
of the so-called dairy cows of the
| United States are kept at an actual
| loss to their owners. Just as long a.
men will continue to practice the false
economy of using inferior or scrub
Dulls and so long as they continue to
sell the promising heifer calves, there
will still be paucity of high-class
! larry cows. The writer recently spent
/ day at the Union Stock Yards at
| Chicago. On the day | called there
we're over $500 calves on the market
Of this number of ''veals | estimated
that from IS to 40 per cent were hef
ers More than onehalf of these he'll
ers showed very pronounced dairy
type in general characteristics. Hun
| lredS OF these calves showed strong
! Holstein, Guernsey or Jersey color
markings, and very many OF them
! rom their outward appearance would
have been much admired on any farm
where purebred animals only are pro
| luced. | could not refrain from con
trasting these little heifers which
showed that they carried lot of good
| blood (education) with the thousand,
Of sorry looking scrubs that ! have
seen in pastures and dry lots in vari
Gus parts OF the country.
In so far as | know there has never
been any one who has dared to at
tempt to figure up the enormous loss
annually due to the use of the scruf
/ bull Throughout the South the Fed
eral Government. aided by the State
authorities and by some OF the rail
roads, have entered into the sport %
Of bull fighting The campaign there
is against the scrub bull. and it is est
mated that there is one million OF
] him in fourteen Southern States. With
too many farmers "a COW is COW,
! md these men would rather pay Sl5t
/ for three or four "uneducated" ami
mails than to invest a like amount in
one good COW These men fail to re
alize that there is large profit in own
/ ing a COW that will produce from 6OO
to 5000 pounds of milk each year test
ing over per cent, whereas three or
/ four cows all working to produce oO0i
/ to 5000 pounds, Will lose a lot OF
money for their owner, because the
maintenance cost will be three OF
| four times as great.
The scales and the Babcock tester
are just as essential to the successful
/ dairyman as the scales and a yarG
/ stick to the successful merchant.
/ Should the latter lay aside his scales
/ Hlltl measures II - lipN iiNNiN Nh't IN
would long remain merchant. On
/ equal importance then is the necessity
OF keeping accurate records OF the per
/ Torrance OF each COW. and to use ac
/ curate amounts in feeding, if the
/ dairy farm Is to succeed. Open an
account with each individual exactly
/ the same as the merchant opens Il
! charge account with his customer, Ii
/ the cows fails to pay her accounts and
/ fails OF an education. the remedy
| is obvious. Scientific management Il
! Just as vital OH farm as III the stor.
I or factory.
/ Feeding, wedding and breeding are
/ the keynotes of successful dairying.
! lndiscriminate feeding is responsible
/ for much failure. A safe rule to fol
! low is to feed one pound OF grain for
each three and one-half pounds OF
milk produced daily By following
! this rule good COWS will not be UNI
derfed and the uneducated ones will
not then receive the grain which
! should belong to the COW that returns
profit
| Feeding is not all there is to success
! ful darying, however. As the scales
and Babcock tester will tell one how
to feed and weed the herd, experience
alone will tell one how to breed.
There are number of prominent
! breeds of dairy cattle, and with lit
tie though one should be able to Sc
! lect a breed which is adapted to his
! local conditions. The first essential
in keeping up dairy is by the use of
thoroughbred bull of strong milk
producing Inheritance, This applies
with equal force to both the purebred
and the grade herd. The bull should
possess ancestry of known record for
production. If for six generations
back on both the paternal and ma
ternal sides there are producing
ancestors. such a bull is about twelve
! times as likely TO produce the good
dairy characteristics, as will bull
which. even though purebred. comes
/ from line of stock which were un
profitable or inferior producers. Thus
! it will be seen that by using high