Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-08-08

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
imagine that they can produce an an
imal that will make good beef an an
ter as it is needed. Never was there
greater mistake II 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 wedgeshaped,
| hOnv bi0 paVpcbad dair,r tvDa oR a0u,
Let us select the breeds that best
pleases our taste. providing ii is a true
A,daSty breed ard then stick 10 that. BY
this 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 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 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
finals because they are able to hide
their shortcomings iii the product Of
the general herd.
A farmer may own six COWS that
will produce every year a profit Of
from SIS to 800, but If he has. in ad
dition, six others that do not pay fol
the feed they consume, he is simply
trying to lift himself with a bool
strap and is working against himself
all the time.
The Babcoek tester is now an easy
matter to tell exactly just what each
COW in the herd is doing. what it pro
duces every day, and how rich the pro
duction is in butter fSt. The young
heifers must also be tested At first
many OF them will no: prove profitable
but as the true dairy blood works 1t
self into the herd, the por cent. of non
profitable ones will grow smaller
There is absolutely no use on this
small farm, or any other for that mat
ter for the cow that will not pay hei
owner from SIS to 500 net profit pc.
annum.
We know of farm of 4S acres neal
Elgin. Ill, on which is kept a hero
OF from nine TO IL COWS Nine cows
are now being MIXED aad the regular
" monthly gross inco,le from these
nine cows runs from S115 to $l25 pei
month The work is all done during
the winter by one man, young Ger
: man who is good dairyman, and who
runs his place on scientific principles
During the summer he hires some ex
IRA help but laments the fact that h,
has no orchard or enough small frui
to enable him to keep man all thu
year around
Poultry raising is the true adjunc
OF dairying and ought to be hitched vi
with fruit raising on every farm wherr
orcharding is not strictly CONNER
cial business.