Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-08-06

i it is matter of business economy to
 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 l 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 i 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 l 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 greater mistake If we are going in for dairying let us use COWS that are bred for milk and butter and not for beef. If we are going in for beef we have no use for the wedge-shaped, bony big paunehed 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 ;ssshc-i that will produce the very best results and great deal less ex- pense than he could by going into the l market and buying pure bred at the start.
 We believe that the right way to run
 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 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 l 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 oth. ! CTS that are not paying for one-haif of i their feed, yet their owners go on, year after year, caring for these sortless an l imals because they are able to hide l their shortcomings ill the product of the general herd.
 farmer may own six COWS that | will produce every year profit of i from S75 to s1e0, but if he has. in ad-
 dition, six others that do not pay for i 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 1 COW in the herd is doing, what it pro- i duces every day, and how rich the pro- | duction is in butter fat. The. young i heifers must also be tested. At first
 many of them will not prove profitable,
 but as the true dairy blood works it. 1 oJf ;pto o~d ha Dfn
 profitable ones will grow smaller. i 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 $75 to $100 net profit per annum.
 We know of Q farm of 43 acres near
 Elgin, H., on which Is kept a herd of from nine to 12 COWS. Nine cows are now being milked and the regular ly monthly gross income from these nine cows runs from $115 to $125 per 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- tra 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 . strictly commer. cial business.