The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1913-10-02

it is q 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
of the feeds he buys. This means the
scrubs must be kept out Of the herd.
Dairy farmers on 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 20 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 1t 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
wo havo m uao Rnr <ho v,oA~o nj, a v>oA
bony big paunched dairy type Of COW.
Let US select the breeds that best
pleases our taste. providing 1t Is q true
dairy breed, and then stick to that BY
the use Of pure bred bulls any careful
man can, within I'VE or six years. build
up q 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
q dairy 10 to grow up with the eows-
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 q man will soon be sur
rounded with herd Of which he may
be proud.
In selecting calves from the best
cows. guess work 10 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 IN 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 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 II 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 ia 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 10 in butter fat. The young
heifers must also be tested. At first |
many Of then will not prove profitable,
but as the true dairy blood works it. |
self into the herd. the per cent. of non
profitable ones win grow smaller.
There IL absolutely no use on the
small farm. or any other for that mat
ter. for the COW that will not nav her
owner from SIS to 500 net profit DER |
We know Of farm Of 43 acres near
Elgin. ILL.,. on which 10 kept q herd
of from nine to II COWS. Nine cows
are now being MIXED and the regular.
y monthly gross income from these
nine cows runs from $116 to 3125 Der
month. The work is all done during
he winter by one man. a young Ger
nan who is . good dairyman, and who
-uns his place on scientific principles.
During the summer he hires some ex-
IA help, but laments the fact that he
las no orchard or enough small fruit
% enable him to keep a man all the
rear around.
Poultry raising is the true adjunct
II dairying and ought to be hitched up
With fruit raising on every farm where
is not q strictly CONNER.
ial business.