Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-10-30

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aeaiA taklng y Ne I'm work q
1ount Vunen, WaGhllGooa said
NY eountzynsn azs too much ussd
to corn bladss and eogn shucks, and
have too 6ttle knoW1s1go II TIE prof.
Il Of gEass lands." That statement
may well apply 10 ~ ct this time
From Washinoten's day down to ths
present TIE agricultural history Of
our nation has proved beyond Ill
necessity Of Argument that live stocl
farming must b rssortsd 10 in order
to naks TIE crops raised ON farms
bring IN . maximum return. Il is es-
pseially true Of this particular dis
trict who're feed can b raised in
plenty, and 1t . time when live stock
and their products command the
highest prices ever attained in the
history Of this country. In this con-
nection, there Is an exceptional op-
portunity in dairy farming. Well has
it been said "There is no branch Of
agriculture that takes a. little fer
tility from the soil and at the same
time returns a. good q profit for the
farmer a. dairy farming"
F. d. Coburn Of Kansas, one Of
the worlds greatest authorities on
agriculture says: mo other branch
Of agriculture presents more advan-
tages than dairying- disposing of
the products Of the farm as milk and
butter fat. When the latter may be
sold to creamery stations and the
skim milk fed to calves and pigs,
along with alfalfa, the profits are
greater than from almost any other
form Of agriculture. No other bust
ness tends SO rapidly to build up the
fertility Of the farm, and when ju-
diciously managed, no other branch
Of farming yields more satisfactory
finacial returns. Raising and feed
ing alfalfa will add from Is to 30
per cent to the profits Of dairying
over the use Of any other feedstuff
that may be raised or bought. The
profit problem for the dairyman is
to find the feed that will |
decrease the cost of his production"
Advice is cheap, but the sum of
in the dairy business has
left valuable lessons that the begin
ner in q dairy enterprise canot af-
ford to ignore. The situation is well
by H. NJ. Cottrell, a man
If long experience and observation
N the dairy business. "The man is
he first essential; no matter how
favorable the conditions or how good
he markets, the man must at heart
'e a dairyman or the profits will not
'e what they should. Many men can
'et good returns from other lines
4 farming, but fail with the dairy
ow because they are not made
ight.'"
A man to make money in dairying !
lust be a man who thinks. II is '
stonishing how many men are keep I
lg dairy cows instead Of the cows v
eeping them, because the men do 4
OF think. II is common thing to n
.e man with n herd Of ten or ff- k
'en cows where two or three are v
navy mixers and some are so beefy n
mt they do not give enough milk to /,
~ for the labor of milking and
arketing the products. The heavy. G.
'ofitable mixers have the distinct m
TRY type: the COWS that do not pay a,
penses are built on the beef type Ii
ID the rest of the herd is n mixture
forms. The man milks these COWS -
ice a day, seven days in the week. ~,
ID yet has never thought enough t. A
tice what shape of body. form of n,
der, depth Of hips or arch of flank n,
e cows have that pay best. and of A,
ose that yield least. h;
The money making dairyman W,
inks out in winter the plans for pt
anting that will give him the crops be
1t will produce the largest yield Of to
TX and butter fat when fed the m,
xt winter. He studies each COW in A
J herd and notices the shape of IN
cry part Of her body and compares ma
, difference inf orm in their rela-
n to the milk yield. He not only da
ds what forms indicate a profit mi
e COW, but why. is
A man to make money in dairying tic
st be good feeder. He must give pr
pie feed and Of a kind that will thi
'duce much milk. Generous men mi
en- give plenty Of feed, but Of the in
d that fattens. Some men lose all sh,
profits by keeping ten cows on sh'
feed that would make Ave yield COZ
]. The most money is made where sh'
b COW is watched and fed indi- inc
nally, to force her to do her best. wa
thinking dairyman finds u COW
Use feed is forcing her to give so co,
h milk that she is becoming weak. enc