The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-19
Weekly Bureau of In
formation for An Who
TIL the Soil or Are IN
terested in Making Homes
KINDNESS NECESSARY
TO.THE DAIRY HERD

success in any undertaking rests
upon few simple propositions. They
run pretty much rs follows:
a knowledge CT the machine, an
appreciation of tile details, ability to
direct the energies and forces and
ability to dispose of the product.
Milk production, beyond natural
conditions. belongs to the nervous tenn
porament.
When the possibility of adding to
the normal meat making powers was
assured, the first step taken was the
fixing Of type in accord with functions.
Here was the initiatory step--here
the first crude recognition of distinct
x tempcraments and their purposes, and
out of this have come the breeds and
their abnormal Development
Man, all the whi has been the
dominating and controlling factor.
H To-day the extremes OF milk and
beef type are before US The cold
selfish on the one hand, storing every
ounce to its Own purposes, the making
of growth and fat, and the warm.
sympathetic, unselfsh, .highly-nervous
z organism striving to spend itself for
the direct benefit of others.
Six thousand pounds of milk yearly
make the minimum limit of indi-
vidual self-support.
Eight thousand to 10000 pounds
mark the range of possible profitable
production. the limit being an un-
known factor.
For this great production there must
be the dairy type; the loosely con
struct ed. nervous organism, the large
barrel. the wide loins, large uddcr,
great flow of blood, and, more than all,
the certainty of Intelligence
Milk. and especially the butter fat.
z is the direct product of nerve force,
and to be invited through Intelligent
contact.
The COW and her owner must be
friends. Kindness and sympathy must
dominate every step.
Begin the education of the future
cow by educating the dam.
Take the calf in hand at once upon
birth and allow no fat to get n foot
{ hold and divert the dairy tendencies.
Grow with sole reference to future
services.
Begin early to handle and train and
never play with the calves Allow no
caretaker to have charge unless he is
in full sympathy with your purposes,
and has n large appreciation of the
prohlenf
The channel of nerve force must be
untrammeled- and the seat Of nerve
forcei the brain. undisturbed and under
i Forthcoming.
B Dealing with the functions so alb
normally developed, and yet to be in
tensifted, all conditions possible to af-
feet the production should be taken
into account
The dairyman of to-day will fail to-
morrow unless he feels growing within
him spirit of reverence for his dairy
cows.
Lsining for his support on these
n1Terial functions, and seeking all the
sShile toNincrease the same, he should
never forget that 1t Is out OF intelli-
genco and unselishness of his animals
that he is being enriched.
So, every instinct of humanity should
prompt. recognition of the untiring SER
vices of these faithful servants, whose
only thought is to yield to the utmost
{ in response to friendly invitation.
Increase of product and decrease OF
cost per pound are inevitable and no
man has determined the limit.
He who succeeds along the line of
matchmaking machinery will be he who
knows the machine most thoroughly,
believes in 1t most firmly and respects
II most truly.