The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-09-11
THE DAIRY COW is THE
uNRIvALEp FOOD PRODUCER.
lsouthern Farm Journal.l

The dairy COW is the most economi-
cal machine for the making of rough
farm products into human food. A
good, not an extraordinary, COW VIII
return SIS per year above cost and
feed. have COW tnat did TINS ana
I lust paid $50 for her. 1t isn't such a
hard job to have cows do lots peter
than this There is record OF good
cow that had only ordinary care that
runs like this:
In a period Of 365 days she produced
a total of 22,O63.5 pounds of milk, This
amount of milk showed by test to con-
tain 991.5 pounds butter. The second
week of her lactation period, when she
was at her highest, she produced, ac-
cording to test, 29.l5 pounds butterfat'
20 pounds pure protein. and 30 POUNDS
of milk sugar. This, says Prof. Hacker,
of the University of Minnesota, would
be equivalent in food value to veal
calf Weighing 200 pounds. Her years
milk yield shows, by careful calcula-
ton, to be equivalent to twenty-five
yearling steers weighing 500 pounds
each" says he, land she was not fed
more than a medium ration for a 200
pound steer And we are sure the
beef business is profitable.
Now / will admit any time that there
is work, and lots OF it, connected with
a dairy business, but it is not unpleas-
ant in any sense to me, especially when
| | think what / am doing to build up
| the soil. When one disposes OF the
dairy product in the form of cream or
butter he is indeed soil builder. Then
| IL is the sort of work that breeds regu-
larity and punctuality. The effect of
regular habit formed in a young man
cannot be overestimated. Then, 1t
| breeds kindness. can't conceive of
any mean man staying in the dairy
business long. He certainly would NOT
be success. believe the effect good
| dairying has on character Is one OF
| the strongest arguments in FAVOR oil
more and better dairying.
| When ] say that there are cows that
| produce nine hundred and thousand
pounds of butter in a year | imagine
| that some will say that these are very
/ exceptional COWS and that there are
very few Of this kind. / am sure
there are more cows of. this KIND tharl
| are found out. 1t is interesting TO note
| that many Of the cows that made rec
| ords of around thousand pounds were
entirely unknown till they fell into the
hands of men who really cared FOL
| them and studied their nature. They
were fed like the others of the herd
and although they may have been no
tied always to be greedy for more feed
the owner never took the trouble &c
test them out to really see what they
were capable of doing. This is another
place where the enthusiastic young
man will get rewarded for his thought
fulness and care. He viii find In II
mot only very interesting work, bu'
win be OF great service to his com
munity and his fellowman The strair
q cattle he will develop by breedint
~ !. 80 ideal reproducing cows
~ 80, $3.50 ~ ~ bringing him In fine pro
~, lie win for him repu
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James Il. Stanley, 49,, /
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