The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-02-11

most profit, because IL We are
putting in part of our lives feeding
cows and milking them, the value of
that part of our life is determined by
the amount of profit that we get out
OF those cows. There is no question
about this. The man who makes the
chief end of life getting dollars makes
a big mistake.
But when he sets out to make a
success of his business for the pur-
pose of accumulating something that
he may provide himself and family
with the comforts of life, educate his
children and provide against old age,
he owes it to himself to get just as
large profits as possible. We want
our cows to take their food and con-
vert it into the biggest possible
amount Of dairy products.
How are we to know? Shall we
select spotted COW, or some other
color? No. Color makes no diff
ference. 1t Is the COW that will take
her feed and convert it into the most
product. How are we to know?
Shall she have sloping shoulders,
large udder, good milk veins and all
that? Yes. But want to know
something more about her.
The cow is piece of machinery to
take our food and convert 1t into
product. We have learned that there
is something about the conformation
of that machine that indicates its
temperament. But outward con-
formation may be right and some
thing wrong with the inner works.
Occasionally we find that some Of
these cows have the right conforma-
tion, and not the ability. Go lit
tie farther.
It's like the horse. When the man
was looking for the fastest horse, he
picked out Dan Patch because he was
built right. How fast could he 60
was asked. You could not tell, but
there is one way you can tell. Get
I'D behind that horse and drive 1t.
That's common ordinary horse sense.
Apply the same horse sense to this
proposition of the dairy COW.
Keeping Tab.
In the matter of production. When
you feed that COW. know what she is
paying you for it. The common ordi-
nary diaryman can be his own clerk,
you don't need bookkeeper, that Is
all nonsense.
never had bookkeeper and never
spent such great lot of time with
pencil What time | have spent has
paid me best in the dairy proposition.
Once In 10 days weigh the milk,
morning and night. Multiply by 10
and we know near enough how much
that COW is giving in milk.
II in the butter business, go
farther and test 1t occasionally, at
least three times year, and better
yet, once a month, to find out how
much fat is in the milk so you may
know the value ofsit Then you must
know about the feed. 1t don't take
much time.
20 in the barn when the COW is
being fed and pick up the hay and
weigh it. From that to another one
and so on. know the value OF
that per ton, and 1t only takes me
short time to know the value. Will
the man feed the same? don't
know. He may feed little more
or less, but have the average feed.
I will do the same with corn stover
and the ensilage. For the grain l
use a small measure and know how
much that will hold and what 1t
weighs. Over each cow Is file, l,
2, 8, 4, and s, that shows how many
each COW is to be fed. Thus | know
what II Ia costing me to feed.
Does 1t Pay?
The question the men always ask,
docs 1t pay?" Two young men in
my county were dairying, one on one
side of the road, the other ON the
other side They were told not to go
It blind, but to know what they were
doing. 1t appealed to one young
man. He bought scale and tester
and paid IS for the two. He took
time enough to weigh and test the
milk.
At the end of the year he knew
very nearly what every COW was do
ing from his record of feed and
what they had paid In for it. The
other man said If he fed his cows it
was all the time he had. What was
the result?
After three years, one got $50
pounds Of butter per COW, and the
other got 200 per COW. Which got
the ESQ? 1t was the man who got
rid OF his poor cows. The other one
had the same chance to do that work,
h,,t did NIT wont tn do II Ono pot