Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-01-29

am quite safe in saying that the
universal idea of goodness regarding
a dairy COW, is her ability to pro-
duce large amounts of milk and but
ter fat economically. The Good
Book says, that not every one that
says, but those that do shall enter
in, and this idea of doing is getting
more prevalent and is really what
fixes value. The same as the horse
that can trot in two minutes, this
places value upon him; and the man
who goes out to buy dairy indlvld-
uals pays in large measure accord
ing to ability to do. For this rea-
son Cow Testing Associations are
operated. different cattle clubs car
ry on systems of official and semi
official tests, that We may know to
certainty as to their ability.
The long period test is practical
| ly the only reliable test as has
been proven time and again. In a
case in my own vicinity in Cow
Testing Work, one COW started out
making 70 pounds fat in month,
and was Dragged about as the best
cow in the association, but gradually
dropped about 10 pounds fat a
month. Another COW making only
about so pounds fat in her best
month, kept close around this mark
for the entire year, beating the for
mer COW in yearly results by large
margin.
Education, or the early forming
of habit, has much to do with per-
sistency and one should be especial
ly careful the first milking year to
feed literally and treat them kind
lily. to milk carefully and thoroughly
and not discourage the milk giving
functions. If heifer hates the
sight of you, hates to be MIXED, the
chances are that all the feed in the
world would not make a profitable
COW out of her.
When we consider the COW as a
manufacturing institution, taking the
raw materials of the farm, and con-
verting them into the finished prod
uct of milk and butter fat, then we
should consider these points that
make for a profitable, durable ma
chine. These points are constitu
ton. temperament, disposition and
persistency, and 1 believe the order
named is the order of their impor-
lance. Although it really takes the
five points mentioned make whole
COW, if you leave out any one, you
have an imperfect cow and an un'
profitable COW. Some seem to en-
Joy having an Improbable COW
around, saying they have the feed
and the boys do the work and they
can keep them as we'll as not. Very
little progress, however, will be
: made in herds where this condition
exists.
The business of the dairy COW is tc
produce and reproduce, and the man
ner in which she accompllshes these
things stamps her in the profitable
or the Improbable class. To produce
large amounts of milk and butter
fiat requires an abundance of consti
tuition, vitality and strength to car
Try her through, for often her work
lis done under adverse conditions
| and she must also have some re
serve constitutional force for she
must be able to resist Or throw of
disease germs which are so prevalen
in many of the stables where sun
Hight and good ventilation are things
unheard of. Constitution, in large
measure, depends upon the room il
which the heart and lungs are
placed, it should be rOOmy, giving
perfect freedom for these organs tt
perform their functions as the milk
is made by the blood and the blood
is purified by the amount of oxygen
the lungs may pump from the air.
An abundance of nourishing, easily
Idigested food is also an important
bfactor in building up and controlling
constitutional vigor. If the human
body gets weakened, physicians pre-
scribe a diet of easily digested, cas-,
lily assimilated food, so it is the
business of the feeder to watch his
individuals and keep them in a
ihealthful condition.
The conformation also means much
toward the production OF milk, IN