St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-07-07
OUR SPECIAL EDITION
Comments of Contemporaries On The
Paper and It's Showing.

ments published by any newspaper IL
Vermont in years is issued this week
by the st. Johnsbury Caledonian, IL
pages being devoted to the purebred
cattle in Caledonia county. The pages
are embellished with many attractive
illustrations, showing fine herds and
Iglimpses of the farms where they are
owned. The articles will be a reveal
ton to many in showing the progress
siveness of the Vermont farmer, as in
the one small county 1,433 head OF
lpurebred cattle are owned, valued
Iconservatively at $234 Ats, or at an
average price of $1,000, including
the young stock. There is a growing
tendency not only in Caledonia county
but throughout the state, to breed
fine cattle, and the dairying industry
is no longer conducted on the hit-or-
miss method, as the work of the num-
terous cow-testing associations is go
ing a long way toward making dairy
ing an exact science. The successful
farmer of the future will know just
what is doing like the successful
business man in industrial and mer-
camille nes.-BrattlebOro RefOrmer.
The issue of the st. Johnsbury
Caledonian this week was a most
notable one. Many extra pages were
devoted to the fine herds of cattle in
it's county-the first edition of the
kind in the history of Vermont. 1t
shows that the farmer is coming in
| to his own and the newspapers have
recognized the fact. Typographical
| ly, like everything from that office, it
was fine specimen of the "art pre-
servative. -Morrisville Messenger.
Through an illustrated supplement
printed by the ST. Johnsbury Gale
DOMAIN this week, one gathers the i'm
preston that Caledonia county and
the territory Immediately contiguous
thereto is well up in blooded cattle,
if not at the front rank of the whole
state. The contemporary has done
good stroke of work for the cattle
interests of it's section.-Barre
Times.
The ST. Johnsbury Caledonian's
splendid supplement illustrating the
pure bred cattle interests of Gale
donia county made so large a bundle,
it was mistaken for one of those big
Sunday newspapers in it's wrapper
and was neglected for time. Many
people will be surprised to learn that
Caledonia county has no less than
l,433 head of pure-bred cattle, valu-
ed at 1924, AIS, or an average of
$163.63. 1t costs no more to raise
a good animal than a poor one, and
the best is always the most profitable
from every point of view.-Burling-
ton Free Press.
The announcement that none but
Vermont cattle would appear at the
state fair was incorrect. Exhibits
will be shown from Maine and New
Hampshire, providing there is no
outbreak of the foot-and-mouth
disease meanwhile. Judging from
the supplement issued by the st.
Johnsbury Caledonian, Caledonia
county alone could make a very res
pectable exhibit of highly bred cat
tie without going outside.-Rutland
Herald.
Vermont Live Stock.
caledonia county claims to possess
,433 head of pure-bred cattle con-
serVatively valued at $23,475. These
cattle are distributed in ninety-two
nerds, showing that the production
or pure bred cattle is not the work
OF a few wealthy men but is a serious
undertaking of a large number of
practical farmers who cannot afford
TO produce fancy cattle but are pro-
duclng good cattle as a business pro
position. p1o
Some other counties in Vermont
40 DOUBT surpass the Caledonia rec
ord considerably, and the total for
Inc State must be far greater than is
commonly thought Y
Inc hgures we have quoted are
rom the St. Johnsbury Caledonian.
"h!cn prints an elaborate illustrated /,
article on the subject. The largest
nerd of any single breed in the coun-
y contains 12O head and in only one /
jther herd is the hundred mark
With a single breed. There
are four other herds of a single breed
nat number between fifty and seven
y-nVe, eleven herds of from twenty
I've to nifty and fifty-four herds with r
ess than ten head each. This shows
NAT many men have made a small n
beginning, and reveals the probable
W OF a tremendous development in
he production of pure bred cattle.
The Caledonian explains interest 4
ngly the process of breeding. 1t
avs:
The general method of building m
! herd of pure bred cattle is to pur- !
'hase good bull and one or two !
lows and raise the heifer calves.
3ulls are purchased often enough to :
prevent ln-breeding or when further {
Improvement of the herd is desired. !
We give the results of one practical ;
armer in the county who has sue
essfully worked out this plan. At
lrst he bought two pure bred COWS ,
md a bull calf. Since then he has
fought one imported COW and two !
'ull calves to be used as head of his
lerd. The cost of these six animals ,
vas $500. From their get he sold /,
leven COWS for $3.50, three two
heifers for 1925, he esti- :
mates the money received for bull
alves at $1,100 and is confident it
5 not less than this and has herd
low estimated to be worth $4,000.
10 the total live stock produced from :
hese individuals is $6,945. Deduct 4
he original cost of the animals
ought ($8OO) and the net gain is