Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-09
Lively Interest Being Shown In
Breeding Cows Rich In
Butter Tests.
DAIRY CATTLE IN co. 5000
The Progressive Farmers will
Be Satisfied With Only
The Best.

Kentuckian show that the average
production of milk and butter fat
per COW in this section isentirely toe
low. A large proportion of cows dc
not produce enough to pay for their
feed at market prices. BY better
attention of cows and better meth.
DDS of herding, it is possible to in
crease considerably the average pro.
duction which would mean not only
the placing of dairy farming on a
profitable besis but a more plentiful
supply of an important clsss Of good
products.
Dairying has now come to be of
considerable Importance, in Christian
county and wherever one farmer has
been induced to adopt imported
equipments and methods the infu-
ence of his ex ample has spread in all
the surrounding community.
Christian county farmers and dai.
rymen ere milking about 5000 cows
and here in Hopkinsville is an outlet
for the produce of many tmes-that
number, for the local creamery Offers
to buy all the butter fat produced
within 100 miles of Hopkinsville.
The present practice by a majority
of Christian county farmers of ex-
elusive grain and tobacco growing
will lead to sure failure, for history
fails to record an instance where
soil was so fertile that it could indefi-
nitely support sys EN- of cropping
like ours and our unity must yield
to system of handling which will
restore to the soil m st of the fer
tility that is removed in the harvest
ed crop. No system of agriculture
can hope to survive under methods
which gradually but surely are i'm
loverishing the soil. One of the
very best as well as the most profit
able ways to maintain fertility is to
feed the bu k of the crop to live
stock on the farm and apply the ma
nure to the fields.
AS to the kind of live stock to be
used, that depends upon the prefer
ence of the farmer, adaptability to
locality and the markets. In favor
able years the returns for grain and
tobacco farming are big, but averag-
ed on a series of years the inc me is
unreliable and compared with the
pecarious returns from this source
the dairy herd yields an income eve
ry day in the year.
| Kaffir, milo, sorghum and corn are
/ most reasonably certain as a forage
crop and can be depended upon,
practically on every farm in Oh is
tian and adjoining counties, and
when it comes to an all the year
feature, we have that too for stock
can run out ten months in the year
Compared with the CHI dairy section
of Wisconsin,, where stock is housed
and dry fed for six months in the
year on land worth 5000 an acre
c ristian county with her many ad
vantages in climate and cheap land:
should become a richer county. fol-
the profits are doubled.
Every farmer should establish Z
dairy herd, for no matter how la q
or how small, it will be the means Of
raising the standard of living anC
improving the citizenship because o.
the steady. dependable income from
the sale of cream. The keeping of
small dairy herd need not interfere
with the growing of many crops
and total loss may be converted
into a partial failure because of th'
dairy herd.
OF all the breeds of milk produc
ing cattle. it is conceded that tn
pure bred Jersey is the most profit
able for this country. While TIL
breed has most marked influence
there is also considerable variation
! of the individuals in each breed. |
must be admitted that large per
centage of practical farmers believ
they can take poor or average cow
and by good feed as management
greatly increase the quntity or quail
ity of milk produced. This is a mis-
take. for while the flow of milk ma.
be increased for short time it can
Iuok L.. ...os,k.suaI nor can fha irv,