Evening star., 1915-03-27

much larger than we could possibly
use at home, but 1t wouldn't be muci
trouble to work the surplus UP int
butter, and our friends in town will
gladly buy all the butter We have &c
offer at top-of -the-market prices. The
by-product-skim milk and buttermiiR
could be fed with advantage to botf
chickens and pigs.
Costs Lots for Feed.
The thing that makes us hesitate Is
that we would have to buy feed, ant
at present prices for all kinds of grair
and fodder 1t takes a mighty gooc
cow to show a profit when her prod
uct goes to market. Making butter
and having milk for home use. o.
course, Is a different matter. We nave
enough feed Of one kind and another
to help materially toward the keel
of one COW. but with second ono i
would mean buying all her feed.
We have decided, therefore. that i
we buy another cow she must pe
good one-as good, within practica
limits. as money will buy. It also has
sey Beyond these two points, no de-
cisions have been made. -,
have been in correspondence will
a number of Jersey breeders In VIZ
ginia and Maryland and find that tn
kind Of q cow I want VIII cost iron =
shipping / have had offered me sev
eral well bred heifers fresh with thei,
first calves or soon to come fresh To-
as little as 500. but SITS Is as low al
any one has offered COW that ha!
been through a years official test ant
he raofSteY nf merit. In(
mere fact, of course, that Jerse!
COW or a COW of any other breed Il
registered doesn't guarantee her Vaiu
as a milker. 1t merely certihes tnat ne
dam and sire were such and such AM
mails of specified names and numbers
and that the dam and sire had theil
ancestry registered. But to quan1:
for the register of merit a cow mus
produce a certain amount or quite
fat, measured under an officially super
vised test, during a period or 800 oay
of consecutive milking
Requirements as to Butter.
For Jerseys the required amoun'
ranges from 250.5 pounds for cows tina
are two years old or younger wher
they start the test to $50 pounds fol
cows that are five years old or Older
when the test is started. As these test
are under official supervision. there II
not much chance for dishonest preeo.
er to get for a COW a hlgher latins
than that to which she is entitled. II
is for this reason that we have made W
our minds that II we buy another COW
she must already have won her right u
enter the register Of merit.
one of the cows we have onefee
us for 5000 made an official test VIII
her first calf Of 413 pounds OF SS PEI
cent butter.
This means that she produced during
the wear 351 pounds of butter tat, TO
make which she was forced 70 give
about $500 pounds Of milk. mere
fore, she averaged moro than two eai,
Ions Of milk day for full year. and q
a mighty good record. The Jersey
champion Of the world didn't do SC
very much better. her official recoro
with her first calf being 1850 pounds
ounces Of milk. with 395 POUNDS Ioe
ounces Of butter fat. When she oroke
the worlds record with her fifth calf
however, she gave 1857 pounds ~
ounce. Of milk, testing 999 pounds ~
ounces Of fat, which would make l,lfe
pounds ounces Of commercial outter
No Guarantee Of Future.
It doesn't follow that the COW which
is offered us for 5000 would ever come
anywhere near the record OF Sophia
18th. for the two-year old record OF a
COW is not accepted as a very reliable
index as to her future performances
Hundreds Of cows have had better two
year-old records than Sophia made
without accomplishing anything not
able In after years. But heifer that
produced more than 400 pounds OF
butter with her first calf would be .
pretty nice animal to own. ] wouldn't
have to get up any earlier in the morn
ing to milk and feed her than ] Wouit
to milk and feed an old "pennyroyal,
and she probably wouldn't eat any
the excess a common scrub. If she die
the excess food would go to making
milk, SO there would be no complaint
as to her appetite.
But $500 seems a lot OF money 1or
people in our circumstances to invest
in a cow II the foot and mouth dis
ease got her, or she broke into the
garden and foundered on green corn
she would die just as dead as would q
COW that had cost $50. A difference OF
$40 in the chance OF loss In enough
to give any poor man pause
Busy Initiating "Buster."
The Robinsons moved Tuesday into ths
house they have rented less than q mile
from Sunny Knoll. and Jim and Ned have
been busy initiating Buster" the ten.
year-old son. into the mysteries Of coun-
try life. His real name Is Randolph
Spencer Robinson. but he wins tho pseu
donym Of Buster from the fact that HI
carries lot Of weight for age Not only
is Buster Of verdant innocence 60 fal
as rural existence is concerned. but, being
an only child, he has been tenderly nur
tured and carefully shielded from rough
contact with the world. You can imagine
with what Joy Jim and Ned and Bud
Brown hailed his advent. The Robinsoni
are among our best friends, and when
overheard the boys discussing certain
plans ] called then on the carpet and ex
acted q promise that there should be NJ
rough stun" / didn't forbid them hav
ing a little harmless fun with him, fol
IL seemed to me that a certain amour
Of hazins might rebound to "Busters'
lasting benefit
1t has kept me busy looking the othe
way to avoid having guilty knowledge o
some OF the stunts they have pulled of
and I was glad to be able to avow limo
cence when Mrs. Robinson complainet
to Jane that Ned had persuaded Buster
to take a dozen eggs from the Robinson
pantry and plant them in the garden /,
order to grow an early crop of chickens
Whom Was the Joke onp