The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-04-22

Murine Cowan's record and produces
1888 pounds of butter. and another
New Jersey llolstien COW, Mabel 5, gis
Korndyke made nm Official record oi b
pounds of butter fat equivalent to So
pounds OF butter in one day
One good dairy cow properly cared
for al d bred to good dairy 81 Q
and her produce inteliigently handled
for ten years will pay for good farm
with the dairy products sold and leave
dairy herd on hand worth more than
the best 1850 acres in the panhandle OF
Oklahoma.
sHEEP NOTES.
No animal on the farm will return a
higher net profit on the amount invest
ed than flock of good sheep, and II
there were as many sheep in the Pam
handle of Oklahoma as there should be
farmers here would have no cause to
complain about Russian Thistles tear
ing down their fences for the sheep
would take care of the thistles in a way
to make them paying weed while
they lasted at least. With the thistle
under control there would he no excuse
for not raising hogs, as the only excuse
our farmers make now is that the this
ties prevent woven wire fences. |
would not expect our farmers to do
everything at once, but livestock farm
ing Is the solution OF the farmers
problems in the Panhandle counties.
and the sooner we get started right in
this business the better. The days Of
the scrub is numbered whether it be
horses. COWS, hogs, sheep or poultry
There is no excuse for them to exist
any longer than il taxes to eliminate
them. 1t will not take many years to
eradicate the scrub il we but use pure
bred sres to head our lloeks and
herdp.
Ii one farmer or even a half dozen
farmers cannot buy the quality need
ed in sire then organize co-opera-
tive society with dozen or more farm
ers, enough to make use of the entire
services of pure bred sire and begin
at the foundation and build up.
II you cannot buy registered COW /,
buy registered heifer and with good
care in a few years you can have reg
istered herd, even by using pure sires
only IN six crosses you have strain
that lie 9sIa per cent pure. Remember
the up to date farmers motto; THE
Best is none too good" and get the best
your means will permit, and il that is
not the highest quality in the begin
ming as fast as your means permit in
crease the quality as we'll as the guam
tity OF your live stock and make your
own market for all crops except your
wheat, and In case the price OF wheat
is not what IL should be or near the
dollar mark feed il and return the bulk
OF the plant food back to the soil where
| IL belongs.
The barn-yard manure from the
dairy yard is worth from Sl2 to-$l8 per
COW per year. The manure from the
horse barn is worth from $l5 to S20 per
horse per year, and the manure from
the sheep and poultry pens is worth
quite good deal more per ton than
the horse manure.
| Nine-tenths of the farmers in the
Panhandle leave their manure in piles
in the lots and in the barns, causing
the Scratches and Grease Heel among
the horses, dirty filthy cows aud un-
healthy milk, as we'll as furnishing the
only breeding places for HES.
1t is not enough for farmers to raise
flies to sggravate his stock and make il
impossible for him to keep them in
good condition. They carry the Ty-
phoid germ, the Tuberculosis germ, the
Cholera InfaDtum germ, and other dis
ease germs to the house aud give these
diseases TO members Of the family and
cause the larger per cent OF all the
deaths on the farm. The answer | re.
ceiVe when ask farmers why they al.
low these things is. nine times out o.
ten. II don't have enough manure Il
justify buying manure spreader anC
II is too hard job to haul out ans
spread by hand"