The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1916-11-23

later sold at from IS to 40 cents per
pound, the SKINNED milk for 80 cents
a gallon and the buttermilk for Is
cents a gallon. .. VIZ.
Following the visit to the dairy
building, Mr. Jackson conducted his
visitor to the cow barn. He is milk
ing fourteen COWS at present and the
COWS are yielding an average of two
and one-half gallons of milk daily.
Of course in the spring and summer
the yield is we'll above three gallons.
Adequate pasture is provided for
the mixers, all of which are Jerseys,
the dairyman's experience thus far
having convinced him that the Jer-
sey is the best dairy cow. A pure
bred Jersey bull has recently been
added to his herd. which includes
twenty.nine head in all. Mr. Jackson
is keeping close tab on his cows. If
certain animals production of milk
begins to decrease he increases her
feed. If there is still no change in
the quantity and quality of her milk,
to use his own expression, / let
somebody else have that cow
Corn stover. in Mr. Jackson's
opinion, is the very best roughness
for COWS. His corn crop this year is
fairly good land he has his barn lofts
already well filled with the shredded
corn and considerable more to shred.
He has sown several acres in GRIM
son clover and vetch ard has 6 good
stand. He is constantly expanding
his pasture land. He has grown cot
ton this year on an acre patch near
his cow barns, which patch last year
was used as cow lot. The only fer
tilizer used on the patch was ma
nure. He is expecting 20 gather over
bale of cotton from the acre plot
and has already picked 800 pounds
of seed cotton. 1t is his intention to
SOW this cotton land in alfalfa when
all the cotton has been picked, and
although he has never grown any al
falfa, he is alive to its value and will
devote several acres to the legume
this fall.
1t is not necessary to feed cows
on cotton seed meal and hulls. Mr.
Jackson's experience with cows has
thus far taught him. Cotton seed
hulls are nothing but filler and one
which would be expensive at 80
cents per 100 pounds. Peavine hay,
corn stover, crimson clover and vetch
are much more nutritious and cheap
err. Instead of cotton seed meal, Mr.
Jackson gives his cows we'll known
dairy feed, but not much of it. He
claims this dairy feed, which is man.
ufactured by a Spartanburg con-
Germ, to be much cheaper and more
satisfactory in every respect, espec-
tally for young cows. He has one
cow, twenty-seven years old, which
gives two and one.half gallons of
milk daily. He feeds her on cotton
seed hulls as filler for the simple
reason that she can more easily d.
gest them than other filters. But
with this patriarchal cow. like the
rest, dairy feed is substituted for
cotton seed meal. He estimated that
his COWS cost him between ST and So
each per month.
Talking of his dairying enter
prise Mr. Jackson said: I have mere.
ly made start in this direction and
am adding to my equipment by de-
grees. have about $500 worth OF
wire fencing on my farm now.
first built a one.room house and had
only two or three cows and used
! little steam engine to run the small
churn had. Later | bought a new
churn, a new separator and a gaso-
line engine. bought more cows and
decided to raise a few beef cattle
also. | have made additions to my
dairy building and if the business