St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-02-19
FARM NEWS
WHY MOT MORE HoLsTEIN
CATTLE IN SOUTH?

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raising CT Holstein cattle, is hard
to understand. Every champion
ship record among dairy cows in
the United States in the past p
years has been held by a COW of the
Holstein breed. But Louisiana
dairymen are strong for the DER
seys and even the state dairymens
association seems to urge the Jer-
seys into more common use. The
principal object of tiaify;ng,
the writer understands, is to get as
much milk and butter-fat from the
cows as possible. The records
show that the Holsteins are far SUI
perior in that particular.
The present worlds Champion
dairy cow is a Holstein ard iter pom
derous name is "Ormsby Jane Sc
gis Aaggie.' Her record is the sew
en- day test. in competition with
thousands Of others, is 72i.4 pounds
Of milk containing a little more
than 35 f-2 pounds Of b%utter-fat,
which when churned made over IA
pounds Of commercial butter. She
is owned by the Pine Grove Farm
at Elma Center, N. Y. The previous
record was held by TX. P. Pontiac
Lass also a H~olstein, producing
$3.50 pounds of milk in seven days
which contained about 35 Is
pounds of butter fat. All worlds
champion cows since 1894, in the
seven-day tests, have been HoI-
stems. A test of 45,t45 cows of the
the Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey and
Ayrshire breeds were held in 1913
to determine how many were pro-
ducing more than 20 pounds of but
ter fat per week. The result: p
CPS Holstein, 8 Jerseys, 35 Guern-
seys, and 8 Ayrshires. The highest
record in that same test We're:
Holsteins IS Ia pounds b~utter-fat;
Jerseys 20 10 pounds and Guern-.
seys about "a t-2 pounds. The
Ayrshire highest was a little over
% f-2 pounds.
So if its milk and butter we
want, it would seem that the 'Iol-I
stems r to be preferred. People
In Louisiana who select the Jer-
seys in preference to the Holsteins,
do so from personal choice. The
Jersey is a "prettiera cow, and is
more graceful than the Holstein,
but her milk and butter is no bet
ter and she does not give near as
much of it as the Holstein. Then
why SO many Jerseys in Louisiana
and SO few Holsteins2 4 great malfy
people claim that the record
breaking Holsteins are few and far
between, that the average Holstein
does not give as much milk and
b~utter-fat as the average Jersey.
This impression is WRONG. Go up
into the East, West and North and
visit the really big dairy and count
the cows yourself, noting the !
breeds they are nearly all solid
for Helsteins. Then it is claimed
that Jerseys do better in this far
southern country than the Hol-
stems. But the dairy experts sayI
if a Holstein is fed with as much
as the Jersey and is given just
as good a place to Craze, rest and
sleep as the Jersey she will give
her best-Which the record show, is
far above the best a Jersey pro-
duces"
But you can't get away from the
fact that a Jersey is a fine breed.
The Jerseys are almost universal
ly used in the South; they seem
well adapted to the South. A man
who enters the dairy business
wants to get the kind Of stock that
he likes. IT is said a ma will
never succeed if he tries to raise
live stock not of his own personal
liking. Therefore, if a farmer pre-
fers Jerseys to HoIsteins, it would
be his n%ear-ruin to try to raise
Holsfoirs But the fact remains
that the Holstein gives more milk
and b~utter-fat than the Jersey, has
held all worlds championships, and
will thrive just as well in Louis
lana as the Jerseys. The only OBJ
lection to the Holstein is that she
is a bigger COW than the Jersey,
eats up a little more feed takes up
a little more square inches in the
barn-hut with all this, she gives
a great deal more milk and butter
than the Jersey. Let's organize a
Louisiana Holstein Breeders asso-
citation.
SHELTER YOUR FARM MA
CHINERY
The careless farmer is the i'm
plement dealers best friend. He
wastes more machinery than he
wears out.
Say what you will, one of the
most characteristic failings Of the
American farmer is neglect Of ma
chinefy. In one particular case
there was $1,000 worth Of machin-
cry distributed over the barnyard.
Near the driveway stood a steam
tAfeshing machine only two years