Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-09


help in fighting poisonous range
plants livestock diseases and pests
and to consider market and economic
problems and with the hearty COON
ieration and understanding of the cat
tiemen solve them. It's TO be a get
tosether' confab, free from technical
tiles and devoted to practical discuss
sion and work. DR. Ladd has an idea
that the college and station can add
millions to the wealth of the safe
and enrich the stockmen, il the lat
ter will only let them. 1t is proba-
BILE that the forestry men will be
asked TO join the conference as they
have been studying the range prob
lens with in the forests and W. c.
Barnes, the head of the grazing dlvi-
sion, is an old New Mexico cowpunch-
er and legislator, who never misses a
cattlemen's convention unless his
work in Washington, ID. G., pre-
vents it.
The Cow Is Lady
That the COW Is Il lady and should
be treated as such was the consensus
of opinion Of both scientific students
as web as practical dairymen in tneir
discussions this forenoon Some of
the practical men repeated this fact
with some acerbity. Capt Thomas
Franklin, Of I'll Paso, who looks after
! the welfare of some 500 head of dairy
cattle, said for instance, in talk
that had plenty of ginger in 1t. The
cows does not always agree with the
chemist. You must treat her as an
! individual COW is lady and a
mother and should be treated as such.
! If your COW gives more milk when Wis
/ itors take off their hats to her. make
every one who enters the stable OBJ
serve that civility. The man who does
not respect motherhood has no bust
ness to own q dairy COW. | hate to
see u cowpunchor enter the dairy bus
/ mess, because he has become accus-
toned to treating cows with disre-
spect The man who does not want
/ to work 1855 days each year should
stay out of the dairy business Cap
tain Franklin, who has seen many
years of army life in China, the Phil
/ ippines and the United States referred
] TO DR.. Wiley as IAN eminent fakir -
and incidentally dwelt upon the value
Of the work of the agricultural col
lege, the experiment station and farm
crs' week. Il have learned much "
/ he said. MY weeks stay has been
very profitable to me and any one Of
/ the lessons l learned more than re-
paid me for coming here. This New
Mexico Farmers congress has been
an unqualified success and am COM
ing back next year" Captain Frank
| lin disclaims being an orator, in fact
said that this was the first tim. he
ever tried to address a congress like
this, and yet. his eloquence nearly
took the roof off Hadley hail and
there was laughter and applause ev-
cry ten seconds THE eye of the
master fattens the cattle" was his
text. THE increase in the pail goes
hand in hand with the Improvement
Of type in the herd. ! for my part fat
vor the big COW ana the big horse
! and / breed for size There are three
ways to improve the herd: Better
care better breed and cullmg Al
/ falfa is the best feed and the best for
age in this section as well as the main
feed but it is not the only feed. Corn
| Is too high priced and we cannot at
ford to buy corn in FL Paso, but
| find kaffir corn, milo maize at SIZE
hundrcdweight, dried pulp at SIS
ton, rice polish at $50 Il ton. and
wheat bran, excellent balance fol the
alfalfa diet, giving one pound of grain
for every four pounds Of milk yield. =
Captain Franklin gave some wonder
full figures of production from his
herd as whole as well as from sew
eral COWS He insisted on personal at
tention to the business, on cleanli
ness, on plenty Of fresh water, as he
found that a Holstein COW will dring
sixteen gallons of water in fourteen
hours He insisted that dairying is a
big mans job and cannot be delegated
or unoaded on the women. He finds
1t essential for every owner of Il cow
to subscribe to a good daily paper, and
gave a number Of simple formulas
and directions he found valuable in
his work. In conclusion he cautioned
everyone to he honest with the COW.
/ You may fool your fell0wman, but
you can't beat your cow was his
parting remark
County Agent Paul Il. Barber of
Las Cruces, who is helping to trans
form the Meslla valley with his adj
vocacy of carrying and diversified
crops. took a shot at the pessimists
who declare that farming IN New
Mexico and especially in the irrigated