El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-08
ITO CALL MEETING Of ST0CKRAISERS.

bic of what it was this year In fact,
I each year, the attendance has doubled.
It is planned to hold similar meetings
in other parts Of the state during the
year DR.. George E. Ladd. the presi-
dent has such far reaching plans, that
; the work of the school. the experiment
station and the extension projects, will
! become. il is believed, so invaluable to
1 the state, that they will get the fullest
measure of public and legislative sup
port and win help to make New Mexico
one Of the richest states in the union.
Dairymen had an inning at the New
Mexico Farmers congress. not only the
man with a large dairy herd. but also
the city dWeller with simply a family
COW. II seemed strange to observe sriz-
zled old farmers with notebooks in
their hands and taking notes of lee
ture, but that's what occurred. But
there were not only farmers in the au-
dience- A Presbyterian clergyman arose
and explained what ails his COW and
was told what to do with her.
IN the afternoon. the crowd was at
the dairy farm of the college and be-
sides viewing the fine herds, learned
how to judge the good points of cat
tie and watched a postmortem on a COW
that had been inoculated with tubercu-
lin.
Say @Cow Is n Lady,
That the COW is a LADY, and should
be treated as such was the consensus
OF opinion of both scientific students
as well as practical dairymen in their
discussions. Some of the practical
men repeated this. Capt Thomas /
Franklin. of FL Paso. who looks after
the welfare of some 500 head of dairy
cattle, said: The COW does not always
agree with the chemist You must treat
her as an individual. A COW is a lady
and mother and should be treated as
such If your COW gives more milk
when visitors take off their hats To
her, make every one who enters the sta
Bile observe that civility. The man who
does not respect motherhood has no
business TO own a dairy COW. The man
who does not want to work 365 days
each year should stay out Of the dairy
business"
FnvOrs the Big Cow.
The eye of the master fattens the
cattle" was Capt. Franklin's text. The
increase in the pail goes hand in hand
with the improvement of type in the
herd for my part favor the big COW
and the big horse and I breed for size. /
There are three ways to improve the |
herd: Better care, better breed and 1
culling.' Alfalfa is the best feed and |
the best forage in this section as well !
as the main feed. but it is not the only /
feed, Corn is too high priced and we /
cannot afford to buy corn in Ell Paso,
but I find kaffir corn. milo maize at ,
S1-15 a hundredweight, dried beet pulp 4
at SIS a ton. rice polish at $50 ton, i
and wheat bran, excellent balance for \
the alfalfa diet. giving one pound of |
grain for every four pounds of milk /.
weld Capt Franklin gave some won !
derful figures of production from his
herd as a whole as well as from sew
eral cows He insisted on personal at
tention 10 the business. on cleanliness,
on plenty of fresh water as he found
that Holstein COW Will drink Ie gall
Ions of water in II hours. He insisted
that dairying is a big mans job and
cannot be delegated to or unloaded on
the women He finds it essential for