South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-03
ASKS DAIRYMEN
To SAVE THEIR
HE|FER CALVES
County Agent Urges Farmers
to Join Campaign to Con-
serve the Dairy.
Ry John S. Bordner.

Of dairy products-both conditions
tending toward economic ruin to the
man who milks the COWS have
brought about unprecedented changes
in the producing end of the dairy
business.
Authorities on dairyins all agree
that at least twice as many dairy
cows have gone to the block in our
own country this past year as is
customary in normal times. And
this is not all. there has been a de-
cided decrease i'm the growing of
\ young dairy stock on the farms I'M
our dairy districts.
! The present shortage OF hay and
poor quality of corn, caused by early
! frosts will i'm an probability have "a
further negative influence ON the
disposition of dairymen TO increase
/ their herds.
! While dairy husbandry has never
been considered a type of farming
which will pay fabulous dividends,
! il has always been known 10 pro-
duce good wholesome food. with "A
steady income TO the man who milks
} the cows-though this income at
times fails 10 show a margin for pro-
ct
The man who milks the COWS very
/ logically has the habit OF expecting
no fabulous profits but when econ
omic conditions suddenly present
! themselves where cost of production
Unexpectedly leaps 10 higher and
higher levels while the price TO the
producer for his product Is laggard-
~ advancing. it is quite logical that
many many dairy farmers who with
probably one hired man and fire.
quently none. will check up their ac-
| counts and not being in the habit of
facing such conditions will become
/ panicky and quit the job. and lOgi-
caHy every one who does SO helps TO
create a negative psychological aef-
! feet on the whole dairy business
! hence this word of warning.
4 The world must have dairy pro-
ducts and the world will pay for
dairy products sooner or later.
though apparently very reluctant as
1 il may seem at present.
Every dairyman. therefore. who is
staying i'm the game at present, if
| for no other reasons than those
purely patriotic-and let me say
/ here that there are thousands and
many times thousands who put in ! S
! hours per day milking COWS and
filling silos. these days who are
/ sticking To the jon with no other
motive than that purely patriotic.
1 knowing that their patriotism will
never he heralded abroad but that
the starving babies of war-cursed
Europe will some day sing their
praises.
To these brave men their good
wives and children who haze been
milking COWS at an absolute loss for
/ the past two years let me say this.
/ viz. save all your heifer calves, be
cause now and for a long time after
/ this old world or ours again assumes
normal condition of life there will
] he "A shortage OF dairy cattle.
! Extend your vision for a moment
J beyond the horizon of your immed-
/ late activities and YOU viii be fired
/ with "a patriotism far extending your
present supply. 1t takes three years
TO make COWS of the calves Of today.
I Millions OF COWS have gone to the
block In all the warning countries
and many of the neutral countries
have not been less fortunate. in say
! ing their stock. These countries
must all be restockel.
And then there are those from
among your owS number who have
been content 10 sell the goose. that
| layed the golden egg as they follow
: ed the line OF least resistance viz.
the fabulous prices Of the bread and
other grains These, too, will again
seek breeding stock.
As dairy farmers in st. Joseph
county let Us cooperate therefore. in
keeping on our farms all the good
I heifer calves. There will be de
mand for these heifers at more than
! beef prices for beef animals of like
age. in The course of the next three
years and the cost OF production
Will be much less.
: am also convinced that there
are farmers who could do no better
/ this winter than 10 20 into the calf
business, 1. e, buy the surplus heifer
I calves from their neighbOrs and
grow them by giving them special
care and next spring have them
ready for the pasture lot.
Any farmer who has good heller
calves for sale this fall and winter
should notify the county agricultural
| agents office and a home will be Sc
cured for these calves on some other
I farm Likewise. those who have the
leisure 10 properly care for calves
this winter and desire 10 purchase
/ calves should list their names with
. the same Office
Dairymen. let US not forget that
the patient dairy COW is the foster
mother OF man and should therefore
j be cared for even in the times OF
war not only as war emergency
| measure. but that in the great era
OF peace. which Will follow. she may
Z be on hand 20 help in feeding back
TO health the millions OF war in
vallds IN our own and other lands