The courier-index., 1917-08-03
DIPPING INCREASES
The MILK YIELD
MANY FARMERS DECEIVED BY
TEMPORARY FALLING OFF,
SAYS MR.. WELTY

The Arkansas Profitable Farming
Bureau of the Little Rock Board Of
Commerce yesterday received letter
saying that D. c. Welty, agricultural
commissioner of the Missouri Pacific
railroad. will return here Monday TO
continue his investigation of the dali
ry situation in and around Little
Rock. Mr.. Welty was compelled to
interrupt his work here to go to Chi
cago, where he has been delivering
lectures at the Chicago Record-Her-
AIDS land exposition. His subject
has been the opportunities of Arkan-
sas as live stock state.
During his previous investigation
here, Mr.. Welty said he found that
many farmers are Directing to dipping
their cows because of mistaken be-
lief that it decreases their milk yield.
Mr.. Welty said that sometimes cows
are frightened by the first dipping,
and this has the effect of decreasing
their milk yields for a day or two
after the dipping. But he said that
the cows soon become accustomed to
dipping, and that usually on the third
or fourth dipping there is no appre-
ciable decrease of milk.
On the contrary, he says. he has
proven on his own dairy farm and by
the experience Of many other farmers
that dipping a COW will greatly in
crease her milk yield. He said that
it has been proven repeatedly that it
is impossible for COW afflicted with
cattle ticks to produce the quantity
of milk which she is capable.
Quotes From Government Bulletin.
He quoted from bulletin recently
issued by the Little Rock office of
the Bureau of Animal Industry of
the United States Department of An
imal Industry:
dipping cows to kill fever ticks
increases the milk yield,' says the
bulletin. ''This is proved in actual
experiment and in the results obtain
ed in thousands of dairy herds, the
owners of which are thorough believ-
ers in tick eradiction by the dipping
vat method. Careful records prove
that lightly infested cows produce
1876 per cent less milk than cows that
are free from the cattle tick. Cows
heavily infested produce an average
of 42.4 per cent less milk than SINH
lar cows free from ticks. This was
established by records of yields kept
over considerable periods for ticky
herds before they were dipped, and
for the same herds after they had
been dipped.
Here is an actual record from a
dairy herd. A dairyman in heavily
infested territory dipped his cattle.
One week after dipping his herd of AZ
cows gave 10 gallons of milk day
from the start. The milk sold for 35
cents gallon and he got $3.50 day
more from his herd from one dipping.
He has begun to feed his cows in
stead of ticks.
TT is natural that for two or
three days after a mich animal has
been driven a few miles and gone
through the excitement of dipping.
tht her milk flow will temporarily
fall off slightly. The actual figures
show that for two or three days there
may be reduction of 1915 per cent,
or about eight-tenths of a quart of
milk for an eight-quart COW. In three
to five days the temporary falling off
disappears and if the dairyman would
keep records over any long period he
would find that getting rid of ticks
was increasing his actual milk pro-
duction from Is to AZ per cent"