Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-10-30

farmer be privileged TO consider this
Remember, he is located outside of
the dairy district or is normally in
beef cattle producing territory. What
| kind of improved bulls will be avail
able to which he may breed his cows
! He hasn't enough cows TO Justify his
| owning Il purehred bull. The chances
/ are that one of his neighbOrs who owns
! large farm and has a beef cattle herd
also owns a purebred beef bull to
which he might breed his cows for the
! asking, or ut most for n small service
/ fee. The chances are also that there
! isn't reputable Jersey bull in the en-
( tire community. There are Jersey bulls
there, no doubt. but of the kind which
have shamnfully Slandered the breed
Normally, we may expect all such COM
munities to introduce, if they have not
already done so, purebred bulls of one
Of the beer breeds because they have
an insistent demand for better calves
and without Il market for dairy prod
ucts there is little incentive toward
bringing in good pUrebred dairy bulls.
On one condition only should the
Jersey now be entitled to a home in
such community, tOWit: that suhi-
cient farmers of that community be.
come interested in dairying to make
profitable the establishment of cream
route and the cooperative ownership
Of tirst-class Jersey bull. There is Il
wonderful opportunity for such devcl-
opment. But 50 long us the predomi-
mating interest of the community con-
times for beef cattle, due to its locu-
ton outside the range of an eStah-
lished market for dairy products, the
average farmer would much better pat.
tern his cattle operations after the
best practice of the majority of his
neighborS adding his quota each year
to the cOmmunity's crop of good beef
calves-as result of breeding his
cows TO the community pure-bred beef
type bull or to bull of the same breed
as the majority of his neighbors are
using
Since it is more milk that he needs,
should he not buy HOlstein GOVT
This Is the question that many such
farmers are asking, and the great rec
ords of milk production which the
HOlstefn is continually adding to her
already enviable list are enough to
make them give her serious considera-
ton. But these very same farmers |
have really never known what it is to
feed COW. a few nubbinS or Il hand. |
ful of bran and little salt is Consid. |
cred a liberal compensation at milking
time. At other times she is free to |
choose her own ration, in the pasture
or outside. The Ilolstein was never |
used to this, for along with her Won
dcrful milk-giving capacity she has de-
veloped remarkable appetite and she
produces milk directly in proportion to
the extent to which this appetite is az.
peased. She has been brought to us
from her native home of luxuriant pas
lures and an abundance of Succulent |
soiling, Stage and root crops, and these
must be supplied her still in salts
factory measure; else she will prove
a disappointment.
The question l raise is, will this ay
erage farmer be warranted in bring
ing upon himself this additional neceS-
sity for supplying the extra amount OF
feed demanded by HOlStein COW? |
doubt it very seriously. He doesn't
keep enough cattle all told to justify
II silC. He is rarely warranted in pro-
viding much grain for the mature cows
Of the farm and will never be, except
there develop an accessible market for
surplus dairy products. But why
should he not keep one real milk COW,
giving from to 10 gallons of milk
day rather than 3 or cows? For the
reason that, from an economic stand
point, he is not keeping cows to pro
luce milk, but to furnish him a MAJ.
iet for the cheap coarse rOughage and
pasture of his farm which can not be
utilized to advantage by other live
stock. Incidentally, these cows should
produce enough milk for his family in
to that requirpdby their calves
The ShorthOrn is not the only beef
COW which will produce more milk
han her calf requires, but it stands
10 the credit of certain ShOrthOrn
breeders that they have recognized the
farmers increasing need for Il family
,ow and have made selections toward
hat end with remarkable success.
other beef breeders will do well 10
recognize similar necessity as re-
cards the future popularity of their
.attle for the bulk of the beef supply
If the future must be produced from
he average farmers herd rather than
rom that of the ranchman. The folly
If. the average breeder of beef cattle
coated 50 that he must depend mainly
lpon the small farmer who surrounds
lin for Il market for his surplus, is
'asily apparent when he disregards
his fact and boasts that he'd be glad
( his cows didn't give as much milk as
hey do for a period Immediately fol
owing ,calving. He had better begin
light now encouraging all he can an
Increase in the milking capacity of his
ows, for some individuals of all of
he best breeds have gotten 50 far
rom il that they will rp0uirp pncOuI- |