Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-03-22
THE H-F ASSOCIATION


Delegation Of Farmers and Dairy
men Visited ''Winterthur''
CATTLE INDUSTRY GROWING
A large delegation of the farmers
and dairymen visited Winterthur Farms
on Thursday to attend the bi-monthly
meeting of the Holstein-F Freslan Breed
ers' Association of Delaware.
The pure bred cattle industry is be-
coming to be one of the greatest assets
to the farmers of this section, and
more interest is manifested at each suc-
ceeding meeting. On almost every
farm here there are one or more pure
bred Holsteins, while many of the
farmers have their entire herds pure
bred, having gradually weeded out the
graded cattle. and installed pure bred
cattle in their place. That the idea is q
paying one is shown by the prices re-
ceived for calves from pure bred cows.
On the last of the dairymen's tour of
the county, when the farmers of Kent
and Sussex counties, were the guests
of the Middletown dairymen, and were
taken on tour of the county, visiting
several of the farms where pure bred
cattle are kept, Paul B. Messick had
four bull calves in his barn. all of
which were sired by his prize bull King
Pontiac Veeman Beets. The four calves
have been sold at prices ranging from
$125 to $175, according to the milk rec
ords of the mothers. Mr.. Messick and
James S. Moore, visited Michigan one
year ago. and bought two carloads of
pure bred cows and heifers and 40 far
the venture has proved paying one.
All the cows have come into profit, and
had fine calves.
MIR. Moore, who recently bought the
old Thomas Murphy Farm, two miles
west of Middletown, has erected fine
dairy barn. and a tile siIo, and pIars to
double the size of his barn next year to
accommodate herd of cattle twice the
size of his present herd. In the car
load which he brought in from Michigan
is heifer three years old, which re-
Gently gave 70 pounds of milk daily for
seven days on an official test, after
weaving her first calf.
Charles S. Meyers, former Della
ware College athlete, who left college
after the death of his step father, J.
P. Algire, to attend to the agricultural
interests left by him, has recently sold
to ex-Judge Daniel A. Hastings, the
Appleton farm two miles east of this
town and will in the future 1evote his
entire energy to the dairy business.
Mr.. Meyers owns the Lockwood farm
of so acres adjoining this town on the
Odessa road. He has built an up-to-
date COW barn, and plans to keep herd
of twenty pure bred cattle. He has
under construction, tile silo, of ca
pacity of 100 tons.
Mrs. George H. Janvier, who for
years operated milk route here, has
the business. and is de-
veloping herd of pure bred cattle.
At the sale of Charles Hanratty, near
Clayton. two weeks ago. she purchased
six cows at prices ranging from $500 to
$500.
Among the other breeders of pure
bred cattle. here are Nathaniel J. Will
liams, Herman D. Conner, James S.
Lester NJ. Naylor, Elwood
Naylor, Baynard G. Marvel. Jehu AL
free, George H. Burge, Lee Pennington,
William Bryson. John D Reynolds, and
John C. Green, all of whom have en-
tire or partial herds of pure bred Hol-
stems.
The awakening to the value of pure
bred cattle came about here. within the
past three years, and was the outcome
of the starting of the Milk Testing
Associations.
The recent experiment of County
Farm Agent Bausman in organizing a
boys calf club, has also stimulated the
pure bred industry. Calves from
Michigan were sold to boys on farms
last spring at prices ranging from SIS
to SIPS. Two sons of George H. Burge,
a tenant farmer, living near here, each
bought a calf, one for $110, and the
other for $120. The boys sold their
calves recently and more than doubled
their money.
The Farm Bureau, through James $.
Moore, president, has recently begun
to have pure-bred bull on
ovorv f0rm