The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1921-11-17

what was left, comfortably with the
aid Of only members of his family
ne engaged no outside help but paid
farm wages to every member Of the
family and then cleared S31OO above
all expenses. In 1918 the farm earn.
ed $9,925 at 20 to rs cents per gallon
for milk wholesale.
In Wisconsin young farmer in
partnership with his father started 4
Holstein herd which was composed 81
grade cows, and later purebred sire
In 1904, five cows were purchased. the
lrst year they average 5000 pounds Of
milk; by weighing and testing: sell
ing off the poorer cows, and replacing
with young stock of their own breed
ing they gradually developed a herd
OF thirteen high grade cows which
made the remarkable record Of 1854
pounds Of milk per aaW as an average
yield for the year 1919.
Rouse Bros, Lake County, Illinois,
by breeding and selecting and BY lib
eral feeding have developed in ten Or
a dozen years herd Of 35 to 40 cows
IN milk which averaged 1854 pounds
Of milk in the year 1919.
These illustrations Of successful
dairying are among men who depend
ed upon the COW for a living and in
all but one case they grew everything
for feeding upon their own land ex-
cept the high concentrates, oil meal,
bran, and cotton seed meal. The
cows as a rule do better and last long,
er on home grown feeds-with silage
and plenty of roughage.
These records could be multiplied
until they become tiresome and are
cited merely as examples Of what per-
sonal industry coupled with perser-
verance viii do on the dairy farm.
High production cows require high
production owners, !. e. either capital
earned elsewhere to buy abundant
feed or Drawn and brain and energy
to produce the food requirements nee
essary to large production.
The dairyman who is willing to work
hard to satisfy the appetities of his
cows and who will feed them all they
will eau, viii soon find that they will
return the compliment and produce
abundantly 50 that he and his may
live tn comfort,
The man who enters into partner
ship with herd Of cows will find that
prosperity IA founded upon mutual
trust and good will and as dumb AMI
mails know naught about dishonesty
YOU need never fear Of being cheated,
unless you try to cheat them of the
efed that is due tiiem as producers,
in which case you also cheat yourself.
When that is done it doesn't take
long to dissolve partnership.
One may unintentionally cheat mol
only the COW but oneself, as illustrated
in Iowa some years ago. A farmer,
feeding haphazard, joined a testing
association; and the COW tester, to
emphasize the Importance Of bal
anced ration, followed the farmers
hapharzara method for one month";
carefully charging UP expenses and
returns on ten cAwsl with net prof.
lit Of SO for the ten eews or 30 cents
month per cow.
The next month a carefully calcu.
lated ration was fed, with saving Of
one and one fourth tons of grain and
an increased yield Of milk amounting
to SAB pounds which returned a profit
Of S1O0 over the cost Of feed or Wy
lper month peg sgW
When cows are gong ory y y
mistake to turn them into the dry
lot rather let Us bring them rounc
| to the kitchen door where will bs
handy to give them an extra trea'
| IN the kindest kind Of treatment. Milh
Yields have been doubled when COW!
were over-fed IN the dry period;
M. A, SACKSTEDEk'