Imperial Valley press., 1922-02-14

three hundred cows belonging largely
to the home ranches had been tested
| from one to four times; barn books
| for recording these tests being furn-
| ished by Uncle Sam. A fine showing
on the whole, in the number of one
pound a day and over cows was made
| also that all but five had pure bred
| sires at the head of their herds show
ing that these ranches are in line for
! heifers surprising their dams in
value. Carletire Lynch followed and
! told of class activities at the River
| side fair where stock was seen that
will set 4 model for breeding and
feeding and where the class scored
second place in judging hogs and cat
tie among the schools competing only
in these classes. The very valuable
part played by members of the class
| in building the chicken exhibit pens
and filling many of them as well as
some good stock brought in by the
class at the recent El Centre fair
was mentioned. In closing a report of
his hog feeding project was given in
which he told how starting with six
motherless pigs and understood, he;
footed up $121.00 as the gross income
|
! writer commends this pig story to the
careful attention of dairymen and a
full story will be published in The
Press if desired.
Tom Fisher followed with the story
of one Imperial Valley COW whose
corral is little more than two miles
away. She gave her owner twin heif
ers as her first contribution which
he said the owner would refuse $3.50
each for as they are worth four or
dinary cows.
The two succeeding years she gave
him bull calves and he sold them for
$100 each. The next calf was bull
a fine individual worth another $100
this fall. What her next calf will be,
a few months will tell. All this time
she has given her owner the profit in
milk of two average valley cows.
A short lead pencil will foot up the
total. This COW is not scrub but a
pure bred Holstein, probably no better
than scores of dairy farms could own.
Walter Wakefield next told of stud
les made by the class in other dair-
les, trip to Imperial packing house,
pruning and drafting demonstrations
j closed with a visit to the McKim hog
ranch, the largest in the valley where
/ pure bred hogs are used for breeding,
the owner assuring us that a pure
bred pig will put on more weight and
be ready for market in less time than
mongrel. "The game in hog rais-
ing,' said Mr.. Mchlm, sis to turn the
money over as often as possible like a
thrifty merchant down town."
Cow Testing in Home Herd
Ivan Quincey's story was of COW
testing in his home herd and how,
when heifersN coming on needed more
! feed forced the sale of twenty cows
we're offered the buyer at $l25 each,
after reserving several top notchers.
these cows to be selected from the
Babcock tested herd. The buyer said
he knew a good cow when he saw her
and went away with thirteen out of
twenty low producers. The ranch was
the gamer by several hundred dollars.
Valley dairymen are being stung by
Just such overconfidence and will be
as long as testing is considered too
expensive as most do. Bookkeeping
seems to be good practice down on
Main street but not where it is badly
needed.
Clayburne Poole told Of finding a
two pound and over COW in the home
herd but left much unsaid to speak of
his major project, an acre of lettuce.
His father has refused 5000 an acre
for other acres lying along side his
and, thanks for an active market, his
acre may net this amount.
Cecil Courtney has twenty cows in
his project he said "four have fresh
cned and one gives us considerable
, better than pound of fat day, Her
calf may prove better. When all are
tested we shall keep the best and Jet
the other fellow have the rest" He is
proud of his pure bred sire and went
) home with blue ribbon from the Ell
/ Centro fair last fall.
Caspar Majors story would have
| been Counting chickens after they
hatched" but could not be present to
t tell it. He has brought off about a
= thousand chicks thus far at fair
| margin of profit and believes his.
| university poultry course plus actual
: experience, fine preparation for
some future bigger business.
. Marion Wilson was stage struck
r when his turn came and escaped to
the kitchen where he was assisting.
f His project Of helping to fatten out
: carload of hogs on a fifty-fifty
RI basis is an interesting story as well
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