Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-10
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itneast#Sof East Grand Forks recently
S1nade the visitor wish to be a child
7 once more.
Little Virginia chatheld, aged, eight,
ana a thorough little horsewoman,
Was riding her favorite black pony
When IN the Herald kodak snapped her
an front of her mothers house. Mrs.
chatfeld raises shetland ponies For
sale, and children want ponies
ina she can supply. Her imported
sire, Brookings, whose sire ana dam
are from the Shetland Isles, is one OF
me handsomest ponies one could v e
lay eyes upon. His beautiful little
llAack head seems almost human in its
E1ntellAgencc. He is gentle and pleas
= ant an in spite OF his fiery disposition.
A Blue Ribbon Pony
Brootings wa never defeated in a
show ring until last year at the Grand
Forks fair. when his driver was dis
Qualified because of oversize. This
was8no reflection on the pony. though
eMHproud~ little stallion seemed to
winning two blue ribbons when he
1dstIYas a. colt. He is now eight years
old and so perfect a specimen that
he is sure to- win. honors wherever
he Is shown.
/. Mrs. Chatfeld's ponies won first on
sucking colt at the fair of last year,
and second on driving stallion. Her
ponies arc we'll trained from the be-
ginning. She never allows a child to
ABUSE her little pets. consequently they
IRE ideal companions for children
without the laziness and Ill temper
thai so often characterize Shetland
ponies whose training has been left
to youngsters In addition to Brook
ings. Mrs. Chatf1eld now has a mother
pony and two colts.
A Real Dairy Woman
But it wasn't to see the Shetland
PONIES that the Herald visitor went to
the Chatfield farm-they We're the
pleasant surprise. The GueGnseys
Mrs. Chatfield owns had attracted the
visitors attention. Mrs. Chatfeld is
!K~anlsakee. Tlinois/ three years ago,
and with her husband, settled on a
i476 acre farm which they purchased
from B. G. Cook OF Peoria. Mr..
rEhatfeld looks after the general farm
ing operations and Mrs. Chatield
manages the work OF the dairy. She
said:
II rave always loved cows from the
time I was q little girl. They used to
have a. time oft with me whenever
MI overheard my father say that the
hbutcher was coming for. one Of the
Ncalves. wbuld take it away into the
corn field ant MD it, and as long as
~ knew the butcher was on the place
+ wouldn't let it be found. This habit
Of mine became such a nuisance to
my father that he finally offered to
give me the best calf that money could
buy If I would stop it,. OF cours I
agreed, and it vas the %proudest NOM
ent Of my life when he bought me a
very fine milking shorthorn heifer
calf. I raised the calf myself, and
for many years she was the best COW
On the place, and a great pet. h
would come to me from any place in
the pasture when she heard me call.
iDairying was the big thing with Us
down there, and 4 came here from a
dairy farm where we were milking IS
o6ws.
A Cow Worth Having
when we came up here we brought
With, us seven high grade Guernsey
heifers from aNwell kept farm in IL
'linOis. Just now we are milking -
COWS, high grade Guernseys and
Shorthorns. I, wish they were all
Guerpseys; that is what I am work
ing toward. They have a longer milk
r ing period tina other breeds, and give
q very rich milk. l have one pure
bred cow, June or Silvert9n, t72231.
'Shegwas sired by Rosseau Of Koskon-
lOnSSEldCo, anu NeI OaIH Was OIHSAlA
1qf Woodends with an A. r. record Of
t3O£s in class A. Her calf this
year is a pretty little heifer sired by
Roberts Boy of Minnesota, 41524,
owned by Mrs. H. c., Woolson Of Thief
River Falls. June of Silverton is CIV
ing thirty pounds Of 4.S milk daily.
II wish I had a dozen like her!
Il bought a carload Of COWS at the
annual Guernsey sale at Thief River
10 1lo q vaar orn = One was this c0u
from Mrs. Woolson, and another was
la high grade from the Burr Oaks
farms. They are all good cows and
exceptionally fine frsilkers.
v. Cows Pay the Bills
IT have delivered milk in the city
Afor over a year, taking it in myself.
bhr. iChatfield has always bee a beef
cattle man while ] have always loved
tthe dairying. Up here of course, the
beef cattle dom pay. 80 it has all
been dairying for us. I don't know
what we would rave done without the
COWS during these first hard years Of
getting started up here. 1t means
lot Of work but it is well worth 1t.
we have to keep two men the year
round, and during the summer we
have two. or three extras besides.
pr am my own. veterinarian and
greatly enjoy working with the stock
I don DO any OF n mixing as ln0
work in the house takes much Of my
Hime. It keeps me hustling to oversee
thc dairy work and look after the
comfort of the animals. Constant at
teption is necessary TO. keep every
thing just right. I have been proud
Of my bacteria tests which for a long
time nave been running asSlow as 81
600. During the, warm weather there
ID always a jump, and Ia b early part
Of June my test went to 10000. The
milk is very carefully strained through
hrfJeesecloth and baton and is removed
rom The barn Immediately after milk
Ing. We handle something over fifty
Gallons of milk daily, milking twice a
day, The morning milk Is sold in the
city, and the nights milk Il separated
from the cream, and the skim milk
fed togthe calves. W. are raising ten
calves, six OF them are male Short
horns that I am going to selffor veal.
Sheep and Hogs
W raise a good many hogs too.
"a there is always PLENTY Of demand
Tor the skim milk. We have abOu
* registered DnrOc Jerseys Of the
Grin Cherry Ghieftain{ line. The
,reAier Of our herd boar wasgan Iowa
"a AR. weighing 800 pounds. We brought
c,if foundation sheep with US from
Tiiinois. They are good grade ehrcp-
shires. AyeArliny eve from our
Nonk won first and sweepstakes at the
arand Forks county fair a year ago,
Ana we also took first on ewe n
ssmhs. We would not be without .
IrIIs <nnkA ~ ahAAn. They keen tho