Putnam patriot., 1924-04-11

2 ally successful herd.
 Raises Strong Heifers | Mr Warren makes speciality of [ 2 growing out strong. healthy heifer { 2 calves and to get a biz growth in their I first year allows them plenty of milk. ! Calves are placed on short-teated heif- CTS and On cows beginning to slacken E up in production toward the end of f 2 their laetation period. or the twen- ty-hve cows ln the herd at the time of recent visit. two were dry and five f ! were sueklinR calves The eighteen f cows producing milk for the daily , sales were filling from eleven Go twelve cans of milk q day, each can holding 2i 25 quarts. This would in- 2 dicate an average production for each Of the eighteen cows of somewhere | around fourteen quarts a day. Of the | eighteen cows in milk. six are two ; year old heifers with first calves. | One reason why the visitor cannot s helu wishing that Mr Warren kept I s more complete milk records is that the o census figures show Windham County s to have the Invest average milk pro auction uer eaW of any county in the State Here. at least is herd that in appearance and in all available ev- idences of production should rank fl among the best of its size tn Connect ieut | would almost be safe t0 pre- i. diet that mlk records would show the
 average production on this farm to be at least three times that of the aver if age for Windham County herds T Uses Pure Bred Bulls
 ', - Mir Warren has been on this farm ss for twenty t8o years For practical 2 lv the entire period he has used pure Ia bred Holsfein bulls. About sixteen 1z . seventeen Eears ago he added two ; purebred Halstein cows and from this d foundation began breeding up 2 pure ae bred hard Every COW in the herd is ee now n purebred and with very few exz sv eeptions all have been raised on the
 farm. High milk production has been CT attained through years of careful SC
 lection and breeding
 While she common practice in Gonz 1T, necticui is 10 buy cows for replace sS ment. a tradition having grown up
 fhat f s atoo expensive Go grow
 calves h IHIs section the eNact oppos .a site Is followed on the Warren farm 4 All haifef calves that show promise ,.s nrc grown with the idea of eventually .et mraruoratne them in the herd " the of milk scales prove that they have pro- sra duction ability In their frst lactation. my the heifer find a place in the herd. 'as Weed. Out Older Cow.
 Older COWS that begin to slow up in i..4 production are wecded out As these
 cows are much better mixers than the
 average af cows imported into the
 State from Vermont. Wisconsin and
 other states. they are in demand and i, bring good prices From nine to ten
 mature cows are sold each year, ,sf bringing from $125 to S250 each.
 Heifers are not sold unless they fail
 in their first tests at the milk pail. h ais this way. Mir Warren Is enabled to
 maintain production at A high peak
 and at the same time to get the max
 imum value from his system of rais- by ing heifer calves at home.
 Grows Ample RouRhsse
 There are about 600 acres of land
 in the Warren farm. large part of
 which is timbered The farm provides
 plenty If pasture and enables the ,,,. owner to grow uil of the roughage needed for the dairy herd. In fact, ti. about 90 tons of hay is sold annually
 as surplus The milking herd gets the
 hay containing the highest percent of ,nA clover in the mixture.
 The milk is sold at Boston through the the N F. Nj P A. The herd IS under
 tubereulin test
 Mir Warren evidently has some
 mysterious panacea for the labor
 problem. for there isn't any on this xht farm. One man has been with him
 ever since he started farming twenty
 two years ago. Another has been with his him for five years. His son. Sumner, Ia af4NN NNEH frsfsa fssA fF ha ng dairy herd and plans to become s
 farmer
 aat Follows Segis Family Line i, In breeding up his herd Mir Warren
 has tried for some years Co follow the ma Segis family line His present bull is
 Segis Pontiac Hartog Lyons 260619.
 This bull was bred in New York state
 and sold as a calf for S650 He was q .p- mature animal when purchased by his
 present owner and now has twenty am one daughters with which Mir. Warren
 is we'll pleased.
 The seven day record of his thir-
 teen nearest dams is 3 pounds of but ef ter and 5o9 pounds of milk as an av-
 craze. The dam Is Fairmont Queen t Scgis HartoC, with a seven day record
 of 2gb7 pounds of butter and 52t.t
 pounds of milk and a thirty day rec lis ord of it949 pounds of butter and
 5.iiS.i of milk al three and half of years of age Her sire is the famous
 King seris Pontiac Aleartra.
 Pure Bred Bull Campaign On
 The Wlndham County Farmers' As-
 sociation is now engaged in a cam nc pAign Co encourage all dairy farmers
 in the county to use only purebred he bulls and to raise their own heifer
 calves, l. Is pointed out that under < ny system of buying 10vs from outside
 the State. the average milk prcduc- its ton has been decreasing. The ress-
 on is that farmers in Vermont and .N other surplus COW states keep their he best animals and sell their eulls. While
 it Is true, therefore, that 1t Is possible
 to buy eowe in this State as eheaply D. as Co raise them, the system is gradu-
 ally working to the detriment of ths
 dairy industry By using only pure