The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-04-02

A JUDGMENT DAY FOR cows
By M. A. Nye
Blue Valley Farm Service
Bossy has at least one judgment
day. Yet while she is living and right
at home.
Business Dairymen know the year
ly butterfat production of each cow
~ ,"y own. At the end of the testing
f., whenever it happens to come
j them, they can go down in the
/, walk along behind the cows, and
gnounce the verdict for each one.
4 .e talk might run something like
NE following:
Roany is giveH friendly slap on
the back and a tender voice says:
"Roany, you're my best cow. I wish
| had barn full like you. You gave
- $500 pounds of milk this last year
sud it figured out that it contained
$50 pounds of butterfat. You made
me good profit"
"Spec, you're next to Roany. You
have second place in this cow fam
lily. I didn't think it but the records
don't lie. You gave practically as
much milk as she did, but your
test was always little lower. Your
total butterfat is 365 pounds. You're
a good cow. You are profit max
err"
Nellie is the next cow in line. She
and Cherry, right beside her, run
about the same in the amount of milk
they give and in their test. Both
produced around 800 pounds of but
terfat They have been profitable.
Next comes Babe and her owner
stops behind her and soliloqquqizes,
"Well Babe, I've had feeling for
some time that we've been keeping
you largely for your society and now
that the years records are complete,
know we have. You gave me this
year 5000 pounds of milk with 112
pounds of butterfat in it. You are
not a profitable COW. You are just
not a dairy cow, The stall room you
are taking up must be filled with a
profit-maker. You are good look
ing COW but you keep up your appear
ances at the expense of not giving
enough milk. Your jig is up. You
havt been proven guilty of being a
money-loser.
Spotty stands next to Babe. "She
has been a fooler," ponders her own
q as he approaches her and gives
,r tail twitch. "Spotty, have al
avs thought you were one of my
st cows. You do give nice lot
milk and it tests up pretty well,
you are such a short time mixer.
we got to have cows in this barn
. t keep giving milk for ten months
or near there. You didn't much more
than break even for the feed and la
Dor I've put in on you this last year.
J, And so as the first six cows are
stamped as money-makers or money
losers the rest of the herd is passed
or rejected. ''
There are, of course, other things
taken into consideration in passing
Judgment, upon each cow besides her
years butterfat record. Maybe she
. is a heifer, maybe she had bad luck,
was overfed, or one of many things
that might be reason enough for keep
ing her in the herd for at least an
other year. AS the owner continues
giving each cow her Just dues more
cows in the herd are pronounced pro-
ftable; three or four more are found
to be like Babe.
=. "These Boarders, he decides, will
be sold Immediately. They are los
ing for me what the others make.
will replace them by buying some
good cows or probably with some Of
my young daughters of my new Pure
Bred Bull"
Keeping weights on cows is not
kids play 1t is an old institution.
Business Dairymen know its value
Time put in on cows pays as much
per hour as weighing and testing each
cows milk and using the knowledge
thus gained to Gull and improve the
herd.
Hanback,, Red Durum Should
Not Be Sown-"It is to the interest
of every farmer who grows wheat in
1925 to SOW the variety that pro-
duces the highest yield of the best
quality wheat" says A. c. Army OF
the Minnesota Experiment Station
marquis is the best variety of com.
mon bread wheat available for plant.
ing this spring. Humpback is low
yielding variety and the quality is
poor. 1t can be recognized by the
bearded spikes and comparatively
dong slender tapering bumped rec
kernels with long brush.
Farmers near the following towns
should be on the lookout for Hump
;, back since several cars were shipped
= from those points this year: DIVA
= tonna, Wabasso, Chenille, Waldorf
Bixby, Glendale, Rice, Ottertail, Ed
EN- Valley, Hancock, Brooten, Avon
and Paynesville.
"Midum is the best durum wheat
available for planting. 1t is rust re.
.sistant and high yielder. of the best