The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-09-25
AYRsHIREs AT THEIR BEST

breaches ana mas attained suCcees
which is q telling advertisement for
the breed. He has built up herd,
managed a farm and developed
milk trade in Columbus, all of which
are eloquent proof of the boast for
the Red and White that she is the
most economical producer of the
highest quality of market milk"
In a territory where the breed is de-
serving a much wider popularity
he has established an Ayrshire
business which is an encouragement
and an inspiration to those who
seek a choice of breed and ex-
perienced guidance in the methods
which are most certain to yield
satisfying result.
The effectiveness of Mr.. Angevine's
advocacy of the Ayrshire is increas-
ed by the fact that each successive
step forward has been practical
common sense methods which can be
easily followed by any other begin
ner who will "start right, with
| Ayrshires," unless it is getting by"
with his very first purchase of
Red and White. On busy wash
day morning he was sent for some
necessary laundry supplies with tho
usual Monday morning admonitior
| on the farm, to hurry back" He
i returned at four-thirty in the after
noon, leading an Ayrshire COW
Many a budding business has beer
wrecked for less.
This first Ayrshire brought to the
farm under such inauspicious cir
eumstances was Texalier 1917
lropped in 1885 at Brandon, Ver-
mont, the property of c. M. Win
low. Secretary of the Ayrshire
Breeders Association. Registered If
! he name of ]. P Beatty, of Ohio
he was not even transferred to the
me who sold her to Mr. Angevine for
$40. She produced as much as
fifty two pounds of milk per day
nder unfavorable conditions and
"sold the breed to her new owner
tity as a purebred lost, she lived up
to the breeds reputation for produc'
ton and was a leading factor ir
starting a great Red and White
herd. In view of the great service
to the breed from this herd. the
Ayrshire fraternity may we'll join In
three lusty cheers for good old red
Vermont '"Tex" who journeyed from
the Green Mountains to the Buckeye
State to serve as the foundation
animal on the Angevine farm.
From that time on, for thirty
years, intelligent effort has con-
stantly been made toward profitable
production in the herd. Though nc
high prices have ever been paid
well bred bulls have always beer
used. In 1902 there were thirty
head of grades and purebreds or
he farm. A bull secured that year
rom ]. j.. Hill cost $42 The best
bull so far used, as judged by the
yields of his daughters, the only
basis which Mr.. Angevine recognizes
for valuing sire, cost $40. A
rigid system of selection has always
been followed. The best have been
retained and the tail enders" dis
carded. In recent years more reg
istered animals have been included
though the herd is yet largely
grade, chiefly for the reason, ac-
cording to Mr.. Angevine, that, with
grades, there is LESS temptation to
hang ON to a poor one." AS proof
that a rigid system of culling is
followed, in 1924 thirty cows, after
milk was taken for four families
and for some feeding, averaged, as
shown by returns from the dis
tributing company, 10,O40 pounds.
Ten years ago a buyer in the
Pataskala district brought together
a carload of Ayrshire grades which
he remembers today as 1.-The best
lot of dairy cows I've ever seen
and the only reason it wasn't still
more remarkable is that no cows
could be gotten from the Angevine
herd" Last year two cows. grades,
were sold for $3.50 each, and the
best never leave the farm. The
writer, thinking to compliment Mr.
Angevine when he saw the herd
recently. remarked, II can get yor
$3.50 for such grades as these
The wise old dairy farmer replied
Thanks. I'll pay you $500 for any
as good-and make money OF
them Few can be found which
come up to the average Of this dem
onstration of what can be done with
Ayrshires.
No more striking than Mr.. Ange-
vines beginning with Ayrshires was
his start in the nursery milk bust
ness in Columbus. sympathy for
mother who feared the death OF
her baby because no suitable milk
cnuld he found 1od him tn give