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The Hertford Brand, Friday Jom 10. tWO
•AIRY
Qui Pratt aad Reweaae to Cwi
The dairy cow is a better source
of revenue than a great many people
who have not made a study of her
ghre her credit for being. It is not
only her cream, butter and calf pro*
duction that makes her valuable,
but there are other points of value
to her credit. In fact the dairy cow
has seven points of revenue makiog,
as follows:
1. The butter fat from the cow
sold to the creamery at a fixed price
is a source of revenue, expressive in
terms of cash.
2. A certain portion of the whole
milk of a cow is used to feed the
calf after its birth until such time as
it is able to be supported on skim
milk and other feeds. This portion
of the cow's milk used to feed the
calf is whole milk and is worth for
feeding purposes as much as any
whole milk the cow gives.
3. On every farm on which cows
are kept, there is a certain amount
of the milk and cream that is used
by the family for table uses, and
there is a certain amount of butter
fat that is made up into butter for
the family's own use.
4. The fourth source of revenue is
the calf.
5. The fifth soutee of revenue is
the skim milk used to feed the calves
and pigs.
6. The sixth source of revenue is
the manureal element, which approx-
imates by weight in solids and liquids
17,000 pounds.
7. The seventh source of revenue
of the dairy cow is her beef value
after her usefulness for milking has
ended.
Now revenue is one thing and
profit is another. If the former is
lacking in knowledge and judgement
there is no profit. If the cow is
lacking in profitable capacity, there
is no profit.
Rapid Milking Best.
Rapidity in milking cows has been
shown to be one of the greatest es-
sentials by conclusive tests recently
made, and the more rapid the milk-
ing the better the results secured
will be.
Massage on the cow's udder by
the hand excites nervous action in
the cow, which in turn stimulates
action of the milk glands. The
more rapid the massage movements
the greater is the nervous stimula-
tion of gland action and the greater
amount of milk that will be yielded.
Not only this, but the faster the
milk is drawn the richer it will be in
butter fat. Often there is a differ-
ence of more than 10 percent of but-
ter fat in milk between fast and slow
milking in favor of the former.
One can learn to milk fast just as
to milk slow, and when rapidity is
once acquired it is easier than the
slow progress. A good milker will
sit down to a cow and draw all of
her milk in a very few minutes and
the faster the milking is done the
better the cow seems to like it and
the fewer the movements she makes.
Didn't you ever notice this? The
cow that is milked slowly is slow a-
bout giving down her milk, and re-
peated slow milkings will cause a
cow to dry up sooner than she would
if milked rapidly.
It is also held, aod there are good
physical reasons for it, that a cow
will give more and richer milk if
two alternate teats are milked at the
same time, instead of two at a time
on the same side of the udder. By
this process of milking both right
and left sides of the nervous system
are excited at the same time and the
whole milk secreting system is itim-
ulatsd at once, resulting in a large
and rich flow of milk.
Mix Dairy and Breed.
The dairy industry adapts itself to
two Uses of activity aad to two pro-
fits better than any other class of
farming. With the present demand
for dairy stock, with the prices that
are prevailing for both products aad
stock, and with the present means of
caring for milk and dairy products,
the opportunity to carry on profit-
able dairying is certainly attractive.
The time once was, and not so
very long ago, when the milk from a
cow was considered the main source
of revenue. Cows were kept and
bred simply for the milk they would
yield. This with a good cow—not
an extra good one—at fair creamery
prices would amount to from $10 to
$30 net profit each year. If one
gives some little attention to market
conditions and to the quality of the
product that figure may be insreased.
There is practically no limit to the
possibilities of the exclusive milk
market, but with the cows that will
uake such a yield as this, the dairy
products represent only about one-
half the profit, for the calf is some-
times easily worth from $100 to
$1,000. The value depends on the
kind of blood that flows through the
calf's veins, upon the reputation of
the owner and upon convincing the
public of the calf's inherent value.
Of course, all stock of this kind pre-
supposes a registered ancestry with
the thoroughly established ability
to produce.
The dairyman who is a dairyman
alone and the breeder who i s a
breeder alone are both losing half of
their opportunities. Roth are tail-
ing to live up to the largest measure
of success. Dairying and breeding
combine beautifully and double the
profits of either alone.
A Bell County Jersey.
Tom Bacon of Bell county has a
Jersey cow that he is so proud of
that he proposes to put a carpet on
the floor of her stall in order to show
her cowship the high appreciation he
has of her butter producing qualities.
Bacon lives near Killeen, a sec-
tion in which good milk cows are
numerous, but his Jersey has out-
stripped and outmilked them all.
Atter winning the first prize at the
Bell Gounty Trades Day function,
$5 in cash offered by J. J. Bishop
for the best m;lk cow, this one made
a better record, and during March
her record was 983 pounds 8 ounces
of milk, from which was churned 64
pounds 6 ounces of butter. At 35c
a pound the butter could have been
retailed for easily in March, this
would have amounted to $22.57£
and besides Bacon had the skim milk
and buttermilk to feed to his hogs
that was worth considerable more.
A very good showing for one cow.
75 Per Cent Profit.
That dairying is profitable and
profitable in a high degree was fully
and clearly demonstrated in a dairy
cow test conducted by the Dairy
Cow Testing Association of Fremont,
Mich., recently each cow in the test
yielding a profit on her keep of
nearly 75 per cent.
In this test the association had
thirty dairy herds, there being a
total of 239 cows. These 239 cows
were charged with all the food they
consumed, at market prices, just
what the farmer could get for it had
he sold the feed on the market.
Then they were credited with what
they produced, or rather the butter
fat which they produced not at
fancy prices, but at the regular
creamery prices.
All of the milk from the 239 cowc
went to co-operative creameries near
Fremont and the cow was credited
with the butter fat at the price paid
at the local creamery. The result
was that on an average for the 239
cows the owners received $1.71
worth of milk for each $1 worth of
feed consumed by the cow, or a net
profit of nearly 75 per cent.
The farmer owners of these cows
raised a large part of the feed con-
sumed by the cows on their farms
aad bought some at market prices,
but figuring all at what they could
have sold it for, instead of hauling
it off their farms aad selling it in
open market, they sold it to their
cows, and at those prices by feeding
it to his cows be got $1.71 for every
$1 worth of feed. They not only
received more for their feed by feed-
ing it to their cows, but saved the
expense of hauling this feed to mar-
ket. Not only that, but tfcey saved
all the vegetable matter that would
have been taken off the farms in the
manure, and put that back to keep
up the fertility of the farms.
Silo for Small Farms.
The silo has the indorsement of
small farmers and dairymen through-
out the United States, In fact no-
one who has once successfully used
it ever goes back upon it. Actual,
practical experience verifies the work
of the experiment stations in every
instance, but occasionaly small beef
feeders are found who object to the
silo for some reason. Usually it is
because they have not given it a fair
trial.
Hon. David Rankin, a highly suc-
cessful farmer near Tarkio, Mo.,
said to be the most successful farmer
in the world, has just given the silo
a thorough test and he unqualifiedly
indorses it. He has been feeding
without the silo for a good many
years, but his radical change is bas-
ed upon the greater economy which
the silo system offers. He says
that a farmer is foolish who acts in
opposition to the instructions of pro-
fessional men who are giving their
time exclusively to the perfection of
modern methods for the farmer. All
the agricultural colleges find by ex-
periment that there is a saving of
from 20 to 40 per cent, some even
say as much as 50 per cent, in the
use of silage. In view of these facts
it is foolish for the farmer to throw
away this part of the crop. Upon a
farm fike Mr. Rankin's where ap-
proximately 25,000 acres of corn
are raised every year, this saving
represents figures that are little less
than stupendous. The size of the
the farms will necessitate the install-
ation of from 30 to 50 silos this year
and more will probably be put up
from season to season.
Milk Flow.
A great many people think that
the "giving down" or "holding up"
the milk of a cow is a voluutary
act—in fact they fancy that the
cow's udder is a vessel with milk
that flows or does not flow at the
will and pleasure of the cow.
The fact of this is the udder is a
manufactory; it is filled with blood
from which the milk is manufactured
while you milk. This process is
controlled by the cow's system;
when she is excited or in any way
disturbed, as by a stranger, or by
taking away her calf, or any other
cause the process is arrested and the
milk will not flnw. The nervous
energy of the cow—the power that
runs the milk factory—goes else-
where. The whole process is as in-
voluntary as is digestion in a human
being and is disturbed or arrested
in about the same way.
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand, Vol. 10, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, June 10, 1910, newspaper, June 10, 1910; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth253557/m1/2/?q=%22The+Brand+Publishing+Co.%22: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.