Fayette Reporter (Newspaper) - February 9, 1911, Fayette, Iowa DAIRY TALKS Prepared for Iowa Railroad Special Train Service by Hugh G. Van State Dairy Expert cost owners Let her have const Hut suppose she lacks Tho you own the cow la the same reason you own any other the purpose of converting Into a finished product raw Like uny other lie value determined by durability and If alio j typo of tills also and j boldness assures that he will transmit bit qualities and those of his mother and to his offspring Although Mr. Shoemaker has had him leas than a lie advises Sana Aloi is returning 10 nor on a wo can all afford to own lived We On 1 r I. THE COW DEMONSTRATION The necessity for cows of a better type than are being milked over Iowa at the present time becomes self-evident when tbo fact is generally known that out of the million and a half rows in the state 500,000 of them are such loafers that they are being milked over 700 times a year and not only returning absolutely no but In reality are making a perceptible There are two reasons why there are 500,000 cows losing money and more cows just paying for the feud they The reason 1;; that about per cent of the cows do not receive the and feed necessary for profitable It is not their fault but their misfortune that they are unprofitable and this will be discussed later In the lecture The other per are unprofitable because they are poor and not properly This raises the question as to what type nr character of cow is a profit maker and how they can be Five Points There are live absolutely essential mid important points that must be lit the milch cow If Is Any one or these points being absent the cow Is only a part of a cow and it makes little difference how she Ih fed and cared She cannot lie expected to be other than u source of These five points First - Strong feeding Third Nervous temperament of proper to produce flow of blood circulating in the proper Describing in detail these First among them if indicated by large deep chest and heart a well sprung fore This gives chest and freedom of breathing and with a of fresh air the row remains healthy aud in working Strong constitution is absolutely necessary because dairy cows are hard worked animals and are kept housed for a large portion of tho oftentimes in dark and poorly thus the cow is not only robbed of her but also subjected to uV sorts of germ tho pin bonca falls immediately behind the It 1b most always hum that the length from hip bone to run bone decides the of A cow long Irom bins to piu boues will have a long a cow snort In these dimensions will a suuri You will realize the necessity ot knowing this point after we have do scribed the points necessary in select ing sires Countess you will note is not only long oti but she also carries out very straight at the tail end In turn you will note that her udder Is very carried far forming au excellent front vows drooping at the tail end have slanting font Udder development and a portion of the capacity is thus cut it is desirable for cows to be straight anu of rump that the udder development may bo of the proper Texture moro to be desired oven than size and shape is determined by the handling qualities of the hair and hide You will note ou these good cows mo flexibility and elasticity of the tilde covering the This indicates that when milked the udder will being smaller after milking than Cows with udders covered with rough hide and hair usually are unprofitable rows hi although having udders shapely and large before milking comply with the same description after indicating that very littlo milk has been Good such as we have tried to show you from the dairy great producers and show yard have udders both large of proper both if possible in any and tho same but if to sacrifice let it be size rather than texture and Important those four points tho fifth is also important and our dairy bred cows differ greatly from beef Note this large vein passing from tho udder forward the of Guernseys furnished the association for this trip by W. Marsh of la. ' It is even moro prominent ou the stein owned by C. A. Nelson of because sho is giving such a tremendous How of at this These great veins Indicate the amount of blood that is passing along the digestive picking up the capacity ot one horse power from good milch cows she Is worth about us ford not Vj own good the capacity of a 10 h p. then j she Is worth Without en- SILOS AND SILAGE your row handle a great j Silos and 1 am lot of cannot be expected more to the farmer of the make much corn belt of is the Why Some Cows Are than most of us have any j Let her have constitution and in the future the silo will without nervous more than it has in the past mem and a disposition to work she Is merical food stuffs have practically j a If it alio does not feed her digestive system and like a in any other it makes no dif what her other she she Ib ne Why Not a Milk Give her capacity and great udder development of great supposing her blood circulation Is or suppose the run up to the top of her back as they doubled in price during past few years Tho time is present when farmer must rely more upon his own efforts to produce and preserve upon his own farm those foods that will supply the needs of his dairy herds Ho must Jn fact practice intensive farming In the broadest That which in the past has been wasted will in the future measure to a grout extent the And I dare say do in beef do you think that there is no one thing that could is going to make milk out of the taken from the feed that are distributed over her shoulders and hind as is rhe case with beef bred Hero Is a point that must be Kvery pound of food consumed by a cow which is manufactured Into beef is lost from the standpoint of milk and butter fat No nutrients are ever made Into milk and butter fat that do not get Into the udder and no milk feeding nutrients ever get into the udder except they ate taken there by the That is tho importance of the blood circulating rapidly in great amounts in the proper Thus it is evident that these live essential points lit together so that if they arc all found In one and the same it Is most likely that cow will be a great producer of butter fat and How to Get These Such cows cost They are worth money because it Is possible for them tc make annually profits of from to They are not very in I believe there are fewer of them today on average farms than there were twenty-five years There Is one reason why this 1b Farmers and dairymen have been too careless about selecting their In order to build up our endowed with these five essential points in tho future It Is to have them present In the aires used ou our present day This Buffalo Skylark owned by H. H. is one of the greatest prize winning bulls of tho having won championship honors at both tho National Dairy Show and the State Dairy Show Note the of nervous ment and capacity even intensified In Great reading capacity is necessary the food carrying this animal that I have explained in order to the them through the udder which 1 to tho other This great tho odors are not absorbed by bo added to the farm equipment that would promote Intensive farming so greatly as a well built silo The silo will make If possible to produce two pounds of milk where one was formerly and in so doing fertilizing constituents will bo made available that when returned to the land will Increase the productivity in the same Like any other farm the building or a silo incurs considerable it is quite doubtful whether or not any other building can be built that will have such a large capacity for the storage of roughage as will the Comparing the digestive feeding nutrients which indicate more nearly than anything else the value of food we find that one ton clover hay which requires the same space for storage as eight tons of contains pounds of total digestible while eight tons of corn silage eon tains Thus Is It that two and one-third times as digestible feeding nutrients can stored in the silo space as in the hay When building tho silo tho following points should be should be of proper size in till to conform with tho size of the herd to be led irom It. should bo of such character that It will preserve silage to tho best should be built ot such quality of material as will make it substantial and long cost should bo in roach of tho The silo Is a building in itself and therefore should be built In it convenient place the It should be constructed with a closed corridor leading to the barn so cow must handle a volume of both roughage The Indications of a good feeder are a large a long body from shoulders to hip a well sprung and ft deep giving great size ot barrel and In addition to this the In turn so to the ' length from hip bones to pin bones i holds them there to be I and tho with which ho When silos first camo Into use In manufactured Into milk and butter I carries out at the tail as truly this country they were invariably sit the milking Tho great as becomes indicates j built rectangular or square and Is on its way back to the 1 likewise his daughters will carry out This mode of construction heart and lungs to repeat the same straight and Then their past the digestive dors will attach high behind and just as far forward a3 iho point by tho dropping covering of the barrel or the hide and rouud through tho back to the j ten hair must be of Hie hide 11,1,1 nml ' mei pliable to tho not tight and tno ' In front of tho hips the hair soft and silky Instead of wiry and Good handling qualities indicate power and strength of Great bIzo of great size of barrel and good handling qualities Indicate great digestion and such cows as Laura Not Norland Collier and Countess Accomplished are capable of handling great amounts of raw material and are big Nervous temperament or disposition to work and not loaf Is indicated by the large prominent bright open-jointed with each vertebra apparent to the eye and prominent to the touch and a freedom from over tho entire body such as Is Indicated in each of these cows on the A cow Laura that made lust year 1,000 pounds of butter is milking nearly 100 pounds of milk a would not do so lr she a loafer Instead of a Loafing like loafing are not This point 1b all Tho quality of the cow Is indicated by shapely udder development of proper You will note inn wanner In which the udder attaches Sigh behind the cow and far It Is vory but not too Capacity of udder development should do by breadth ami length rather than Deep are more liable to become diseased tho larger ot them come In contact with tho cold barn floor or cold earth in the spring and fall when tho cow lies The udder Is not as efficient as tho long at- of the Itli of tall head it can i be expected that they will have broad ' uniform front ' Quality shown throughout en this { animal assures quality and texture of Studying the note how curving the thighs and well cut up hind The and Incurving of the thigh loom lor rear As for blood i you bo prised to note that tho mammary proved unsatisfactory because It required a large amount of material to make tho silo to withstand tho as air of spoiled Tbo shallow silo was also found unsatisfactory because weights were necessary in order to pack it Later It was learned that greater depth would the necessity of weighting and that by constructing a round structure the corners wore eliminated and the contents of tho silo kept in much bettor There aro many types of silos bo- Cnw at Owned by W. Marsh in. If those veins are torturous and other things bolus the cow is much better than the one whoso veins aro short and At tho ond of these veins you will note I can insert my thumb In a hole entering tho All cows have veins of some one on each Some cows have such an additional one along tho center of tho All tho blood cannot got into one well so some of li passes on to oftentimes lo a third or even a fourth on one side of the and ou both Tho greater the number of these wells or Increased bIzo of the or milk other things being tho better the I have seen a lot of good In those that have mudo over 1,000 pounds of butter a I have nover seen a good cow that did not veins arc to be found on the sire tag constructed at the present time well as tho cows They aro not as cement and hollow brick tilo large nor even as but thoy are being used to a great aro as long. Rudimentary toats are These materials are all good If the also to bo and if of silo is constructed In tho proper mini- large size and well When wood Is used It should he It can be expected that the sire free from knota and Cemont will reproduce in his offspring thoso may be to good advantage If Tho mammary velna understands Its while on the Indicate that they will bo low bricks provide a material which can be used very successfully If built The cost of tbo silo depends entirely upon its Tbo average silo costs two and three hundred the cost of present on his cannot be laid upon demanding tho presence of thoso points in selecting Not only Is this bull of Mr. a great individual but his mother has just a year's with tho material used and tho record in which sho bus made nearly of tho One should not con- 800 pounds of a great aider too seriously tho cost of a silo to bo transmitted to It has been proved When my B. lv that they will pay for themselves maker of me ho in a short was going to start a small herd of Various crops have been used in tho about twenty I suggested to him but In Iowa where corn la the that ho should got tho best bull he principal crop raised this product could Ho Dually secured SanB alone will be found most satisfactory a son of Financial who in making silage for soveral made In one year 936 pounds of tho one of which is no doubt the Tho brother of this bull sold for fact that if the corn is not put into ter comply with these at public Can tho silo the stalks which represent a daily relative to the blood afford to own a bull with large percentage of the feeding value I have a lot o Thoy twenty Ho like any of tho corn will be While aro easy to all over in with any number of cows at all elover or other grains which might be un to me i 011 1inlted 10 a for silage can be stored in a tho Itl h and I never saw a real poor good-for-nothing tho large arteries which bring cow Ulat wftu small barn or In and as Notice how the essential points some dry foods aro necessary with entu there to bo manufactured and especially Is It true by brightness of breadth the advantage of storing these milk and butter fat paas along * T - of the in case of a broad a greater contact with these largo arteries is made and consequently a more extrication of milk and butter The long udder is led by small arteries branching off from these large Notice in fresh cow line dropped in front of tho hip in tho Another dropping from that I nover saw a poor cow with a of length from eye to large in dry form becomes apparent development of milk and mouth and long clean out are many depth of and barrel which must be taHon Into The Value of Constitution are illustrated In this also and it be found It is very reasonable to know why the great length from shoulders to hip that to make good b more points aro bo the quality and texture of hide than to good nny if your cow lacks any one of and hair and the length from the hip lowed to become too dry before for No bone to the pin The openness ting Into the silo the corn matter bow good she is she of hind and thinness ot 8r?fn.J' the hard mob Pf muet taKe or and length ot mammary makes the and velos for The ror 0*lMe> TESTING COWb ON THE The of Improving the dairy of tbo state of Iowa is one which should Interest every The fad thai over half the cows milked iu our state at the present are nut paying for the food they should everyone to some minus of finding out what their are Average Production The average production of butterfat in our la only 140 While there are individuals that are producing four times thla they are down and humiliated by their If we were lo the herds of we would undoubtedly find animals standing ildo by side under the same conditions of feed ami and appearing in general conformation to bo the If these animals were tested Wfc would undoubtedly find one producing three to lour times as much as Iho is this lack of knowledge of what our cows doing that brings the average down lo such a low The farmers of the Mississippi valley noted their thrill and progress along many They have improved their and beef until they are the recognized leaders of the but the average dairy cow is better than she a hundred years It is true that we have animals producing a thousand pounds of butter a but these are we have one cow that produces this amount we hundreds that are not producing more than as How the Unprofitable Cows May Be At the present there is an awakening along dairy lines and the progressive are beginning to realize the Importance of keeping good cows and the absolute loss In keeping the poor The owner must consider his cow as a machine for the production or aud just as the man who operates tho factory must dispose of machine if it does not accomplish Iho purpose for which it Is The only way to determine the amount of produced by our cows is to weigh and test the Ily doing this the production of each animal is and if at the i ud of year of m fall below a standard can bo sold to the It is well to set some Then if our cows fall below it they can be sold or fattened for The problem of weeding the unprofitable cows is one which can be solved by every cow owner The Dial milk which is generally used can be hung in a convenient place in the barn and each milk weighed utter each Tho record sheet furnishes a means of recording the weights ot the milk given each These may either be made at homo or printed at the factory at low It ts arranged with the names cows at the top Uie dates of month at the thus furnishing a. complete record of the herd for one the The next stop is to lake a must be done carefully lu order to get a representative quantity of Probably the best way is to pour the milk from one vossel to another several times and then immediately transfer a portion of it to the sample jar by means of n small It is very to stir tho milk before taking a sample in order that an even distribution of globules may bo If the milk Is allowed to become the fat rises to the surface and If our sample is taken from tho top it is high in while if taken from tho bottom it is Tho sample jars should bo air Tho most practical jar at the present time is tho pint or half-pint milk bottle which has tho patant tin It is and easily which aro the essentials cf my milk are two methods of taking one Is known as tho the other la tho By the Individual 1b meant a portion of tho milk taken from a single placed In tho jar and tested Tho composite sample consists of a relative portion of milk taken from soveral placed In one bottle and tested The first method of is the more correct for tho average farmer because definite of milk are not After tho aro properly secured and the milk It only remains to the percentage of This is by tho Dabcock test. The operation of this test 1b not difficult although It should be thoroughly understood before one upon his of the limited space I shall not explain tho of tho but shall tho reader to books or bulletins on the to say that these may be secured free by writing to tho Experiment Testing Your Cows Saves Tho objection frequently raised to weighing and testing milk Is that It requires a great deal of It Is that some extra time Ib but If it furnishes us a means ot finding the poor animals and disposing 1b it not time well There are many horde of fifteen cows that are producing as much profit at the end ot the year as other herds of I have in mind a man who began testing Wb cows a year herd was one such as we And on the average farm and of forty cows After imii t the teat for several found that ten of bin were uc paying for the feed they Among these ten cows he had previously considered In his Later tin sold to the because were found 1 visited farm a short time ago and found tint be was milking only fifteen it talking with him I found that from these fifteen they were from the n. of forty which ho the This man was well 'n with the Hancock and said no matter how small his herd afford to do without it. It we would we were lug our cows over teven times each year and that many oi those animals are not for them we realize that we undoing a great deal of work and paying for the privilege of doing U The milk should he each but only two days each month are required tailing the If it Is during the anil we find ourselves busy In wo need lest our samples the day ve but we n place a preservative tablet In bottle and allow them remain we find time on a rainy Thus the testing tie when field work is Creates a Demand for the 1 have far spoken only or benefit which a cow owner receives by weeding out his but there In another great factor which enters into the profit side of dairying to tho At the present time there is a gn demand lor young dairy animals of both I find that the demand is much greater than tho who contemplates a herd justly demands record of tn animals which lie There are a few breeders who have been keeping production U result they can demand a high price for I heir because with each individual they can give a complete record of his or her 1 in mind one instance in which e breeder has been receiving from to more for his grade dairy calved because tho scales ami test furnish an accurate record of the data and sires of his He ban created a demand for his young stock which will undoubtedly provide a channel for this ready and sale for some time to Cow Testing The Cow Testing Association is also solving the problem of weeding out tho poor These are organizations In ono community that hire a man to test their once each The man in charge of such work should bo responsible and If possible a graduato of the dairy He should understand dairying in general so he can assist tho farmers breeding and caving for The ol such a position are paid by a definite upon 1Ttwirr test Tho farm at the present time iS of tho greatest factories which wo the average farm has less systematic work than any other There are very few farm that know at tho end of tho year what their farms have oust them and what their exact profit in. Thoy havo no records of how much food their cattle or hogs but simply feed these animals and sell them regardless of how much they aro making or This same lack of system is found in regard to tho dairy If the Dabcock tent and tho scales were used on every farm it would furnish the owner n complete record at tho end of the year and ho would bo able to his profits or his Calling to mind the fact that first In the production of butter aud second in the production of it becomes evident that the farm is not complete in its equipment uo less it is provided with silos for tho ol converting the corn Intu which Is ono of tho sources of WOMEN Women of the highest j women of superior education and whose discernment judgment give weight and force to their highly praise the wonderful corrective and curative properties of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Throughout the many stages of woman's from through the ordeals of motherhood to the declining there is no safer or pore reliable Chamberlain's Tablets are everywhere at 25c a
