No. 7. V DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 645 



stanchions, with skim milk, fresh from the separator, in clean tin 

 pails twice a day. Then they are given a feed of oats or barley 

 meal, followed by alfalfa hay. All this consumes an hour, say. 

 Then they are let out of the stanchions to run at will on the floor. 

 TNvice a day they are let out in the big barn yard to have a run 

 and play. Fresh water is kept standing before them, on the floor of 

 the stable, all the time. 



Now this care takes a little time and thought. But you can 

 never have skill and good judgment, nor the -rewards of skill and 

 judgment, unless you invest time and thought. All this care has 

 a great effect on the future cow. 1 have raised but one heifer, 

 pure bred or grade to cowhood in 15 years, that would not produce 

 3U0 pounds of butter and over a year. It is this careful develop- 

 ing care and feed, I believe, aided by good breeding, that has given 

 me these results. 



Don't you think I have made a good deal more money with my 

 cows by this method, than I would if I had pursued the common 

 neglectful way? Farmers have not yet begun to half think, on the 

 fine possibilities there are in the production of valuable cows. The 

 demand for dairy products, all over the Union, is far ahead of the 

 supply. And the cleaner, sweeter, more perfect we make that 

 product the more does the demand increase. 



'Think of the demand there is, today, for good cows. A few weeks 

 ago Mr. F. B. Fargo, of Lake Mills, AVis., placed a five-line ad. in 

 Hoard's Dairyman, offering to furnish Holstein grade cows by the 

 carload. In two weeks' time he had received hundre\ds of letters, 

 as far distant as Texas, Mexico, California, Oregon and the states 

 on the Atlantic coast, the writers of which were all anxious for 

 one or more carloads. He was amazed at the demand. It is so in 

 other dairy breeds. Don't you think it will pay to turn your atten- 

 tion to the question of producing superior cows for your own use 

 and the market? 



The present methods of handling cows, in the great milk pro- 

 ducing centers, amounts to the destruction almost of all calf raising. 

 Cows are bought, fed high for a year or so, and sold to the butcher. 

 This makes all the better, the chance for the intelligent, far sighted, 

 dairy farmer to make a handsome profit in growing cows to supply 

 that market. 



A GOOD SIRE. 



There is a great host of dairy farmers who cannot yet see the cash 

 advantage of buying a pure-bred bull and paying the going price for 

 him. The price blinds their eyes, and so they go around looking for 

 a cheap bull, not one that can bring them something good in return. 

 They will say, ''Oh, I'm not breeding registered stock. I cannot af- 

 ford to pay the regular price for a bull." That is short sighted econ- 

 omy as sure as they live. They are keeping down the quality of their 

 own cows in the future and the value of the young heifers they may 

 want to sell. An Illinois man who annually buys over a hundred 

 thousand dollars' worth of cows and heifers in Jefferson county, Wis., 

 said to me recently, "I buy a cow on her looks, but I never buy a 

 heifer until I take a lool^at her sire. If he is a good one, I am more 

 confident of the value of the heifer." 



