DAIRY HERD 



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CATTLE 

 I. The Dairy Herd 



TTTHEN you come to the dairy you come to the highest principle of 



l/l/ livestock farming. 



V Y In the dairy, most of all, you realize that raising livestock is a 

 "manufacturing business," with dairy animals for machinery, improved, and 

 unimproved, and feed for the raw material. Good sense, on the dairy farm 

 as in the factory, is: 



1. Securing the best raw material the cheapest way, 



2. Selecting, caring for, mending, improving machinery, 



3. Stopping unnecessary waste, 



4. Getting the best market for products. 



RAW MATERIAL This whole subject is too big for subhead discus- 

 sion. We will make many general statements in 



relation with other topics, but the details have been taken up carefully under 

 the section Feed and Feeding. 



THE COW 



"MACHINERY" 



How is your dairy equipped with dairy machinery? 

 We don't mean have you a Babcock tester or a cream 

 separator, or one of the new-fangled milking machines 



that make a cow think she's being renovated with a vacuum cleaner. Get 

 down first of all to the cow. Is she improved or unimproved to begin with? 

 if improved, is she a good specimen of her kind or breed, or do you keep 

 her because of her high sounding lable? Or is she just a common ungraded 

 scrub junk, full of loose bolts and screws, slow to work, wasteful of raw 

 material, poor and uncertain as to final product? Or, if good to begin with, 

 do you keep her "oiled" up in slick running order, considering the wear and 

 tear on high grade machines when run with a high pressure motor for 

 heavy factory output. 



