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CONKEY'S STOCK BOOK 



JUST A Any old record, ink or lead pencil, a regular form 



CALENDAR SURE blank if you have it (and you can get a pad free 



just by asking the G. E. Conkey Company for it). 



But keep a record, even if you have to use a plain sheet. One practical 

 dairyman uses a calendar pad for each cow; and after milking jots down 

 the result, until he can make his estimate. These figures don't get away 

 from him, and you can just bet his dairy pays! 



For, after all, while there are 

 many and various breeds all told 

 about 100 the real question is not 

 a choice of breeds but choice of 

 cows: and there are just two kinds 

 of cows: (1) the profitable and (2) 

 the unprofitable. 



Which kind are you feeding 



now: 



r? 



If it's a fair question, which 

 kind is your "choice?" 



Does your record show? 



Stick to the scales and the Babcock test! 



Which is the Better Milker? 



II. Running a Dairy for Profit 



Looks like a man would be excused for saying that if there is any busi- 

 ness in heaven the dairymen's would be one of the few allowed. 



It's certainly pleasant to think about a herd of healthy, happy, "tested" 

 cows (in heaven of course they'd all be Missouri Chief Josephines, Yeksa 

 Sunbeams, Colantha 4th Johannas, etc.) in a clean cemented stable, com- 

 fortable and well bedded. Stalls, light, ventilation, everything first-class 

 and better yet than that. Food, water, everything abundant and of the best, 

 you bet you. No stifling dust or odor in the barn itself. Milking utensils 

 bright as a new-minted dollar and a good deal more sanitary. You can 

 see those milk pails if you shut your eyes; all clean from hot water brush- 

 ing no soap, but perfect rinsing in a pure water supply; sterilized abso- 

 lutely germless; small topped, and even that opening partly covered from 

 floating dust, fodder, seed, etc. You smell nothing but that good fragrant 

 cow odor that comes with the good milk cow's quick breathing and soft 

 heaving flanks. 



THE MILKERS You see the milking squad a sound, clean set of men 

 get into their white milking suits and start to work, 

 with absolutely clean, dry hands. Like as not you'll 



want to rush into a white milking suit yourself, but the foreman somewhere 

 says not; there's to be no rushing just quiet, gentle doing all the time no 



well-bred gentlewoman of the land is so upset and 

 ruffled by any noisy, bustling, rowdy behavior as 

 these pure-bred milk cows. It's the gentle 

 handler gets the milk; for the cow responds to 

 the coaxing fingers just as she would do to her 

 own sucking calf. You see each milker go over 

 the body of the animal with damp cloth to gather 

 any dirt or dust from the hide, so that it may not 

 fall into the milk pail. With a separate clean wet 

 A practical milking stool with cloth he brushes the udders carefully, and sees 

 platform, so milk pail can- that they are perfectly clean. He discards the 

 not upset. first stream from each of the four teats into a 



