PRICE, THREE CENTS 
®i.oo PER YEAR. 
A CONNECTICUT COW BUOY. 
Jersey Cream for Cash. 
EVERY COW EARNS A $ 100-BILL PER YEAR. 
Something to Brag About. 
“ Is this Mr. Van Deusen ?” I inquired of a boyish- 
looking stranger coming from the barn. 
“ I suppose I must answer to that name,” said he of 
the rosy cheeks, although I am more commonly 
called ‘ Ed.”’ 
Edward L. Van Deusen, of “ The Meadows,” Ash¬ 
ley Falls, Mass., has been farming for himself only 
about six years, and yet he shows what study, enter¬ 
prise and hard work can be made to accomplish. 
“ Some one said you read the agricultural papers, 
and are running a fancy farm.” 
“ Some one is right first and wrorg second. I read 
the agricultural papers, it is true ; I shouldn’t know 
what to do without them. But I know nothing about 
fancy farming. This is all the business I have,” wav¬ 
ing his hand towards the barn, “and I run it like a 
business, for what there is in it. If all farmers did the 
same there would be less growling 
about the lack of profits. But 
come out and see my pets.” 
“ We went to the barn,” a group 
of large buildings unpainted but 
not unkempt. The cow barn was 
especially tight and warm. A wide, 
rolling door led us directly into a 
large, light, airy room filled with 
cows and heifers, every oue of them 
chewing the cud of sweet content 
or licking or otherwise enjoying 
herself, for all were held by auto¬ 
matic-fastening swing stanchions. 
Some of the Cow Partners. 
“ This is Alpena, an Albert Pansy 
two pound butter cow,” began the 
proud owner introducing his herd. 
“ She would be hard to beat, not 
only for richness, but for quantity, 
and long milking habit. Kick ! No; 
you can do anything with her. I 
haven’t an animal in the barn that 
would do a thing that is improper.” 
“ She has a soft skin, yellow as 
gold, and teats that a^e wide apart 
and long enough for anybody to handle. 
“ Correct. And there isn’t a cow or heifer here that 
has not these same essential qualifications ” 
“ You must have a good bull to secure such a uni¬ 
form lot of heifers ? ” 
“ I have, indeed ! I was truly fortunate in getting 
a strain of blood that is exceptional in size and meat¬ 
iness, quantity of milk yield, shape and size of udder 
and teats and general comeliness as well as great 
richness of milk. He is Glynllyn Boy, 22396, by 
Eurotas Duke by Duke of Darlington by Eurotas, and 
is a reliable prodigy—a Jersey bonanza in sure breed¬ 
ing and unfailing habit of 6iring deep, rich milkers of 
the merits mentioned, llis dam was Sweet Ilazel, a 
cow that tested 17 pounds 1 ounce of butter on grass 
in seven days, and all his get resemble both lines of 
ancestry.” He is shown in the engraving, Fig. 183. 
“ I see you have t ! ght floors ? ” 
“ Yes. I put them down recently, after making up 
my mind that manure is a source of dairy profit I can¬ 
not afford to sacrifice.” 
“ Ah ! there is one of the best cows in the lot. Am 
I wrong ? ” 
“ Not a bit. This is Messey Polo, and she has yielded 
5 pounds 13 ounces of butter in five milkings, and 
sometimes gives as high as 37 pounds of milk in a 
single day. Matina of Riverside—get up here and 
show your points, sleepiness!—has gone as high as 38 
pounds, 2 pounds 11 ounces of which have been butter, 
solid and sweet ” 
What Becomes of Young Stock? 
“ Does it pay to raise your own cows ? ” 
“ It pays me, because I cannot buy any such, and 1 
cannot afford to keep poor ones. A man c nnot buy 
a cow like mine in a day’s drive. Such animals are 
not on the market. I know this from trying to buy, 
and the ease with which I sell surplus stock. I have 
but 125 ac es of tillable land and cannot keep all the 
increase of my herd ” 
“ What do you do with your bull calves, for like the 
rest of us I suppose you get one occasionally.” 
“ Those from my very best cows I raise. I have 
sold several to my neighbors at reasonable prices 
always. For two of wnose breeding I was especially 
proud 1 obtained $100 each as calves. One, Aurarias 
Posris, now heads the fine herd owned by Mrs. 
Wm. D. Black, of New Milford, Conn., and the 
other the herd of Gerrish Newell, of Great Birrington, 
A Jersey Creamer, Glynllyn Boy, 22396. 
Mass. The latter is registered as Aurarias Duke.” 
“ You raise all your heifers ? ” 
“ No. I test the cows constantly, and if a young 
one fails to come up to the standard of richness or has 
other defects I fatten her calves. To put inferior 
animals that I would not have in my herd upon the 
market is as impolitic as dishonest.” 
A Look at the Books. 
“ You make the farm pay, but how would it be if no 
sales of stock were made ? ” I inquired. 
“ Let’s go in and look over the books. They tell the 
story,” was the reply. “ My father tried in vain to 
make the place pay as a grain farm. When I took 
hold of it six years ago, I knew that I could not com¬ 
pete with the West in that line, and tried something 
more promising.” 
“ Were Jerseys your first move ? ” 
“ Yes. Oddly enough, I did not have to blunder in 
other directions before I ‘ struck oil,’ or money fats, 
as they proved to be in this case,” he laughingly 
rejoined. 
“ You began then in 1887 ? ” 
“Yes, with only eight cows, and most of these 
grades and natives. The first year I fattened calves, 
and cleared but a trifle after paying my expenses 
from an income of $38 per head. We saw we couldn’t 
hold the fort in this way, my wife and I, for we go 
hand and glove in everything, and next year bought a 
deep-setting creamery, and increased the herd to 10 
cows. We got an income of $43 per cow, but were 
only satisfied with the fact that we were to have some 
better butter cows later. In 1889 we began selling 
cream to the local creamery, and got $52 per head. 
The year following we boldly tried 12 cows, and got 
$65 from each for the cream sold to a New York 
hotel.” 
“ That was a good return, and you were probably 
satisfied.” 
“ Well, we were pleased. In 1891 we changed to a 
different house to which we have been sending ever 
since, receiving $87 per head the first year, and $103 
the second A still greater gross return is anticipated 
this year, not from an increase of price, but because 
the cows are better and the heifers are older.” 
“ How many have you now ?” 
“ Fourteeen, counting heifers, and all but three are 
registered.” 
“ Have you the record of a single month ?” 
“ I have a record for last Novem¬ 
ber, but it is not a creditable one, 
although we were milking 13 cows. 
The income was $127.65. Three 
were two-year-old heifers, and three 
more cows were nearly dry, being 
due to calve in six weeks.” 
“ Has the system impoverished 
the land ?” 
“On the contrary, the farm in¬ 
creases in richness constantly. Last 
year I sold at a good price quite a 
large surplus of hay that had ac¬ 
cumulated.” 
What the Cows Eat. 
“ What do you feed ? ” 
“I get the cows on the grass as 
early as possible in spring, and 
keep them on nothing else as long 
as possible. Later they begin with 
a little wheat bran or middlings 
with the feed, and, as necessity in¬ 
creases, the quantity is increased to 
four quarts. Usually the fall rains 
Fig. 183. make the feed good again, and the 
cows go for a second term without 
grain. The extreme winter feed is seven quarts of 
grain, compounded as follows : Two pounds of cotton¬ 
seed meal, 4% quarts of cob meal and bran, half and 
half. My aim is not to drive the machinery hard, but 
to get a large money crop from bulky farm foods that 
are cheap, nutritious and peculiarly adapted to the 
cow’s economy. In this category I include corn 
fodder, pasturage and ensilage. The last I could not 
do without. My silo holds upwards of 100 tons, and 
never gives me any too much.” 
“ May I ask what prices you receive ? ” 
“ We get 15 cents per quart for cream and four cents 
for milk.” 
“ You sell some milk ? ” 
“ Wc are shipping one can per day to the hotel men¬ 
tioned. The prices named are net. ” 
Mr. Van Deusen is a wide-awake young man, as his 
conversation indicates, and luckily he has a suitable 
helpmeet. Mrs. Van Deusen has done all her own 
work in the house, besides taking care of a flock of 75 
fine, thotoughbred, Single-comb Brown Leghorn hens, 
some of which score as h gh as 96 points. Mr. Van 
Deusen does all the outdoor work, excepting during 
seven or eight months of the year, when a hired man 
is kept, at an average expense of $16 per month and 
board. The income from the cows is augmented con¬ 
siderably by eggs, veal, pork, etc. uollister s\gk. 
“Half the Herd!” 
VOL. LII. No. 2272. 
NEW YORK, AUGUST. 12, 1893. 
