W.D. Carpenter  G>.  Syracuse,  N.Y. 
November  11,  1816. 
New  England  Notes 
Purebred  Cows  for  Plain  Farmers?  boring  breeders,  blit  he  can  do  business  on 
T>  TT  his  own  account,  according  to  his  fitness. 
lAur  n.  Pedigree  may  help  the  success  of  the 
Secretary  C.  M.  Winslow,  of  the  Ayr-  purebred  COW,  but  the  owner's  perform- 
shire  Breeders*  Association,  was  not  so  alone  decides  the  results  of^the  busi- 
sure  of  the  place  of  the  small  farmer  in 
the  line  of  keeping  purebred  stock.  “If  r>  H1GH  PKTC*S  FOR  guernseys. 
one  can  have  only  a  small  herd,”  said  .  V  isits  of  prominent  breeders  in  eonnec- 
Col.  Winslow,”  it  might  be  better  to  keep  ^ ^  IfS  fW  ftave 
,  ,  ’  .  .  ,  resulted  in  sales  of  lugh-class  New  Eng- 
grade  stock.  Raising  and  selling  pure-  land  stock.  The  recent  auction  at  the  F. 
breds  is  quite  a  line  of  itself,  and  the  Botlirop  Ames  farm  disposed  of  74  of  the 
small  farmer  would  have  to  go  through  it  famous  Guernsey  herd  for  about  $80,000. 
,,  ,,  TT  i  it  .  i  .  bales  ranged  from  $100  for  bull  calves,  (o 
all  just  the  same.  He  should  at  least  ?0(150  for  tbe  Langwater  Dairy¬ 
ing  i  a  herd  large  enough  to  keep  a  bull,  maid,  a  typical  Guernsey  in  appearance, 
T i  is  not  very  expensive  to  get  started  awarded  first  and  second  at  the  National 
with  a  heifer  or  two  bred  to  good  sires.  Dairy  Show  of  J 012,  and  she  won  first 
Ti.  T  .  ,  ,  ,  ”  T  ,,  and  the  grand  championship  at  Ihe 
It  I  were  to  keep  only  a  few  cows  I  would  Brockton  fair  of  the  same  year,  rier 
buy  grades  and  change  from  time  to  time  record  for  8(55  days  is  13,747.50  pounds 
to  keep  up  the  milk  supply.  With  pure-  Iff  milk,  with  070.12  pounds  of  butter  fat. 
■"*  m  brewing  stock  mo*  be  kept  4 AlS-Shf™ 
right  along,  whether  fresh  m  milk  or  dry,  $5,000  for  Langwater  Generous,  sold  to 
and  the  milk  yield  of  a  small  herd  would  John  »S.  Ames. 
be  too  uneven  to  supply  a  regular  trade  potato  dav  at  mount  iiope. 
in  ruilk  or  butter.”  T  i.  •  .i.  i  .  .  , ,  . . 
~  .  Interest  in  the  unusual  potato  methods 
Somewhat  the  same  views  were  ex-  and  results  at  Mount  Hope  Farm,  Berk- 
pressed  by  P.  M.  Harwood,  head  of  the  shite  Go..  Mass.,  led  to  a  field  day  last 
Massachusetts  Dairy  Bureau:  “There  is  mon^'  attended  by  several  hundred  grow- 
,,  .  .  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  .  ers  from  New  England  and  the  Middle 
nothing  in  purebred  stock  for  small  far-  states.  Tbe  system  illustrates  two  main 
mors.  I  have /tried  it  and  sold  out  as  soon  points;  seed  selection  and  full  maturity, 
as  I  could.  If  a  man  were  a  good  judge  ^lr-  Prentice  is  trying  to  solve  the  prob- 
it  i»  possible  be  might  rick  „p  *  *£ 
young  stock  cheaply  from  farmers  and  bills.  Each  group  of  hills  is  marked  and 
breeders  in  the  small  hack  towns,  raise  it  numbered  to  indicate  the  source  of  the 
and  sell  at  a  profit,  or  use  it  to  start  at  Ket‘c!- .  ^  I'oni  40,000  hills  thus  planted, 
it,  it-  j  t  seed  ir  chosen  from  the  best  hills*  of  the 
regular  breeders*  prices,  and  most  of  them  besfc  gPftUps>  8om„  of  tho  srmips  JJ 
wouldn  t  know  what  to  do  with  it  when  the  presence  of  the  visitors  yielded  as 
they  got  it.  To  make  it  pay  a  man  must  high  as  1,015  bushels  to  tbe  acre,  reckon - 
know  how  to  buy  it,  how  to  keep  it  and  V**  *F<>m .th»  Gccujded  by  the  12  to 
,  .  ..  u  t  i.i.  15  hllls  in  !1  group.  Effect  of  seed  ma- 
hov  to  sell  it.  Most  of  the  well-known  turity  was  shown  on  a  larger  scale.  Heed 
herds  belong  to  rich  men.  I  could  hardly  potatoes  of  the  “Rural  New-Yorker”  va- 
ndvise  farmers  to  go  into  it  except  under  riety  from  stock  dug  about  JO  weeks  from 
sneebil  mmlifimm  >*  planting  yielded  at  the  rate  of  about  600 
lA  conditions.  bushels,  ns  compared  with  a  yield  at  the 
One  of  the  leading  exhibitors  at  the  rate  of  about  800  bushels  from  seed  of 
show  was  A.  A.  Marsh,  of  Iowa.  Ilis  the  same  variety  that,  had  been  dug  15 
beautiful  herd  won  almost  a  lion’s  share  weeks  from  planting,  the  results  showing 
*  ,  .  ...  quite  strongly  in  favor  of  well-matured 
or  awards  m  the  various  classes  in  which  seed  potatoes. 
its  members  were  entered.  “Yes,”  said  . _ 
Mr.  Marsh,  “the  breeders  encourage  the  Destructive  Gray  Squirrels 
farmers  in  our  neighborhood  to  raise  stock  I  understand  it  is  against  the  law  to 
voting  heifers  “with  ’  “fam  ?  Sim  will  SP  «ra.r  squirrels,  but  there  is  a  party  of 
take  care  of  them  right.  We  fun,  sh  S2  ^ich  ar*  5 
vice.  He  has  the  milk  and  the  hull  T*  ,!<'!11TS 
calves;  we  have  the  heifer  calves,  and  think  „i  i  *  V  V**”  ‘Hiv°lt  ^ 
take  the  cow  hack  at  the  cud  of  three  .  S  m  *  p, ^  w>!o  L  ‘ > 
years  or  when  we  have  a  customer.  If  E  to  1 
the  cow  dies  the  breeder  loses.  We  like  ,vill  not  lose  them  all?  F.  x  c 
to  sell  to  farmers  located  close  by  so  we  Massachusetts, 
know  where  we  can  find  some  of  our  stock 
when  we  need  it.  Farmers  that  take  our  The  Massachusetts  law  on  gray  squir- 
heifors  to  keep  are  business  dairymen  and  rcla  is  contained  in  the  Acts  of  1911. 
they  do  it  to  moke  a  profit,  on  the  milk  p,,  .  „  _ _  ,  ,  .  .  ,  - 
while  the  cow  is  with  them,”  172»  as  amendcd  **  the  Apts  of 
These  brief  interviews  seemed  to  cover  4.913,  Chapter  270.  The  first  two  see¬ 
the  views  of  most  of  the  officials  and  tions  are  in  point  and  are  as  follows : 
’!!e  ,fTini«n  ?at,the  Section  1.  It  shall  he  unlawful  except 
large  breeder  had  an  -advantage  when  only  between  the  twelfth  day  of  October 
competing  in  the  great  shows  because  lie  am]  the  twelfth  day  of  November  of  each 
could  select  from  his  numerous  herd  the  year,  both  days  inclusive,  to  hunt,  take  or 
ailima,L  aur  .t  u’Hp  15  IP  1  ‘ght  con-  pin  a  gmy  squirrel,  or  to  sell,  or  offer  for 
sale-  or  t0  havo  iu  possession  for  the  pur- 
have  made  a  specialty  of  learning  the  ins  n  ’  <lf  ^.i,,  n  ’  _  Rnilipwl  wh#>r '  - 
f  -  Skill  in  iittiiic  animals  for  the  Kaor  km'„*  Ito  (X  or  kill  at  any 
show  room  was  acknowledged  to  be  a  good  time  a  gray  ^./uirrel  by  means  of  a  trap, 
P?1*"  °  uYcf*  ato.riPS  ^<M,r  *°  d  net  or  snare,  or  for  the  purpose  of  killing 
fn  Iwr i'll!  WA°  r?,l,.naow  Y ']  ^  a  graJ*  squirrel  to  construct  or  set  a  trap, 
in  the  show  line.  A  Guernsey  man  had  gnare  or  net 
come  to  n  Htate  show  with  his  very  small  '  sw.i *>  Thic  nnf  ci.nii  „,„viv  1 4 
Xf1 iTi "■» s?,r r',., « 
«;■  ii;sr  Iin,"  w 
man  had  come  to  a  stock  show  some  ll  ai T" 
years  ago  with  his  wife  and  both  became  S  t  Lt  ™  •  1.7 
enthusiasts.  Starting  in  a  very  small  w!J^i  A,.AI’  0  ohcl  mowing  culti- 
way  he  now  owns  one  of  the  best  herds  I  ’  ,  ’ 
in  the  Htate,  and  one  of  the  best  and  most  You  will  note  that  by  section  you 
prosperous  farms,  and  is  an  officer  of  the  may  kill  squirrels  by  cither  trapping, 
Htate  Breeders'  Association,  The  market  shooting  or  poisoning  if  they  are  damag- 
for  purebred  stock  seems  good  at  present.  ...... 
One  of  the  exhibitors  who  was  selling  out  tae  trmt'  G’  F- 
rather  than  ship  hack  his  herd  to  the  As  a  general  report  corn  was  about  a 
West  was  getting  $150  to  $500  for  his  normal  crop,  and  it  was  harvested  in  good 
young  stock  and  $200  to  $000  for  the  shape  this  Fall,  as  there  was  no  frost  to 
others.  Many  young  hulls  were  sold  at  hurt  anthing  until  Oct.  14.  But  the  po- 
$500  to  $1,000,  and  several  at  around  tato  crop  is  another  proposition  with  us, 
$5,000  each,  these  being  prize  winners  or  as  they  are  rotting  badly  in  the  fields, 
of  prize  herds.  Many  breeders  reported  hut  otherwise  a  fair  yield.  Apple  crop  is 
unlimited  demand  for  young  stock,  others  very  good  and  well  colored.  Brices  un¬ 
noted  heifers  selling  promptly,  but  that  settled  as  yet,  many  are  storing  their  best 
bull  calves  were  often  a  drug  on  the  apples.  The  principal  subject  of  these 
market.  On  the  whole  one  gets  the  iin-  days  is  milk.  There  have  been  several 
pression  that  dairy  stock  breeding  has  meetings  in  this  locality,  and  most  of  the 
become  very  highlv  specialized.  It  is  producers  are  still  holding  out  for  50c. 
sometimes  a  rich  man’s  hobby,  carried  on  per  can  of  S  V.  quarts  delivered  in  Boa- 
vithout  much  regard  for  expense  and  tak-  ton.  This  is  for  8.70  test  of  butter  fat, 
ing  its  return  in  the  satisfaction  of  owner-  But  of  course  there  ar(Tsome  weak  broth- 
ship  and  pride  of  successful  competition,  ers  who  insist  upon  helping  out  the  con¬ 
it  is  also  a  business  in  which  shrewd  tractors  in  Boston.  This  is  the  begin- 
hreeders  are  making  money.  The  pure-  ning  of  the  fourth  week  of  the  hold-out 
I  red  stock,  it  is  agreed,  must  he  well  cared  for  50c.  The  contractors  increased  tbe 
for  to  Teach  full  value.  Home  strains,  It  price  of  milk  le.  per  quart  to  the  con- 
was*  asserted,  have  been  too  much  Inbred,  sumer  in  Boston  and  then  started  out  to 
to  possess  the  same  degree  of  vigor  as  divide  that  one  cent  as  follows:  %  to 
grade  stock  and  some  purebred  stock  is  producer.  %  to  contractor,  and  the  pro- 
mere  or  less  infertile,  but  as  a  rule  such  ducers  want  that  other  %c.,  or  in  other 
difficulties  do  no!  appear  to  be  considered  words,  they  want  the  lc.  split  even,  and 
very  serious.  The  small  farmer  seems  tbe  contractor  doesn’t  seem  to  see  ’t  that 
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