1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
4o7 
MAPES, THE HEN MAN. 
Dairy Notes—O ur first year’s ex¬ 
perience with our small dairy of heif¬ 
ers has been quite satisfactory. From 
the eight heifers, all but one of which 
were two-year-olds, have been sold 
$676.60 worth of milk. Our two families 
use five quarts regularly every day, and 
often more. Had this been counted at 
same price as the rest it would have 
been a little better than $90 per head for 
milk alone. The milk has been mar¬ 
keted at one of the Borden stations at 
their regular rates. Not a bad showing 
for cows raised from calves rescued 
from the bob-veal wagon. The mature 
registered cows of Mr. Morse (page 229) 
did no better, if we eliminate the receipts 
for calves sold for breeding purposes. 
We only made milk as a side issue, and 
the cows have had no silage or roots, 
while the hay has been largely Timothy. 
In the earlier part of the season we fed 
from the same mixture of cornmeal and 
wheat middlings, equal parts, from 
which the breeding sows were fed, giv¬ 
ing two pounds per day while at pas¬ 
ture and eight pounds per day in Win¬ 
ter with hay. By December they 
began to get quite fat, and one 
or two showed some signs of 
garget. We then added gluten meal 
to the mixture, making it one-third each 
by weight of cornmeal, gluten meal and 
wheat middlings, giving eight pounds 
per day as before. All symptoms of 
garget soon disappeared, and they have 
developed into good-sized cows. In con¬ 
trast to this I would like to present the 
past year’s record of an Orange County 
dairy farm where milk production is not 
a side issue, but the chief source of in¬ 
come. 
The Farm. —This is one of the dairy 
farms which have made the county fam¬ 
ous for its butter and milk, and was 
owned for many years by the late Eg¬ 
bert Arnot. It contains 168 acres, most¬ 
ly in sod, very little plowing having 
been done for many years, heavy top¬ 
dressing with stable manure forming a 
tough *sod of Timothy, Red-top 
and other natural grasses. It 
was purchased one year ago for 
$12,500 by George Martin, a brother 
being also interested as part, 
owner, though not living at the farm. 
Old residents shook their heads at the 
idea of a young man attempting to make 
milk production profitable on such high- 
priced land. On this farm Mr. Martin 
produced $5,559.52 worth of milk the 
first year, selling to the Bordens at 
Middletown, N. Y. No silage was used 
and no soiling done; just dry feed and 
hay in Winter. 
The Cows. —The dairy consisted of 29 
cows in Summer and 51 in Winter. 
April 12, four cows were brought to the 
farm, to which were added 25 more 
April 21, and 22 more October 12. Here 
is the story as Mr. Martin gave it to me. 
“How much did these cows cost you?” 
“An average of between $64 and $65 
each, delivered on the farm.” 
“Where were they bought?” 
“In Herkimer and Madison Counties, 
the breed being largely Holstein. Many 
of them are about purebred Holsteins, 
though none of them is registered.” 
“What was your general policy in 
buying?” 
“We had some experience in buying 
cows in those counties as dealers, and 
knew pretty well where to look for good 
cows. In buying these cows our aim 
was first to find out which animals a 
farmer did not want to sell, 
hang around until we got him 
to put a price on them, and then 
buy them regardless of cost. In 
this way I got quite a number which 
have given me 60 pounds per day and 
over.” 
“How much help have you hired?” 
“One steady man in Summer and two 
in Winter, with a woman as extra 
milker most of the time. The whole 
expense for help, in'luding day help in 
haying, has been $504.” 
The Feed. —“How much hay did the 
farm produce?” 
“We cut 155 good big loads. We did 
not begin cutting until after July 4, as 
the season was very backward and fin¬ 
ished about August 1.” 
“What kind of feed have you used?” 
“Buffalo gluten meal, and maizeline 
mixed equal parts by weight, and a 
little cotton-seed meal.” 
“What is this maizeline?” 
“It is refuse from one of the factories 
where a breakfast food is made. It 
seems to be a kind of corn bran. It is 
not on the gluten order, I believe, and 
is very bulky. Some farmers call it toe¬ 
nail feed.” 
“How much do you feed per cow 
daily?” 
“Those in full milk get half a bushel 
per day of the mixed feed, in two feeds, 
and a little cotton-seed meal thrown on 
it. Those not in full milk get less, ac¬ 
cording to condition and flow of milk. 
We weighed a peck of this mixed feed, 
and found it weighed seven pounds.” 
“How much cotton-seed meal do you 
use?” 
“A good handful to each cow. The 
51 cows get half a bushel night and 
morning. They probably get an aver¬ 
age of about a pound each per day. 
This makes 15 pounds of grain feed per 
day as a maximum ration. 
“How much hay do they get?” 
“All they will eat up clean twice a 
day. In the early part of the Wintei 
we foddered three times a day, but the 
hay mow was lowering so fast we re¬ 
duced them to two fodderings.” 
“Did they slack off in milk yield when 
the allowance of hay was reduced?” . 
“Not to any noticeable extent.” 
“How about salt?” 
“I always give a little salt twice a day 
on top of the cotton-seed meal.” 
“How much exercise do they get?” 
“They have water in the buckets in 
the stable, but are turned into the yard 
every day rain or shine, where they 
also have a chance to drink.” 
“How many poor cows did you buy?” 
“We still have 44 of the original 51. 
Seven have recently been disposed of 
and replaced with others.” 
Advocates of silage and clover will 
have to hustle in order to beat this 
record from a picked-up lot of cows the 
first year. Had the year’s record been 
taken from May 1 instead of April 1, 
it would have been about $6,000. Last 
April’s milk check was only $81.40, while 
this April he is making about 17 cans 
of milk a day, of 40 quarts each. Mr. 
Martin has attended strictly to business, 
having only missed one feeding and two 
milkings in the entire year. The cows 
show the effect of good care and feed, 
and are now in much better condition 
than at the beginning of the year. A 
number of fine heifer calves are also 
being raised. “Such men are the salt 
of the earth.” The above remark was 
once made in my hearing by H. E. Cook, 
after we had looked over the farm and 
heard of a prominent and successful 
dairyman. Mr. Martin certainly de¬ 
serves a place in the same category. 
o. w. MAPES. 
Tubulars Find Gold 
in Milk 
Good butter is worth 20 to 30 cents a 
pound. Butter is worth only one 
cent a pound as stock food, yet farm¬ 
ers using gravity skimmers — pans 
and cans that leave half the cream in 
tne milk—feed that half the cream 
to stock, then wonder why dairy¬ 
ing don’t pay. 
Can’t find gold with¬ 
out digging. Can’t 
make dairying pay 
big profits without 
getting all the 
cream. 
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