1901 
79 
A LIVELY DAIRY KEETIHG. 
Connecticut Cow Owners Meet. 
The Connecticut Dairymen’s Association 
has nearly reached its majority. Its 
twentieth annual meeting was held in Hart¬ 
ford, January 15-16. The attendance was 
unusually large, and a goodly proportion 
of those present were young men under 30 
years of age, which Is an encouraging sign 
of the times. In his annual address. Presi¬ 
dent J. B. Noble stated that the Associa¬ 
tion existed solely for the practical side of 
dairying. Successful field meetings have 
been held at various farms, and a number 
of dairy institutes. Market Is good for 
first-class creamery butter, as western 
competition Is not increasing. Many In the 
West have gone back to beef breeding, as 
prices have Increased, and beef growing Is 
easier than dairying for the lazy farmer. 
Cost of production must be lowered, but 
quality must be maintained. There Is a 
good opportunity on the back farms to 
raise milch cows for the retail milkmen. 
John Gould, of Ohio, gave an Illustrated 
lecture, “Does Dairy Temperament Have 
a Type?” Mr. Gould said that the farmer 
is better versed In all other live stock upon 
the farm than he Is with the cow, which 
Is expected to make his money. He Illus¬ 
trated his talk by a dozen oil paintings 
and said that the Connecticut farmer 
should stop mixing breeds and stick to one 
breed to get profit out of his dairy. Mr. 
Gould then gave a descriptive picture of 
the type of cow that devotes all her energy 
to the making of beef, and contrasted her 
with the cow that devoted her energy to 
the making of butter, which instead of 
showing a pound of four-cent beef for the 
feed energy has a pound of butter at 20 
cents Instead. The best type of dairy cow, 
said Mr. Gould, Is the one that In con¬ 
formation is harmonious to the running 
horse. The characteristics of the run¬ 
ning horse In conformation were detailed 
by Mr. Gould, and then with the aid of 
the paintings he showed these character¬ 
istics in the cows which were known to 
devote their energy and nerve force to the 
making of milk and butter. Mr. Gould 
said that he did not champion any breed 
of cows, but In order to get the required 
amount of nerve power and energy he 
thought that the proper cow for the dairy 
should be bred along Jersey lines. He ad¬ 
vocated that the mixing of breeds be 
stopped. The farmer must stop adding 
new Infiuences to his herd and endeavor to 
get the Infiuences in the herd cut down to 
as few as possible, and have them work In 
harmony. The farmer should have a spe¬ 
cial cow for special purposes. He should 
decide the kind of a herd he wanted and 
then follow line breeding and stop hetero¬ 
geneous breeding. If the cow gives 3,200 
pounds of milk a year we pay $5 a year 
for associating with her, but If she doubles 
the quantity she pays $26 a year for asso¬ 
ciating with us. The production of milk 
Is the product of the stimulation of nerve 
force. 
Dr. N. S. Mayo, of Connecticut Agricul¬ 
tural College, talked on The Health of 
Dairy Cows. He emphasized the fact that 
as the boy is father to the man, so the 
calf Is mother to the cow. We should 
start with healthy calves, and keep them 
so. Give them plenty of pure air, plenty 
of exercise, and keep them in the sun¬ 
shine. In the words of a popular hymn; 
"Let the blessed sunshine In.” Fresh air 
and sunshine are the greatest enemies of 
disease, while darkness breeds disease. 
Don't breed too young. In reply to a ques¬ 
tion from Mr. Hoard, Dr. Mayo said that 
heifers should not calve until three years 
of age. Gov. Hoard maintained that at 
that age they were very likely to lose 
the milking tendency, and to be beefy. 
Grow up the calves separate from the 
cows; have a different barn. Most cases 
of human tuberculosis have been started 
before 21 years of age. If we can raise 
the calf and have her perfectly healthy at 
maturity we are well on the right road. 
Cows should have separate stalls, and If 
watered in the barn separate'basins. Stables 
should be thoroughly cleansed twice a Win¬ 
ter with disinfectants, and whitewashed. 
This In addition to the careful dally 
cleaning. Cows coming Into such stables 
will think they have a new lease of life. 
Mangers should separate so that one cow 
cannot slobber in her neighbor’s manger. 
Separator skim-milk was said to be better 
for calves than that set In pans. Calves 
in Connecticut are fed too much, and not 
often enough. 
Dr. Jordan, of the Geneva Experiment 
Station, gave a sharp, witty address on 
the Commercial Relations of the Farmer. 
He showed how the farmer had departed 
from the days of old, when everything he 
needed and used was produced on his own 
farm; he now buys almost everything. 
This Is often to his own detriment. Dr. 
Jordan said that the farmer should know 
what he Is buying, and Its value. Buy on 
Its merits alone, not on testimonials. 
Don’t believe any of them. Have nothing 
to do with them. He carefully and fully 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
explained the difference between the two 
great classes of feed by-products; those 
wherein the residue Is a better food than 
the original grain, such as the gluten 
meals and feeds, cotton-seed meal and 
linseed meal, and the foods which are so 
poor after the parts the manufacturer 
wishes are taken out. Among this class 
are the different varieties of oat feeds 
and feeds using proprietary names. These 
are fixed up to dispose of some product 
which could not be sold on Its own merits. 
The basis of many of these Is oat hulls. 
They are having a big sale, but are not 
worth what they are usually sold for. 
Better let them alone, as the simple state¬ 
ment of their analysis doesn’t represent 
their contents, and one of these foods may 
have a fair amount of crude protein, but 
much protein and carbohydrates that are 
indigestible. Mixed feeds are also uncer¬ 
tain quantities and liable to contain In¬ 
soluble refuse from the mills. h. o. m. 
Beet Sugar Pulp. —I am not author¬ 
ity regarding the feeding of sugar-beet 
pulp, as I have never fed it, although 
only 35 miles from the beet sugar fac¬ 
tory. I have given the matter some con¬ 
sideration. I would have to haul the 
pulp three miles up grade from the rail¬ 
road, and as the feed contains a great 
deal of water, there is much objection 
to doing this. The freight on so much 
water is also quit* an item. It Is claim¬ 
ed that silage can be provided for from 
$2 to $3 per ton. If so there can be lit¬ 
tle profit in paying |1 a ton for pulp, 
paying the freight for any considerable 
distance, and doing a lot of hard, dis¬ 
agreeable work in handling and feed¬ 
ing, to get a feeding stufi of less than 
half the feeding value of silage. I have 
no doubt about the profit of feeding the 
pulp by those who are rightly situated, 
and whether a person is rightly situated 
or not he must decide for himself. 
H. H. L. 
An Illinois Jersey Herd. —We have 
the only Jersey herd in our county, and 
also the only silos and steam-power 
creamery. Our herd now numbers 90, 
young and old. With this herd and the 
other farm animals, rotation of crops 
does not trouble us. Feeding our cattle 
silage with nitrogenous foods in grain, 
we have the best manure that can be 
produced, and a large quantity dressed 
30 acres last year, and will, no doubt, 
dress 40 this year. We use a spreader, 
so we know just what we can do. From 
50 acres of corn and sorghum last Fall 
we put up 400 tons of silage, and enough 
fodder to run cattle through to grass. 
We shall have 75 or 100 tons of silage 
for Summer feeding when dry wea*^her 
strikes us. While we have our silos i''r 
our dairy herd we also use silage fo” ail 
other stock, and find it a most exceht.. 
food—horse barn, pigsty and h^nyards. 
We are now wholesaling our butter 
product at 22 cents; did get 24, but all 
butters are off in price. Our herd is 
bred upon the farm. All heifers are 
kept till they freshen, and tested. None 
but profitable animals are kept; we sell 
others to butchers. We find that silage 
fed to beef animals puts on flesh faster 
than feeding the usual dry feeds. We 
feed eight to 12 good Jersey steers each 
Winter, and even at the reduced price 
we receive for them they pay well for 
all foods consumed, and in the event of 
dressing one for our own use we find 
them superior to any beef we can buy. 
Monmouth, Ill. buff jersey. 
are the standard of exoellence. Asthejr 
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they always been 
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