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THA T A YRSHIRE CREAM PROBLEM. 
Regarding the grade Ayrshire heifers 
mentioned on page 65, I think a good deal 
depends on the sire. If the mothers were 
Ayrshire bred to a Holstein sire he 
would better dispose of them, and get 
something else. If, on the other hand, 
the sire was Jersey or Guernsey, they 
would give very good milk, and be profit¬ 
able to keep. Get a Jersey or Guernsey 
sire, and as the herd increases in num¬ 
ber the milk will produce more cream. 
The amount of cream taken from a 40- 
quart can of milk varies considerably with 
different cows, from four to five quarts 
being a fair average. The amount of ma¬ 
chinery required depends upon the amount 
of help he has, and size of the bottles. 
If quart bottles and plenty of help he 
can do the work without machinery after 
the cream is separated; if one-half pint 
bottles are used a bottle-filler will be 
necessary. He must have power of some 
kind to operate his separater, as a heifer 
in a tread power would get too tired run¬ 
ning the milk necessary to produce 80 
quarts of cream. By all means the better 
plan would be to buy the milk if the 
neighbors can be depended on to feed the 
cows for quality instead of quantity of 
milk. I would advise the inquirer to be¬ 
gin in a small way, and as he acquires ex¬ 
perience increase the amount of cream 
produced until he meets the demands of 
his customer. F. r. hunt. 
Tf H. W. E.’s Ayrshires give four per 
cent milk they will pay very well to sell 
cream from. If not it would be advisa¬ 
ble to replace them with high-grade Jer¬ 
seys. A good milk cooler is absolutely 
necessary if the cream is to be bottled. 
The sooner the cream is cooled from the 
temperature of the cow to about 45 de¬ 
grees the longer it will keep sweet. I 
think three cents per quart very near the 
cost of making milk. As a 40-quart can of 
good milk will make from six to eight 
quarts of good thick cream I think IT. W. 
E. will have a very good thing by buying 
his milk at three cents per quart for the 
year, and the nearby farmers will have 
the work of tending the cows. 
JOHN H. JANNEV. 
PRODUCTIVE POWER BREEDERS. 
It is interesting to read on page 33 of 
I he R. N.-Ys the views of some of the 
best breeders of Guernsey cattle on a 
fancy point. Breeders feel that it is 
no discredit to have a black-nosed animal 
for productive power, but for sale pur¬ 
poses, as Mr. Hill says, it makes $100 
difference. Now can the Guernsey breed¬ 
ers breed for productive power and the 
fancy points at the same time, and win 
marked success in every respect? It is 
like breeding these dual-purpose animals 
that we hear so much about. In breeding 
we should have a specific purpose in view. 
We should not breed along different lines. 
And I was in hopes that this was the 
specific object of the Guernsey breeders, 
as evinced by the advanced registry sys¬ 
tem. But we find they have their weak 
points, as shown by these articles. 
I am resting now in the feeling that 
the Holstein-Friesian breeders are the 
true productive power breeders. To be 
sure, we have read of the Holstein-Frie¬ 
sian being good for both beef and dairy 
purposes, but did you ever know of one 
being bought to be bred for this dual 
object? It would have been against her 
true characteristics. She has never been 
bred, to my knowledge, for beef pur¬ 
poses. All animals that have been im¬ 
ported have come because they have been 
great producers, or because their line 
of ancestry were great producers. The 
specific purpose of the Holstein-Friesian 
breeders has been to breed for productive 
power. This object has been fostered 
by the great milk records of our animals, 
and an added zest to this purpose wai 
made at the establishing of the advanced 
registry system. We look with pride to 
the records of famous cows of the past, 
of our breeding for productive power; 
Pietertje 2nd, for instance. She milked 
30,318 pounds 8 ounces of milk in a year. 
her best daily yield being 100 pounds and 
best average for a month 106 pounds, the 
twelfth month 57 pounds 4 ounces. Her 
great daughter Milla, or Pietertje 3d, 
milked 113 pounds in one day. It was 
only last April that Aaggie Cornucopia 
Pauline made a world’s record of 34.31 
pounds of butter at less than five years of 
age. 
DeKol 2 nd has an A. R. O. record of 
26.02 pounds of butter in a week, and 
she has a list of sons that no cow can 
beat for producing qualities, as well as 
being the head of that noted line of pro¬ 
ducing bulls, namely, Paul DeKol, DeKol 
2 nd's Paul DeKol, and Paul Beets DeKol. 
Paul DeKol is the sire of 37 A. R. O. 
daughters, six with records over 20 
pounds, and 15 sons who have 91 A. R. O. 
daughters. DeKol 2 nd’s Paul DeKol, the 
sire of the world record cow, is the sire 
of 41 A. R. O. daughters, 19 with records 
over 20 pounds, the average being 23.2.1 
pounds, 37 whose records average 20 
pounds, 18 sons who have 115 A. R. O. 
daughters. He has 39 A. R. O. sis¬ 
ters 20 brothers who have 128 A. R. O. 
daughters. Paul Beets DeKol is sire of 
10 A. R. O. 23-pound plus daughters, 33 
other A. R. O. daughters, three sons 
who have three A. R. O. daughters. He 
has 41 A. R. O. sisters, 19 with records 
over 20 pounds, and 19 brothers who 
have 79 A. R. O. daughters. This is only 
one example of breeding on and on for 
productive power. Many Holsteins are 
bought on pedigree alone as showing 
great productive power. We do not care 
whether our animals are nearly white, 
like old DeKol 2 nd, or nearly black, like 
Helena Burke. The main thing in our 
minds is to get animals that have the 
conformation, and the ability to do the 
business, and the fancy points will take 
care of themselves. w. m. knox. 
A Hen Report. —Our White Leghorns are 
doing quite well in egg production at present, 
one-third of them laying each day. This is 
a fair record when we explain that meat food 
lias been given but a few weeks. Our yearling 
hens are doing fully as well as our early- 
hatched pullets, and we attribute this to the 
early moult, which can be brought about by 
very light feeding for a week or 10 days, 
which reduces the weight of the hen and 
causes the feathers to drop very fast. This 
is followed by heavy feeding of food rich in 
protein, such as green bone or beef scraps, 
wheat or bran ; also sunflower seeds are high¬ 
ly recommended. 'This supplies the material 
for the new feathers, and when fully feath¬ 
ered out and in good flesh they will commence 
their woik for the Winter, producing high- 
priced eggs. We think the secret of Winter 
egg production lies in comfortable houses, 
clean water, a variety of grains fed in clean 
litter on the floors, causing the hens to take 
plenty of exercise, and plenty of cut clover 
and green bone or beef scraps. 
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