Vol. LXX. No. 4111. 
NEW YORK, AUGUST 12, 1911. 
WEEKLY, $1.00 PER YEAR 
HOW I BUILT MY DAIRY HERD. as it is called, the prepotency of the bull, is the dairy was then that we really learned which were our 
p. . f p . | rv • character of the grandmother and great-grand- “best cows,” and were surprised in many of them. 
3111 Ory 0 3 F3C 1C3 3irym3n. mothers on both sides of his pedigree. He is the No. of Lbs. Average Lbs. but- Value but- Age of 
I have worked out the greater part of the time for stored-up result of what lies back of him. I saved cow test tor fat ter fat cow yrs. 
20 years, with the exception of three years in Frank- all the heifer calves from my best cows: that is so ...'ll 1.8 $131.12 4 
lin County creamery, and two years in the mill busi- far as I knew them to be the best. I kept the first 5 ......8627 4.3 371.3 130.20 4 
ness, all on farms, and I must add, for “various kinds sire four years, and ought to have kept him longer. s 7402 4.40 328.9 16.77 6 
of farmers.” Possibly this may have been to my Not wanting to inbreed and trying to practice econ- . go *2 '■>-!:) 1 i->o si 5 
advantage, but not wholly so. As a rule, if we like omy I sold him and bought another, of course I do 18 8441 4.3 363. 128.91 4 
th e man, we are apt to think his methods _ Some we had considered^ our best cows 
received a little less than $600 for my ' * Enosburg Cow Testing Association) of 
half. I built a silo the first year after A GRADE HOLSTEIN VERMONT MORTGAGE PAYER. Fig. 308. rny best producers. (Table shown 
coming here, and the second year .—.... , , . . ..._ n above.) 
and received better results from the 
same cows. I was not satisfied with 
what my cows were doing. I felt that 
improvement in that line must come 
from breeding up, instead of down. I 
read the farm papers and gathered 
everything I could, and it all pointed 
to the purebred sire. My cows were all 
breeds, no special one predominating. I 
finally decided to get a registered sire, 
but the breed I had not thought so 
much about. It was always more 
pleasure to me to milk a cow that gave 
a good mess of milk, and being quite 
in favor of raising hogs, as a soil 
builder, I concluded the Holsteins would 
suit me as well as any, and the Spring 
of 1906 I purchased a registered Plolstein bull. He 
proved to be a splendid type of the dairy breed. 
When a farmer thinks of buying a dairy bull to im- 
piove his herd, he should look to the individuality 
of the . bull, also the backing, not the “cheapness of 
the price.” Pie should try to buy a “future” of good 
quality that will run on for generations, and that will 
help increase the good effects of every future sire 
that may be used, and about the most reliable basis 
GRADE HOLSTEIN AT FOUR YEARS, 8627 POUNDS MILK, 
3760 POUNDS FAT. Fig. 309. 
not know with what results, although he is a fine 
bred animal and a splendid individual and has some 
very promising calves. I find at the end of five years 
I have raised the average 40 per cent with a very 
modest outlay. 
A little over one year ago we formed the Enos¬ 
burg Cow Testing Association, with 26 dairies, and 
were very fortunate in securing an efficient man in 
the person of Mr. L. P. Douglass. The work was 
of calculation, as to the power of transmission, or carried on without interruption the full yean It 
SEEDING VETCH IN INDIANA. 
I-Iow much seed of Hairy vetch should 
be sown per acre to insure a good cover 
crop to be plowed under in Spring? How 
many pounds in a bushel of seed? Can 
seed be sown with an ordinary wheat drill, 
and if so, how? L. c. s. 
Redkey, Ind. 
In corn it should be sown in August. 
In the open ground it should be sown 
by September 15, and it will then cover 
the ground before freezing weather. 
If sown in the corn in August it should 
not be pastured, but both stalks and 
vetch should be turned under in April. 
For turning under we use a three-horse 
plow with a rolling cutter. For soiling 
uses it should be sown at intervals from May 15 to 
September to give a succession. If wanted for hay it 
may be sown with oats in the Spring or with rye in 
the Fall. Some advocate sowing with wheat, but this I 
do not think advisable. In the corn a one-horse hoe or 
disk drill is used, the land having been plowed over 
once before sowing. In the open ground a two-horse 
drill is used (either a hoe or a disk). The same pre¬ 
caution is taken as to having the soil in the best pos¬ 
sible condition for receiving the seed. If the feed 
