B98 
August 24, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
BUYING HIGH-PRICED COWS. 
I have been breeding the cheapest class 
of registered Holstein stock three to four 
years; they cost me $35 to $100 each as 
calves when I started in. Now, as 1 think 
1 know more about the different strains, 
breeding and how to care for them better, 
] am thinking of adding two or three head 
(two heifers and a bull) to my herd that 
will cost $200 to $300 each. It seems a 
large price to me, and an enormous price 
to my neighbors, because they drift along 
keeping ordinary scrub stock. The aver¬ 
age registered cow is a better producer than 
the scrub, and all surplus stock sells at a 
far better price. Would you think best for 
me to make the move? I have part grade 
and some registered cows and a registered 
bull now; the bull’s two granddams’ com¬ 
bined milk record for one week is over 
1100 pounds; butter 54 pounds. I pre¬ 
fer the Holstein cow. c. H. 
It would not be a safe thing to indi¬ 
cate which of the Holstein families is 
the cheaper class; so I will say that, 
next to the dairy heredity of the cow, 
her feeding, care, and development from 
birth to the five-year-old form, is the 
most important, and to get great cows 
these two things must be worked in 
unison. A man may pay any price he 
may feel inclined to hazard for stock, 
and any number of famous ancestors on 
both sides may figure, but the care and 
development of the heifer from young 
calf to full cowhood, is yet very largely 
the determining factor in success. If 
C. H., who refers to cheap classes of 
stock, means stock with pedigrees more 
prominent than performance, lie will 
wisely let such go, and get into the 
families of the breed that not only for 
one generation have made creditable 
records but many generations until 
large production has become dominant 
in that combination of family. C. H. 
can venture on long prices for founda¬ 
tion stock, and then feeding and de¬ 
veloping as is demanded, he will, nine 
times out of 10, get a satisfactory re¬ 
sult, and now and then a champion. It 
is not more, and feeds of higher cost, 
that are needed, but the judicious feed¬ 
ing of standard foods in right propor¬ 
tions, and avoidance of the feast and 
famine plan; avoiding feeding excessive 
amounts, and inducing excessive flesh 
forming, at the expense of milk de¬ 
velopment. 
In choosing your foundation stock, 
study well in advance what you want. 
By this I mean, select the family of a 
breed, with the intention of staying 
with that breed and family. Nothing 
so runs counter current to permanence 
in results as being given to cross-breed¬ 
ing, and “out-crossing” with the families 
of a breed. It is harmony one wants 
in dairy qualities, and families of a 
breed are not very much better calcu¬ 
lated to “nick” to advantage than are 
breeds themselves. Crossing always 
introduces antagonisms that pull down, 
never build up. Now and then a man is 
found who has become so gifted that he 
can unite the better working qualities of 
two diverse classes, but then, there is 
an element of uncertainty that may re¬ 
veal itself later on, and bring confusion. 
1 may refer to the great Community 
Breeders’ Association near here who 
have been winning such great successes, 
lately culminating in developing three 
world's champions in one herd, and all 
from the fact that they are all breeding 
DeKols. The three cows referred to are 
simply the results of close breeding of 
DeKol blood and one strain of it, with 
the result that these cows are bred to 
do one thing, and so little is there left 
of inferior influence, they have a hered¬ 
ity so strong, the dairy temperament so 
fixed, and prepotency so established, 
that these cows look alike as nearly as 
silk hats, and give rich milk as do the 
100 other cows of the herd. What is 
true of one herd is a controlling force 
in other herds, a stability that could 
never have been achieved had there 
been the usual American idea of mixing 
breeds, and families of breeds, so largely 
practiced the United States over, 
and so strongly in evidence why the 
average American dairy cow gives on 
an average 3,800 pounds of 3.4 per cent 
fat milk a year, when she should give 
8,000 pounds of 4 per cent milk. 
The drift of dairy sentiment is to 
have a well-bred cow with the papers, 
even for the commercial dairy. She 
eats no more, she gives three and often 
four times as much milk, and her heifer 
calf is at 24 hours old worth more to 
sell than a common dairy cow, and 
that, too, when the latter’s calf is sell¬ 
ing for a “bob” for $3. Fed and cared 
for as she should be the registered 
cow is the equal in health, as sure a 
breeder as any type of cow, and is 
wanted the world over as soon as she 
v has made good. 
tl'I-IE RURAk NEW-YORKER 
Yes, you can have grades that are 
good cows for the dairy, but they do 
not bring the prices, their calves are 
little inquired after, and grades they 
always will be. If a grade sire is used 
they are never better, for he transmits 
as many undesirable qualities as good 
ones, and breeding from a grade sire 
is always a retrograde. The only way 
an advance can be made and maintained 
is to have the best to be got registered 
sire and breed these grade heifers back 
to their own sire, and this to the second 
generation, so as to get one blood and 
influence, as nearly as possible. “Oh, if 
I go into such breeding the market will 
soon be overdone.” Has anyone ever 
met with such a condition either in 
dairy stock or produce? What is the 
lesson to-day? Cows at “higher than 
the moon” prices, butter and cheese out 
of reach, and milk costing the same as 
“soft drinks.” Go and get some fine- 
bred stock, with records behind them, 
feed and care for them well, and you 
will never regret it. Get into a breed¬ 
ers’ association if you can. There is a 
lot in association. It promotes, adver¬ 
tises and booms—all three, and you 
share with even the most noted breeder 
'in the society. John gould. 
Ohio. 
A FEW HOG NOTES. 
Fish for Hogs. 
I am feeding cooked fish waste to pigs. 
Is there anv danger in it? Can anything 
he added to the fish to make it more palat¬ 
able or better for the pigs? F. a. h. 
Jamestown, N. Y. 
F. A. H. does not say what else 
these pigs are getting. Cooked fish con¬ 
tains too much protein to be fed alone, 
and for best results ear corn, or better, 
cornmeal, should constitute the bulk of 
the ration. Without knowing how dry 
the cooked fish is one is at a loss to 
know how to combine the corn and fish, 
but as a tentative guide try one pound 
of fish to eight pounds of cornmeal or 
other ground grain. Such a ra' on will 
be quite palatable because better bal¬ 
anced. Provide the pigs with charcoal, 
ashes, slaked lime and salt, as well as 
pure water. High protein feeds like 
flesh, fish waste or tankage fed alone 
act almost like a poison to the pigs, and 
the remedy is to feed feeds rich in car¬ 
bohydrates, like corn, barley or rye, with 
the protein feeds. w. e. d. 
Lice on Hogs. 
Wbat shall I use to get rid of hog lice? 
These hogs are kept very clean, new pens 
with cement floors. We have never had this 
trouble before. L. v. f. 
Tenafly, N. J. 
You should provide a mud wallow for 
the hogs and treat each one with sheep 
dip, crude oil or kerosene emulsion. 
These remedies may be rubbed on with 
a cloth, sprayed on, or if the number 
of hogs is considerable the hogs should 
be dipped, using a dipping tank. Crude 
oil is the best remedy, and if a tank is 
used, partly fill the tank with water and 
pour several gallons of crude oil on top. 
A hog dipped into the tank gets a good 
dose of oil all over, and all lice and 
nits are killed. The pens and bedding 
should be kept clean, spray the walls and 
later whitewash them to make sure of 
the job. These hogs have become in¬ 
fested in some way with lice, but no 
great difficulty should be experienced in 
getting rid of them. w. E. p. 
Profit in Feeding. 
Wherein is the most profit, selling pigs 
when 12 weeks old at $4 apiece, or develop 
them to 150 to 200 pounds apiece and sell 
at seven cents per pound, when corn sells 
at 70 cents per bushel, and middlings at $28 
per ton ? n. R. 
Orrville, O. 
D. R. should keep those pigs and feed 
them out. If they weigh SO pounds each 
and are finished for sale at 200 pounds 
on corn at 70 cents per bushel and mid¬ 
dlings at $28 per ton, their total cost at 
selling time would be about $12; selling 
for $14 per head would leave a profit of 
$2 per head. On clover or Alfalfa pas¬ 
ture the profit would be much greater. 
Wrth pasture more corn and little or 
no middlings could be fed and at a 
profit of $3.50 per head. It must be 
borne in mind that in answering such a 
query as the above conditions and cases 
must be assumed and average results 
used; when fed out the pigs might do 
better or worse than here given credit 
'for, but with good treatment they should 
not disappoint the feeder. With us here, 
hogs are now worth $8 per hundred, 
but corn is worth 80 cents, so the profit 
should not differ greatly from the 
above figures. It would be of interest 
if D. R. should keep account of the feed 
consumed by these pigs if he decides 
to feed them out. w. e. d. 
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