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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock and Dairy 
HORSES FOR THE PHILIPPINES. 
The picture given below shows a Mor¬ 
gan stallion “Duke of Albany” in use at 
a breeding station at Virac. The gov¬ 
ernment is working to improve the 
agriculture of the Philippines in various 
ways. Silos have been built and filled, 
new varieties of corn introduced and 
seed breeding has been started. The 
profit in shipping alligator skins is being 
investigated, and all sorts of improve¬ 
ments are planned. There are about 
250,000 horses in the Archipelago, 
mostly of the small pony type. A larger 
horse is needed, yet it should be of 
much the same shape and style. Prob¬ 
ably the Morgan horse will do as well 
it, he takes the information therein con¬ 
tained in much the same way that the 
individual members of a congregation 
take the minister’s sermon, “It was a 
fine thing for the heathen and sinners, 
but unfortunately there were none of 
them here.” And all of this farm paper 
talk leads me up to the one, or rather 
two things that took the hardest, 
largest kinks out of our dairy business. 
I began to notice in the reports from 
agricultural colleges, in the farm papers 
and among the farmers’ institutes a 
growing tendency to talk about a cer¬ 
tain kind of cow as a “boarder.” I 
had had sufficient experience by this 
time to understand that the term 
A MORGAN HORSE FOR THE PHILIPPINES. 
to bring this improvement as any of 
the pure breeds. Certainly the horse 
here shown would make his mark in 
any community. 
THE KINKS IN A DAIRY FARM. 
How We Took Them Out. 
Part IV. 
Have you ever had the experience on 
a dreary day when the clouds looked 
thickest, of having a little ray of sun¬ 
light break through and go scurrying 
across the valley and away over the 
hills? Do you remember how just that 
one brilliant ray penetrated your very 
body and warmed you up until you 
could outsing a chorus of song birds? 
That’s just what happened to us. Just 
as the dark clouds of that calf enter¬ 
prise had the sun of success thoroughly 
covered a ray of light broke through. 
It broke through in the most unexpected 
of places, right through on the calves 
themselves, in fact, for we discovered 
that from the sale of those calves we 
had made a profit. The two-year-olds 
had been sold at a loss, but the year¬ 
lings and calves had not only made up 
that loss, but had given us a nice little 
profit besides. That profit on the sale 
of the calves was the ray of sunlight 
that we needed to warm us up once 
more to the dairy business. 
We learned in raising those calves 
two very necessary lessons 'in dairy 
farming. First, that we must have a 
good bull as well as good cows if we 
expected to raise good calves, and sec¬ 
ond, that there was a profit to be made 
in the calves purchased from our neigh¬ 
bors if we sold them at the right time. 
The first lesson we immediately took to 
heart and from the profits of the calf 
sales we purchased a registered Holstein 
bull calf of a heavy milk strain. No more 
heifers and cows from any old bull, 
for us. Thank you. We have had our 
lesson. I wish I could say that we were 
the first farmers to recognize the im¬ 
portance of the registered, purebred bull 
in our valley. I should consider that 
that alone would be sufficient glory for 
any farmer. We were not, however, the 
first. One other farmer of our valley 
saw the importance of the sire before 
we did, and was just a few months in 
advance of us with his registered ani¬ 
mal. Sioce then a dozen of our neigh- 
bore have purchased registered bulls of 
various strains, and I look for a vast 
improvement in the cattle of these hills. 
There is a world of information to be 
gleaned from the farm magazines. 
Especially is this true for a man who 
vs new to the business of farming. New 
ideas appeal to such a farmer. On the 
contrary, your lifelong farmer seldom 
r.ads a farm paper and if he does read 
“boarder” did not apply to any particu¬ 
lar breed of cattle, but meant the cow 
of any breed that did not give suffi¬ 
cient milk to more than pay her own 
board. Up to that time I had never 
thought of such a cow as a boarder, but 
looking at it from the proper slant the 
term was not so far out of the way. I 
kept watching the idea as the different 
papers took it up, and I began to get 
interested in the method of finding out 
whether a cow was paying for her keep 
and giving a little profit or whether she 
was just boarding at your place, and 
all you had for your work was the 
pleasure of her company. And right 
here I want to pause long enough to re¬ 
mark that there is mighty little pleas¬ 
ure in the company of a non-producer, 
either man or beast. 
We had never had any adequate way 
of telling what our herd was doing. We 
always of course kept track of the num¬ 
ber of quarts of milk that the cows 
made, and then to tell what each cow 
was doing we would divide the number 
of quarts of milk by the number of 
cows. This of course gave the average 
production per cow in the herd, and had 
always satisfied us until all the farm 
papers began to make such a stir over J 
“boarders in the dairy.” All these vari¬ 
ous papers began advocating a plan of 
weighing the mess from each cow and 
by this means finding the actual pro¬ 
duction of each animal. It looked like 
a very easy plan, and we resolved to 
try it. Following directions we fixed 
up a tally sheet bearing the name of 
every cow,—Brindle, Old Spot, the 
Morse heifer and Switcher all had their j 
names enrolled and moved into the spot¬ 
light. A pair of scales and a pencil 
on a string completed the outfit. It 
seemed, to us like a very simple equip¬ 
ment for the amount of information it 
was supposed to give us. We then be¬ 
gan weighing the milk of every cow. 
Both the morning and night messes 
were weighed and set down below the 
cow’s name on the tally sheet. We did 
not attempt to weigh the milk every 
day; on the contrary we made it a prac¬ 
tice to weigh but twice a month. If, 
however, the total amount of our pro¬ 
duction in a day varied to any extent 
we would immediately make another 
test weight. At the end of the first 
year we had a fairly complete report 
of each cow’s production, and could 
easily compute whether a cow had given 
sufficient milk to pay for keeping her. 
In connection with the use of the scales 
we used the Babcock test, and were 
thereby enabled to tell what amount of 
butter fat each cow produced. These 
tests for butter fat became a part of 
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