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^THK KURAb NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock asid Dairy 
A NEW JERSEY CHAMPION. 
George W. Vanderbilt’s registered 
Jersey cow, Kola’s Katherine 206275, 
has just broken the world’s Jersey rec¬ 
ord for butter and milk production on 
a 120-days’ test. The test was made at 
Asheville, N. C., was started January 24 
and ended May 23, 1913, including the 
starting and stopping days. The test 
was conducted by Dr. A. S. Wheeler, a 
former professor of Tulane University, 
New Orleans. This beautiful animal, 
Kola’s Katherine, broke the world’s rec¬ 
ord for milk, for butter fat and estimated 
butter for this entire period, and in ad¬ 
dition broke ‘the world’s one-day record 
in all particulars. The former record 
was held by Loretta D. 141708, which 
was made at St. Louis in 1904. The 
record of the test of Kola’s Katherine 
is as follows: Total milk, 6,086 pounds; 
butter fat, as per Babcock test, 2S7.25 
pounds; estimated butter, 337.94 pounds; 
average milk per day, 50.71 pounds; 
average butter per day, 2.81 pounds. 
First month milk, 1,851 pounds; butter, 
95.23 pounds; second month milk, 1,591 
pounds; butter, 85.67 pounds; third 
month milk, 1,415.50 pounds; butter, 
83.00 pounds; fourth month milk, 
1,228.50 pounds; butter, 72.21 pounds; 
let us feed all our hay and grain upon 
this farm and market dairy products, 
which do not remove the fertility of the 
farm near as rapidly, and then there is 
a market for these almost everywhere. 
Let us buy some cows. But we are con¬ 
fronted with the fact that we have no 
money; all our surplus cash went to¬ 
wards the first payment on the farm. 
Well possibly we can buy one, or if not 
that, a heifer calf and get started. We 
increase our dairy herd by purchasing 
another cow or heifer calf as we are able, 
and by raising our own heifer calves, 
continuing along this line until after a 
few years we have 10 head, calves and 
all. A dry year comes, feed is scarce 
and of course goes higher in price. 
Shortage of crops forces us to sell some 
of our cattle and buy some feed for the 
rest, and then what do we find? Why, 
our cows will not pay the feed bill. We 
have been buying and growing cattle 
without regard to their ability to pro¬ 
duce profitably. They have consumed 
our farm crops and aided some in re¬ 
building the soil, but we must have only 
those cows which will return a profit 
while doing this. We must sell some 
more and so we begin to weed them out, 
for we have our eyes opened. We must 
weigh and test our milk and know our 
cows. How foolish that we did not 
know this at first! What time and ex¬ 
pense we might have saved! After 
best day’s milk, 66.50 pounds, which 
tested 3.56 pounds of butter. 
This new record beats that of Loretta 
D. for the same period by 284 pounds of 
milk; by 7.09 pounds of butter fat, and 
by 79.1 pounds of butter. Kola’s Kath¬ 
erine also beats the one-day record of 
Loretta D. by 8.15 pounds of milk and 
by .81 pounds of butter. - N. B. 
THE DAIRY COW FOR THE RUNDOWN 
FARM. 
The purchaser of a rundown farm is 
possibly guided towards his purchase by 
the fact that he has but little money, and 
the lower purchase price looks attractive 
to him, or perhaps the location is an in¬ 
centive, it is near the neighborhood where 
he spent his childhood days, and he is 
reluctant to leave his friends and ac¬ 
quaintances. Tie, too, may be ignorant 
of the true condition of the soil and fail 
to realize the meaning of a poor farm; 
especially when he will afterwards be 
compelled to pay a mortgage for two- 
thirds of the cost of the farm, increase 
the fertility of the soil, remodel the build¬ 
ings and fences and build new ones where 
needed, and if he has unfortunately start¬ 
ed without the proper equipment of farm 
implements and live stock he must secure 
these. All this must be dug from the 
soil of the rundown farm while providing 
a living for his family. Human nature 
is naturally optimistic, and perhaps it is 
better to look upon the bright side, but 
when a man faces a proposition like this 
he must do some thinking. With a fertile 
soil it would be much easier. 
Having purchased a rundown farm 
what course should we pursue, what 
should be our money crops? Should we 
continue the practice of hay and grain 
farming which is largely responsible for 
the already depleted condition of the 
farm, or would we better decide upon 
some form of live stock farming and 
seek to rebuild the farm, and fdr this 
what is better than the dairy cow? Yes, 
weighing and testing our milk we find 
ourselves selling all but two or three 
cows. We begin to think of the feeding 
problem, and study and learn the value 
of the balanced ration, and feed these 
few cows better and they show improve¬ 
ment, but where are we going to get 
more really good cows? Will our heifer 
calves from these cows be as good or 
better than their mothers? We begin to 
see the value of the well-bred sire. With 
most farmers a bull is a bull, just as with 
our cows when we started, and if there 
are no sires of known breeding near us 
we would better buy one. He will be a 
purebred whose ancestors have been bred 
for production for several generations. 
His pedigree will show us what they 
have done, and “blood will tell.” Our 
heifer calves should now grow to be 
good cows. We become more interested 
in purebred stock, and look forward to 
the day when we caii have all of our 
herd purebred. Accordingly we purchase 
a purebred heifer or heifer calf as our 
means will permit for the foundation of 
our purebred herd. 
As the calves of our first sire begin to 
make their appearance we purchase a 
bull calf of better breeding than the first 
if possible, for use on our young heifers, 
and in this manner can continue to raise 
better cows. With our first year’s rec¬ 
ord of weighing and testing the milk, we 
agree to keep no cows who produce less 
than 250 pounds per year. Gradually 
this is increased each year by growing 
better cows, and by better care and feed¬ 
ing of those we have, until we find our 
profits from the dairy increasing. Mean¬ 
while the fertility of the soil is also in¬ 
creasing, enabling us to grow more feed, 
which in turn means more cows and more 
profit, thus forming a seemingly endless 
chain which means a vast improvement 
for the rundown farm and its owner. 
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