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THE RURAIi NEW-YORKER 
September 6, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
,/ PUREBRED STOCK PARTNERSHIP. 
On page 862 is the statement of a 
proposed arrangement under which a man 
with some money but no farm proposes 
to buy purebred stock to put on a farm 
where the owner has little capital. In 
this proposition it is not stated whether 
the stock now upon the farm will con¬ 
tinue to be kept after the registered cat¬ 
tle are placed upon it or not. Neither 
is it clear as to whether the registered 
stock will all be very young animals, or 
made up of calves in part, and of cows 
in milk, and a bull ready for service. As¬ 
suming that the purpose is to retain the 
best cows and heifers now on the place 
and to improve the herd through the 
blood of the registered bull, for the bene¬ 
fit of the owner of the farm, while the 
farmer feeds and cares for the registered 
cattle for the benefit of the party who 
places them there, and that the regis¬ 
tered stock will consist of the usual pro¬ 
portion of young stock, and working 
cows, and the bull, I would advise that 
the farmer decrease his present herd by 
about one-half, and that he permit an 
equal number (or more if he can care for 
them) of registered animals to be placed 
on the farm. The farmer should have 
free use of the registered bull for his own 
cows, but each party should be his own 
dictator as to breeding his own part of 
the herd. The farmer should have all 
the dairy products, including of course 
the manure, and one-third, or at least 
one-quarter of the increase of heifers, 
A MONTANA GIRL’S SITOTES. 
and bull calves from the original regis¬ 
tered stock. The food for all the cattle 
on the place should consist of such as 
the farm produces, together with what 
it is found necessary to purchase. 
To avoid any clash which might arise 
in reference to feeding, it would be well 
to arrange with some expert compounder 
of balanced rations, who would be mu¬ 
tually satisfactory, whose advice should, 
as closely as possible, be followed in 
feeding. 
As soon as possible, the farmer should 
eliminate from his herd all of his stock 
not eligible to registration, and replace 
them from his share of the increase from 
the registered animals. It should also 
be agreed between the contracting par¬ 
ties as to the limit in number of male 
and female cattle of different ages which 
may be carried on the place, and how 
many calves shall be raised by each 
party. Each party should assume his 
own risk as to health and welfare of his 
cattle, but as to the general care of the 
stock the farmer should reign supreme 
dictator. 
If, on the other hand, it is designed 
for the farmer to dispense with all of 
his present cattle, and for the capitalist 
to replace them with a number, to be 
agreed upon, or registered cattle, then 
I would consider that the plan outlined 
above would still be equable, but under 
either arrangement the party who places 
the registered stock on the farm should 
be the dictator as to any new acquisition 
in a bull to head the herd, and receive 
all benefit of revenue derived for bull 
service for cows belonging to outside 
parties; also for the sale of the progeny 
from all stock included in his share of 
the herd. While the only revenue that 
the farmer should derive from the sale 
of stock under this second plan should 
accrue from his share of the progeny 
from the original registered stock, which, 
under the arrangement, might have fallen 
to him. Should the parties continue op¬ 
erating together until the farmer has ac¬ 
quired an equal number of registered cat¬ 
tle to balance those belonging to his part¬ 
ner, then it would -probably be wise to 
revise their agreement and start anew. 
Connecticut. Arthur l. benedict. 
OLD TIME FEEDING IDEAS. 
My cows brought me $100 per head; 
veal calves counted $10 each; some 
brought more, none less. In regard to 
feed, I have a silo, use hay or cut corn 
stover first thing in the morning. If 
stover, use ’molasses thinned so I can use 
it in a sprinkling can, a good heaping 
bushel to two cows; then one bushel 
silage per cow, after all cleaned up grain. 
At noon corn fodder and more molasses. 
I never use fodder without cutting or 
shredding. About four o’clock more hay 
or stover is given, then one bushel silage. 
My cows are in stalls (Scott plan), two 
cows in each stall; usually feed one 
bushel to each two, then feed again after 
a while one bushel more; the last thing 
at night grain. I have perhaps a foolish 
notion that if a cow gets her grain last 
it w-ill do her more good. Water is in 
front of them all the time. This is for 
Winter; never turn them out, only for 
exercise on good days; have been in a 
week or more at a time. Grain used 
is cotton-seed meal, dried distillers’ grain, 
chop, bran, middlings and anything I 
can get when I cannot get what I want. 
In regard to mixing I am like my 
daughter making a cake; she puts in a 
little of this and that, and if she does 
not have what she wants, something else 
will do, bakes, and it is almost always 
good. Her mother measures and I some¬ 
times think the daughter comes out ahead. 
I mix Avhat I have about as I think the 
cows need according to the analysis; 
then I feed what I think each individual 
cow needs; about four or five quarts for 
a 25 or 30 pound cow and more if they 
give more. I think it is a good bit in 
care. A cow on pasture will eat about 
what she wants, then rest, eat a little 
more, etc. I don’t believe you can feed 
a cow her breakfast all at once, leave 
her till noon then throw in some more; 
then at night throw in her supper, grab 
the pails and milk, then not see them 
until six or seven o’clock in the morning. 
I am hardly ever through until 8.30 or 
9 P. M., out about 5 A. M. I never use 
a dog; they are always ready to come 
in the barn when the door is open. 
One of my brothers said he would not 
keep cows and fuss with them as I did ; 
he is a doctor. In the Summer. I have 
very little pasture. Silage generally 
lasts until Alsike clover is ready; then 
Billion Dollar grass or Japanese millet; 
sow two or three different times, oats, 
sweet corn, etc. w. i. h. 
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