1914. 
THE RURAklb NEW-YORKER 
67 
LIVE STOCK NOTES. 
Why I Keep Holsteins. 
We bred one of the smaller breeds of 
dairy cattle for a number of years, and 
our losses were, we thought, too heavy. 
The calves at birth were delicate and 
often subject to disease, and the local 
market for surplus bulls was practically 
nothing. We first started with the grade 
Holsteins, and their milk and butter pro¬ 
duction was much more than others had 
been, besides they had larger and stronger 
calves, and surplus cattle were always in 
demand at satisfactory prices. After a 
few years with the grades we put on 
some purebreds and have been more than 
pleased; with over 75 purebred calves 
dropped, we have not yet lost a single one. 
The cattle are very strong, good feeders 
and we found less unprofitable animals 
than we found with other breeds. The 
Holstein bull calves are ready sale at 
from $50 to $100 each when from one to 
six months of age. This of course only 
applies to calves from untested or small 
record cows. If good bulls are used, and 
it certainly does not pay to use any other 
kind on purebred cows, the bulls from 
large record cows are always in demand 
at good prices. They are of course very 
quiet, pleasant cattle to handle, and when 
they have served their usefulness at the 
pail they will bring something for beef, 
we having sold some recently weighing 
from 1,500 to 1,700 pounds. I have yet 
to find the man in this section who ever 
started with Holsteins now keeping one 
of the smaller breeds, and if properly 
grown (the first year of their 
life) they will make money for their 
owner. At the prices good young clean 
straight Holsteins are bringing at public 
auctions by the thousand and have for 
the past eight or 10 years, there is no 
question that there is money in breeding 
them. A. G. DANKS. 
Warren Co., N. J. 
Storing Butter. 
Can I store butter away for future 
use? Just now I am getting more than 
I need, so would like to store some away. 
Sandy Hook, Conn. J. s. 
I think the only method of keeping 
butter satisfactorily through hot weather 
is to put it into some kind of cold storage 
where the temperature is not far from 
freezing point. When this cannot be 
done, perhaps the next best method is to 
pack it in stone crocks, after salting it 
as heavily as your taste will allow, cover 
the surface with a cloth, over which is 
sprinkled a good layer of salt, and store 
in the coolest part of the cellar. I have 
often eaten butter stored for several 
months in this way, but to my taste it 
could hardly be called the “golden head 
of the staff of life.” c. L. M. 
Co-operative Live Stock Improvement. 
A bulletin from the United States De¬ 
partment of Agriculture says: “The Port¬ 
age County (Ohio) Improvement Asso¬ 
ciation, which was organized less than a 
year ago, now has more than 3.0(K) mem¬ 
bers. The County Agricultural Advisor, 
was recently designated to select a num¬ 
ber of purebred animals for breeding pur¬ 
poses. The dairy interests predominate; 
and the agent was guided by the needs of 
respective communities he was serving. 
In all 33 registered bulls were purchased. 
22 being Holsteins, seven Guernseys and 
four Jerseys. He also selected four pure¬ 
bred Percheron stallions and one Belgian. 
The farmers were assisted in organizing 
a semi-annual stock sales day. The first 
sale, which has just been held, was thor¬ 
oughly advertised, and was in the hands 
of competent auctioneers. The offerings 
were quite large and exchanged hands to 
a considerable extent among the farm¬ 
ers of the county. Through these two 
agencies every part of the county is with¬ 
in easy access of a high-class sire for 
herd improvement, and is also afforded a 
convenient and economical method for 
disposing of surplus stock; two factors 
of fundamental importance in live stock 
development. 
Purebred Swine for Poor Men. 
I have read an article on page 1309 
with great interest. I am just a be¬ 
ginner in raising and breeding swine. 
One year ago I started to study the 
breeds. I have taken a fancy to the 
Poland China; I feel satisfied that they 
are the poor man’s pig, as they are easy 
feeders, mature in due time, and are 
fairly good breeders; farrow with little 
or no trouble, and are noted as good 
mothers. I have a registered boar, and 
the dam is registered. My neighbor had 
a litter of pigs from a scrub sow bred 
to my registered boar, for which I 
claimed a pig at the age of six weeks. 
He received $6 per pair at six weeks old. 
I had a litter of purebred stock which 
I sold for $10 at the same age; therefore 
I gained $4 per pair over the price of 
common stock, which shows the difference 
in scrub and purebred stock. Without 
wishing to differ with Mr. Black on the 
question of the Chester White, as they 
no doubt equal to or surpass the Po¬ 
land China, as to the production of pork 
the Poland China looks good to me. The 
pigs also produce a fair quantity of lard, 
but are more of a bacon type, but can 
be made to fatten at quick notice. I am 
only young in the business and like many 
others have much to learn. G. E. S. 
Mauch Chunk, Pa. 
Preventing Butter From Sticking. 
—Replying to a late inquiry how to pre¬ 
vent a butter print from sticking, keep 
the print in cold brine all the time when 
not in use. F. o. 
Castleton, N. T. 
Computing Profits. —I notice that 
many farmers use the word “profit’’ 
rather loosely, since they place every¬ 
thing except money expended for feed un¬ 
der that heading, their own time and use 
of their buildings being apparently worth 
nothing. As .‘in example I would cite 
the reports of the productiveness of cer¬ 
tain sows which were given. To such 
I would like to recommend the report of 
Mr. Sidmore, “The Cost of an Oat Crop,” 
page 1318, as a model by which to go. 
w. J. M. 
Guernsey Cattle Notes. —At the re¬ 
cent meeting of the American Guernsey 
Cattle Club in Chicago, a report of the 
Club’s work for the first five months of 
the fiscal year show a great gain in the 
growth of Guernsey interests. More 
hulls and cows and a large number more 
transfers have been received than during 
a similar period last year. The work of 
942 cows is being followed in the Ad¬ 
vanced Register. These represent 155 
breeders; 2.636 cows average 8.465.40 
pounds milk and 423.53 butterfat, with 
an average per cent of 5.003. A sum¬ 
mary of the cattle under test showed a 
large majority of the breeders (122 as 
compared with 26) were using the two- 
day test period with their animals. 
Silage For Beef. —The high price of 
beef is starting farmers into two lines 
of thought. One is hunting for grain 
mixture which will partly take the place 
of milk in calf feeding—the other exper¬ 
imenting with silage for beef feeding. 
The following is printed by the Wiscon¬ 
sin Agricultural College: “As men make 
new discoveries to meet new economic 
conditions, so, when all kinds of food 
stuffs advanced in price, did the stockmen 
begin to look around for a feed that 
would lower the cost of feeding cattle for 
the market. They found the solution of 
this problem in silage, for after a series 
of tests made by experiment stations and 
by the stockmen themselves, it was found 
that when silage was mixed with a ra¬ 
tion it considerably lowered the cost 
of gains. Just as silage for a long time 
has been considered necessary for profit¬ 
able dairying, so it is now beginning to 
be considered as a necessity for the eco¬ 
nomic production of beef both on the 
farms of the Middle West and on the 
ranches of the West and Southwest.” 
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