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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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SELLING SCRUBS TO NEIGHBORS. 
Hard Bought Experience. 
“If you have a scrub cow don't sell 
her to your neighbor.” says Bert Smith, 
a prominent Ohio dairyman. “Send her 
to the block. If a man goes out to buy 
a horse, if he deals with a horse jockey, 
he knows what he will be up against, and 
will expect to he stung. When a man 
goes to buy a cow. even his best friend 
may sting him the worst* I believe I 
have had as many worthless cows sad¬ 
dled on me by honest and well-meaning 
men, as any man in the dairy business. 
I have fallen down, faced discouragement 
and financial loss 10 times to the average 
farmer’s once, hut I got up and went 
ahead. If I could not face a business 
proposition on the farm, I would back 
up to it, and try to get at it that way. 
“I started nine years ago on my farm 
in Delaware county, Ohio. It was so 
poor it would not grow pennyroyal, only 
in the fence corners. Mullein would 
grow but a foot high, become discouraged 
and die. I thought I would go in the 
dairy business, and I would build up the 
soil in two or three years, and become 
rich in a short time. Well. I started 
buying cows. I secured 11 from around 
the country. Some were red, some black 
and some brindlcs. Anything and every¬ 
thing that was a cow, I bought. I cared 
for these cows, milked them, kept accur¬ 
ate figures on my expenses and at the end 
of a month, I balanced up. I’ll tell you 
it was a mighty hard blow when I saw 
that I only had lt> cents to my credit. I 
didn’t offer these cows to my neighbors, 
but I called up the butcher that night, 
told him to come to the farm and look 
over my herd for there would be some¬ 
thing doing. 
“The butcher came out early the next 
morning. I took him through the stable; 
he placed a price on this cow, and that 
one, until he had established figures on 
the entire herd* I hung my head; it 
would make any man hang his head, when 
he has hoped for easy dollars and cents. 
I asked him how much the entire herd 
would bring, and lie figured again on the 
cows, and made me a price for the en¬ 
tire bunch. 
“ ‘They’re yours.’ I told him. I then 
visited an old friend who had taken a 
heavily mortgaged farm, and paid for it 
with Jerseys. I talked with him nearly a 
full day. I came away filled with en¬ 
thusiasm believing the Jersey, regardless 
of ancestry or efficiency, would put profit 
in my purse. Every one in our whole 
county who had an old scrub Jersey for 
sale, wrote or ’phoned me. and I was 
chasing everywhere for Jerseys. They 
said I was Jersey mad. Here is where 
I failed again. I bought regardless of 
certain characteristics which are so 
strong they will give the wise buyer a 
stunning blow. I just bought Jerseys; 
I didn’t know anything about distance 
between the eyes to denote intelligence, 
large capacity in the barrel to denote 
magnificent storage capacity for food, a 
capacious pelvic region or commodious 
arch for the udder. I paid little atten¬ 
tion to the wandering milk vein, and the 
deep milk well. 1 knew nothing of the 
characteristic wedge-shape appearance of 
the cow. I bought Jerseys, and looked 
for big udders. 1 was lucky once; one 
farmer told me lie had a Jersey he would 
sell me, and I hurried to his farm before 
daylight. I was mighty afraid that some¬ 
one would get there and buy first* The 
cow was eating around a straw stack. I 
saw a nice heifer in another part of the 
barnyard. I asked to buy that heifer. 
The farmer refused hut pointed to the 
old cow. I asked him to answer honestly 
two questions; one whether the dairy 
business paid him, and the other whether 
he intended to remain in it? lie swore 
he would answer me truthfully, and de¬ 
clared there was no more paying business, 
and that he intended to remain in it. 
Then I said, ‘You need her in your busi¬ 
ness and by all m°ans keep her.’ I 
visited another farm. One cow with a 
magnificent udder attracted my atten- 
The owner said the cow was his wife’s 
private property and he could hardly 
think of selling her. I got anxious and 
finally he said if we could slip the cow 
from the barn down through the lot with¬ 
out his wife seeing her, he would consid¬ 
er a price* This was made, and it was a 
good one. When I got the cow home, I 
called my family to the barn. The udder 
was wonderful in proportion, and I ex¬ 
pected I would have to milk her in a 
wash tub. I milked about two quarts 
and the udder was as large as before. I 
found that there were characteristics as¬ 
sociated with dairy production, and only 
after years, the cost of dollars and cents, 
hard work, and no profit. I learned the 
lesson of selecting a dairy cow. 
I have bought cows for $50 when cows 
are lower than they are now. and turned 
around and sold them for $10* It cost 
me what the young man cannot afford 
to spend, and that is valuable years of my 
life. 
“After learning characteristics of a 
good dairy cow, I applied the scales and 
Babcock test to my herd. If you have a 
$200 cow, she is worth keeping, but if 
you have a $00 cow. she is not worth $25. 
and I wouldn’t have her on the farm. I 
had something to learn about difference in 
butter fat in cows. I thought that but¬ 
ter fat could be fed into a cow in the 
form of grain and commercial feeds. It 
cost me dollars and cents to learn this 
lesson. Our local creamery man tested 
by the gravity method, and invariably 
our herd stood at 4%. I thought he knew 
his business, because the test remained 
constant month after month. When a 
new man came, used the Babcock test 
and I found my test running above and 
below, I thought he gave me a good test 
to offset the low test of the preceding 
month. I finally took a sample of my 
milk down to the Ohio State University 
for test. I handed the sample to the 
laboratory assistant. He told me he could 
not test that for I had churned it by car¬ 
rying it. lie told me to take another 
sample, which I did. I took that down, 
and it tested between eight and 10 
That astonished me. The assistant 
asked me if I secured a good composite 
sample. I told him I secured it from the 
middle. I milked the cow half out, then 
milked the sample from that before com¬ 
pleting the milking. He then told me 
how to secure a proper sample by pour¬ 
ing from one pail to the next, and how 
that the test varied from a fraction of 
one per cent in early milking to 12% 
in the strippings. 
"I found the only way to put profit 
in dairying was to use the tester and 
scales. I had a good many hard lessons 
to learn, I was discouraged, but I got 
up and went ahead. I spent consider¬ 
able money, a large amount of time, and 
I have many things yet to acquire. The 
young man cannot afford to learn them 
in the way that I did, he has his farm 
paper, has the benefit of the experiment 
station, the agricultural college, and the 
experience of the older men who have 
made the grade, all as a foundation on 
which to establish his farm practice.” 
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C. Brown Leghorns and their combs were 
high like the hens I have now? Could I 
put them tin the market as purebreds for 
utility breeding purposes, or would the 
flock not be purebred on account of beiug 
made up of different strain? Is sawdust 
all right to pack eggs in for hatching 
purposes, to ship by express? Would 
the sawdust have to be from dry wood or 
would it do from green wood if the saw¬ 
dust was dried? If not is there anything 
on the market I could buy? As I have 
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