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Live Stock and Dairy 
“Some Cow” in Black and White. 
After having bred them for about 20 
years, I decided last Spring to let the 
Jerseys go. I still firmly believe that 
they will produce mo»e butter, and of a 
higher quality, than any other breed, in 
proportion to the value of food consumed. 
But this is a market-milk section, and 
the cow that produces the greatest 
amount of market milk at the least cost, 
is the popular animal, and the animal 
that the buyers come expecting to find. 
Of course this cow is the Holstein—the 
old-fashioned Holstein that gives an 
enormous flow of milk testing around 
three per cent butter fat. Why should 
she produce any richer milk? The legis¬ 
lature says that three per cent is rich 
enough, and three per cent is all that 
the dealer pays for. Then why should 
our good Dutch cow waste her time and 
her owner’s high-priced grain in putting 
a lot of fat into milk for which he gets 
no pay? 
After the Jerseys were gone, I stocked 
up the pasture with grade Holsteins; 
that is, the rough part of the pasture 
that could not be plowed. But I was 
not satisfied with just grades, so I be¬ 
gan looking around for a registered Hol¬ 
stein cow for the foundation of a herd. 
A purebred cow is no better than any 
old cow unless she is better. I shall be 
glad when the time comes when purebred 
cows will be plenty enough so that all 
of them shall be stricken from the regis¬ 
ter books that cannot qualify for the 
“A. It. O.” degree by the time they are 
five years old. I finally found a heifer 
that satisfied me pretty well at $250. 
She was thin in flesh, and she was large¬ 
ly black (I wonder why most of the 
good ones are black?). She had an offi¬ 
cial record of 440.1 pounds of milk and 
14.06 of fat in seven days, made at two 
years and a month old. Sixty-five 
pounds of milk a day is pretty good for 
a two-year-old, especially when one con¬ 
siders that she kept up her flow to such 
an extent that she was not dried off at 
Jill, and was still milking when she 
dropped her second calf. 
She had just been bred for her third 
calf when I bought her, and was milk¬ 
ing 30 pounds a day when I forced her 
dry, and began to fit her for her next 
lactation period. She dropped a fine 
heifer calf on February 4, before she 
was four years old, and I loaded her on 
the sleigh and took her to a neighbor 
who was putting some through an offi¬ 
cial test. February 10 he started her on 
test, and in seven days she gave 515.8 
pounds of milk, which tested 17.01 
pounds of fat, or 3.414 per cent. She 
gave 77.5 pounds of milk the best day of 
the test, and 77 pounds the second day 
after I brought her home. She is regis¬ 
tered as “Lady Nanuet Pieterlje” No. 
151855 and weighs 1000 pounds. 
Madison Co., N. Y. j. grant morse. 
T M fcC RURA.lv NKW-VI > K I< )£K 
Are Silos Going Out ? 
I am thinking of building a concrete 
silo, as I have a good bed of sand and 
gravel suitable for concrete work. One 
of my neighbors, however, says that 
silage is going out of use; that the 
farmers in New York State are giving 
up their silos, as the milk condenseries 
and the butter factories, as he claims, 
will not accept milk from cows that are 
fed on silage. Please tell me what there 
is to this. j. b. 
The reports which reached you regard¬ 
ing the use of silage are exaggerated. It 
is true that Bordens have refused to ac¬ 
cept milk made from feeding the average 
grade of silage. Our understanding is 
that they would be willing to accept 
silage made from inspected or approved 
silos. Most of the other condenseries 
seem willing to use milk made from 
silage, and there can be no question 
about the great economy in this kind of 
feed. It is the cheapest and best dairy 
food for Winter feeding now known, and 
instead of falling off, its use is certainly 
increasing through the dairy districts. 
Of course, you will understand that there 
is both good and poor silage. The quality 
depends upon the character of the corn, 
whether full, rich, immature or frosted, 
and also upon the way it is put into the 
silo, and the character of the silo itself, 
but as a general proposition, the use of 
silage as a dairy food is growing rather 
than falling off. 
There are arguments for all kinds of 
silos of wood, concrete, brick, hollow tile 
or concrete blocks. The arguments which 
come to us for these various kinds are 
not unlike the arguments put up for 
different breeds of stock. One farmer 
will insist that his silo is better than 
any other, while within a few miles a 
man with a silo of very different type 
will argue very strongly for another kind. 
In northern Ohio, for example, the re¬ 
ports are that the old-fashioned square 
wooden silo is preferred. We hear from 
other dairy districts where farmers put 
up concrete silos entirely, and it is evi¬ 
dent that all the other forms are in use 
and are being erected every year. The 
majority of dairymen who have used 
silage for a term of years would say that 
they would go out of business rather 
than attempt to make milk without a 
fair amount of silage. 
Raising Veal Calves, 
The Farm Management Monthly of the 
Agricultural Department gives a report 
from M. O. Cooper which will interest 
dairymen. This question of calf raising 
is a big one just now, with the high cost 
of meat. Some dairymen say that a 
good-sized calf will pay more for their 
milk than the dealers offer, but this ex¬ 
periment does not show great profit from 
small Jersey calves: 
Some men hold that it pays to raise 
the male calves for veal, while others kill 
them at birth. There are here presented 
the actual figures on the cost of raising 
four Jersey calves on a dairy farm in 
Wisconsin, and although the number is 
small the figures are suggestive. 
COST PER HEAD FOR FOUR VEAI, CALVES. 
Whole milk... 804 lbs. 
Skim-milk ....2701 lbs. 
Grain . 224 lbs. 
Hay . 120 lbs. 
Kggs . 22 
Labor . 46 hrs. 
Per IId. 
201 lbs. 
008 lbs. 
50 lbs. 
30 lbs. 
11.5 hrs. 
Cost 
$3.40 
1.00 
.80 
.15 
.07 
1.84 
Total .$7.98 
The four calves when sold were 12 to 
10 weeks old, which is a little older than 
skim-milk veal is commonly marketed. 
During this period the quantity of feed 
consumed and hours of labor required 
and their value are presented in the 
above table. The prices used in comput¬ 
ing feed and labor value were: whole 
milk, $1.70 per cwt.; skim-milk, 25 cents 
per cwt.; grain, $1.50 per cwt.; and man 
labor, 10 cents per hour. 
By examining the figures it is seen 
that almost half the total cost is made up 
of new milk, although a comparatively 
small quantity of this feed was used. On 
this same farm the previous year the 
young calves that were being raised re¬ 
ceived 342 pounds or new milk. Had 
these calves received a like quantity the 
cost per head would have been increased 
$2.40, making the total $10.38. The 
major part of the feed used was skim- 
milk, but as this is a comparatively 
cheap feed its cost is not high. The 
other important item making up the total 
cost was labor, which amounted to $1.84. 
The total of $7.98 as shown by the table 
does not include some items which must 
be included in making up the complete 
cost of raising the veat. These items are 
building charges, equipment charges, in¬ 
terest, and general overhead expense. 
However, the total of these would 
amount to only a few cents, and for all 
practical purposes can be omitted with¬ 
out affecting the final results. The four 
calves were sold on the market for $42, 
which is an average of $10.50 per head. 
This is a profit of $2.52 over the cost 
of feed and labor. As these calves were 
the Jersey breed, they were not especial¬ 
ly adapted to making into veal. The 
breed is small and the calves at birth 
weigh much less than the calves of the 
Holstein breed. At the same time, their 
feed cost is comparatively lower. It is 
probable that the profit from Holstein 
veal would be larger. 
The second annual meeting of the New 
York State Breeders’ Club was held at 
the Powers Hotel, Rochester, N. Y., 
February 5, in connection with the an¬ 
nual convention of the New York State 
Breeders’ Association. The purposes and 
objects of the club are to promote and 
stimulate purebred draft horse breeding 
with (In; assistance anrr promise of such 
State laws for the protection of owners 
and purebred draft stallions by method 
of inspection and license to govern ser¬ 
vice. The following were elected officers 
for the ensuing year: President, E. S. 
Akin, Glens Falls; secretary, E. E. Hor¬ 
ton, Binghamton. A large increased 
membership was enrolled showing re¬ 
newed strength and prosperity and with 
the promised State assistance a better 
condition of draft horse breeding for the 
State of New York may be assured. 
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