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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
June 27, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
DAIRY CATTLE IN KANSAS. 
[Newspaper reports liave mentioned a 
development of the dairy business in Kan¬ 
sas—cooperative buying and breeding of 
improved stock. The following statement 
by Prof. A. T. Neale tells about it.] 
I DO not know that we are doing any¬ 
thing new or startling here in Kan¬ 
sas, along the lines you mention. Kan¬ 
sas, as you know, has not been a dairy 
State. The industry is developing very 
rapidly, however, at the present time, and 
we are endeavoring to assist in a rational 
development. We are endeavoring to 
create community breeding centers in 
which only one breed of dairy cattle is 
kept. We have several of these started 
now, that will he heard from later on. At 
Mulvane we have the largest Holstein 
breeding community west of the Missouri 
River. The farmers there started breed¬ 
ing Holsteins about four years ago. A 
year ago they organized a Holstein Breed¬ 
ers’ Association known as the Southwest 
Holstein Breeders’ Association. This or¬ 
ganization has a large number of mem¬ 
bers who are breeding purebred cattle. 
Several very high-class bulls have been 
introduced into the community. 
There are two pronounced Jersey cen¬ 
ters established, a few Guernsey centers, 
and in addition to Mulvane, several 
other places are starting the breeding of 
Holsteins. We have given assistance to 
a large number of farmers in the pur¬ 
chasing of purebred and grade dairy cat¬ 
tle. I have just returned from a trip to 
Wisconsin with a number of farmers in 
which 100 head of Guernseys and Hol¬ 
steins were purchased for various parts of 
the State. 
In purchasing stock we have insisted on 
buying a few high-class cattle rather than 
a large number of inferior grades. These 
have proven to be profitable in practically 
every case, and have served as an impetus 
to the business. I am hardly able to say 
just how many cattle we have assisted in 
buying altogether. As an example of the 
class of cattle which we have bought, I 
might say that our last shipment from 
Wisconsin includes a Holstein hull whose 
dam and sire’s dam average 21,000 
pounds of milk and 075 pounds butter 
each per year, semi-official record. This 
hull was purchased at a long price, but 
goes into a community where the Hol¬ 
stein industry is just starting. Along 
with him are going several very high- 
class cows, some of them with seven-day 
official records of almost 25 pounds of 
butter, and as high as 580 pounds of 
milk. Quite a number of young cows 
and heifers of excellent breeding that will 
he able to make good records were also 
secured. 
Among the Guernseys of our last ship¬ 
ment are three daughters of Rhea’s King 
of the May, the sire of the prize-winning 
young herd at all the big shows of 1912 
and 1913. Ilis daughters are not only of 
excellent type but several of them have 
made around 400 pounds of fat as two- 
year-olds with the first calf. One of the 
things that we are very particular about 
is that all the high-class cattle brought 
into the State are placed in good hands. 
We do not care to buy cattle for a man 
who is a poor feeder, and will not sell 
to a man of that sort if we know it. By 
placing cattle in the hands of good men, 
their work speaks for itself and is a re¬ 
commendation of the improved breeds. 
CROP-GROWING CLUB FOR YOUNG 
PEOPLE. 
O NE of the most helpful and interest¬ 
ing pieces of work a community 
may do for its young people is to organ¬ 
ize a corn, potato or canning club. 
Anyone who has been associated with 
a hoys’ or girls’ agricultural club or con¬ 
test for one season, and has seen the 
awakened interest among these young 
people knows that it is worth while. The 
hoys and girls who join one of these con¬ 
tests and pledge themselves to plant, care 
for and harvest, by their own labor, a 
crop of corn or potatoes or garden truck, 
and at the same time keep a cost account 
with their crop, are better boys and girls 
at the end of the season. They have 
learned what it means to work and pro¬ 
duce results on their own responsibility. 
They have seen and studied their crop 
as it grew. A new world is opened to 
them so that when they look upon a crop 
of growing corn or potatoes they see 
something besides a green mass of foliage. 
It is not difficult to start a corn or 
potato club, or contest. Rules are made 
out, printed and published in the local 
press. Registration in the club is in¬ 
vited. The funds can be easily raised. 
The Granges, boards of trade, and even 
interested individuals are always willing 
to contribute. For prizes commodities 
are as useful as cash. Such prizes as 
purebred calves, harnesses, tools, etc., are 
to be preferred to cash as a rule. 
The most lasting value of this class of 
work is the awakening and encourage¬ 
ment that comes to boys and girls who 
by their own labors have accomplished a 
particular piece of work. In one corn 
contest last year a boy 14 years of age 
grew GS bushels of shelled flint corn on 
an acre. He won a purebred bull calf 
as a prize. On being advised of the fact 
his father remarked: “I know of no one 
thing that has happened in my recent life 
that pleased me more than this.” The 
Ayrshire ladies would hardly be worth 
living on. 
N EARLY 450 cows, owned by 77 
breeders living in 28 different coun¬ 
ties of Wisconsin, are being tested 
to determine their milk and butterfat 
producing capabilities. According to of¬ 
ficial figures from the department of 
dairy tests at the College of Agriculture, 
University of Wisconsin, this is the larg¬ 
est number of cows ever under test at one 
time in this State. Each of the five dairy 
breeds popular with Wisconsin farmers 
are represented in the tests, 4G of the 
herds being Guernsey, 18 Holstein, eight 
Jersey, one Ayrshire, and one Brown 
Swiss. 
Z EBU CATTLE IN BRAZIL.—Mr. 
P. II. Dorsett of the Department of 
Agriculture, writing to the Bureau 
of Plant Industry from Piropora, Brazil, 
February 8, is thus quoted in Bulletin 
93: 
"The Zebu cattle are good-looking ani¬ 
mals, and have a good many points to 
recommend them for this country and this 
people. They are not. however, as I see 
it, strictly beef or milk cattle. But as 
general purpose animals in this country 
and under the conditions existing they 
WINNER OF A CORN CONTEST AND IIIS TRIZE. 
picture shows the calf and his owner, 
Jason Evans, of Jefferson County, N. Y. 
F. E. E. 
OHIO HOLSTEIN MEETING. 
T HE regular meeting of the West¬ 
ern Reserve Holstein Breeders’ 
Association was held May 28, at 
Cleveland’s City Farm at Warrensville; 
about 200 were present. A. A. Harts¬ 
horn of New York, A. J. Glover, Prof. 
Oscar Erf and Dr. Colley made addresses. 
A basket lunch was enjoyed by those 
present. After an enthusiastic talk by 
the breeders, the meeting was called to 
order. It was decided to recommend G. 
A. Dimoc as the Association’s representa¬ 
tive at the National Board. Proxies were 
signed and given to those present who 
would attend the June meeting of the 
IIolstein-Friesian meeting of America, in 
session June 1 and 2 at Chicago. 
The Warrensville farm belongs to the 
City of Cleveland and comprises about 
2,000 acres. Here is the tuberculosis 
tent colony, old people’s home where they 
may live out their lives as nearly as pos¬ 
sible among the conditions of home, the 
workhouse where the most unique treat¬ 
ment of prisoners is carried out, minis¬ 
tering rather to a diseased mind that 
needs care in setting up the right train 
of thinking, and the colony house. Pure¬ 
bred Holsteins of world-wide fame furn¬ 
ish milk for this great family and their 
beautiful surroundings are well worth 
going miles to see. 
For some time Ohio has held the 
champion cow, but has not the honor at 
present. An effort will be made by the 
breeders to bring this about the coming 
year. In the meantime many are get¬ 
ting started with small herds, and still 
every available cow or heifer is picked up 
at the owner’s price and at the stable, so 
well-known have the Holsteins of this 
section become. An association of this 
kind is a great benefit to those engaged 
in Holstein raising. 
MBS. JAMES LAMPMAN. 
appear to have many points to recom¬ 
mend them. The two Mr. Lomao’s at 
Pratinha speak in the highest terms of 
these cattle. Mr. Pedro Lamao has a 
cow, ‘Palinku,’ that he refused 10 cantos, 
about $3,500, for. He sold his hull calf 
at weaning time for six cantos, about 
$3,000. This breed of cattle is praised 
by some and condemned by others. It no 
doubt has its place in this country and 
possibly in others.” 
W ORK HORSE PARADE IN BOS¬ 
TON.—The twelfth annual work¬ 
horse parade in Boston took place 
on Memorial Day, and proved to be the 
largest and biggest parade yet held. 
There were over 1,700 horses in line, 
and they ranged in age from an unweaned 
foal three months old to two champion 
old horses aged, respectively, 40 and 41 
years. In the Old Horse Class there 
were G5 entries, and the gold medal was 
awarded to a little mare aged 34. She 
is owned by a family who also owned 
her dam, and the period of service cov¬ 
ered by the two is 50 years. This Old 
Horse Class was started by the Boston 
Association and has proved to be a great 
success wherever it has been tried, and 
especially at county fairs. An old horse, 
in this sense is one who has been ten 
years or more in the service of the same 
person or concern. Other animals that 
figured in the parade, carried on the wag¬ 
ons, were dogs, goats, lambs and prize 
babies. Every dog received a special 
ribbon. Prizes were also awarded to 
drivers with a long term of service, and 
there were silver and gold badges for 
those who had showed the same horses 
for five or more years. Some interesting 
exhibitions of driving without reins, and 
of tricks by work-horses were given at 
the reviewing stand, and one horse went 
through the parade without any bridle. 
II. C. M. 
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LIVE STOCK NOTES. 
The Ayrshire Cow. 
OW is this for cow to make the farm 
pay? The Ayrshire cow Yucca 
Douglas, 19594, gave 7,412 pounds 
milk as a two-year-old; three years old 
A. R. test, 9,945 pounds milk, 371 pounds 
butter; four years old, 9,739 pounds 
milk, 392.8 pounds butter; following 
freshening, 10,222 pounds milk, 403.88 
pounds butter; next season, 10,994 
pounds milk, 434 pounds butter. She 
gave 6G pounds in one day, 1,735 pounds 
in 39 days, under Advance Register test. 
New Hampshire. ciias. j. hell. 
It. N.-Y.—Surely the farm that would 
not respond to the advances of these 
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