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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
June 19, 1915. 
Live Stock Notes 
Meeting of Holstein-Friesian Breeders. 
Part II. 
There were seven proposed amendments 
to the by-laws introduced for the consid¬ 
eration of the convention. One of these 
had to do with a change in the num¬ 
ber of directors, increasing that number 
from nine to 12. It was pointed out 
that under the membership corporations 
act, under which the association is oper¬ 
ating, no change of this nature could 
be made without due notice, therefore 
the amendment was tabled. Another 
amendment required the auditor to in¬ 
clude in his annual report the name of 
each employe in the offices of the secre¬ 
tary, treasurer, and superintendent of 
Advanced Registry, the number of weeks 
each was employed and the wages re¬ 
ceived. This amendment was adopted. 
It was also voted to apply one-third of 
the moneys appropriated for prizes for 
combined milk and butterfat production, 
to milk production alone. There was 
a very strong feeling of opposition to the 
conduct of the foot and mouth quarantine 
in Chicago since the Dairy Show. Mr. 
Skinner of that city gave an account of 
the methods employed in respect to the 
quarantine, and stated that contrary to 
the general opinion, the g-reat majority o! 
breeders represented at the show and 
whose stock was detained in quarantine, 
were men of ordinary means. He said 
that fully 75 per cent, of them were far 
from being millionaires. When the Fed¬ 
eral quarantine was placed, the breeders 
took over the responsibility and the ex¬ 
penses of the same, and one or two of 
the more wealthy of them contributed 
over $30,000 each toward the payment of 
the expenses of others less able to meet 
them. Mr. Skinner also criticised the 
action of the appraisers sent there from 
the Bureau of Animal Industry at Wash¬ 
ington, whose appraisals of all the pure¬ 
bred stock condemned ran from $75 to 
$100 per head. The association was im¬ 
pressed with the remarks made by Mr. 
Skinner, and promptly passed a resolu¬ 
tion to the effect that it was “the belief 
and conviction” of the meeting that own¬ 
ers of stock detained in quarantine in 
Chicago, on account of foot-and-mouth 
disease, should be reimbursed by the Fed¬ 
eral government for all losses sustained. 
In view of the fact that the Federal 
quarantine had now been removed from 
this stock, and that it could be returned 
to the owners, except in Pennsylvania, 
New York and Massachusetts, where 
State quarantine laws still prevailed, it 
was voted that the State authorities be 
asked to permit the herd of Ayrshires be¬ 
longing to Mr. Chisholm of this State 
to be returned, as his is the only New 
York State herd still detained there. 
Dr. May addressed the meeting on the 
tariff duties on certain milk products. 
The only change in the officers of the 
association was the election of Mr. 
George Van Hagen of Illinois to the 
Board of Directors. Detroit, Mich., was 
chosen as the next place of meeting of 
the association. In the evening the 
State Holstein-Friesian Association gave 
a banquet to the National Association, 
which was attended by about 400. Brief 
addresses were made by E. A. Powell, 
president of the State Association, Com¬ 
missioner of Agriculture, Charles L. Wil¬ 
son, Chancellor Day of Syracuse Univer¬ 
sity, President D. D. Aitken and others. 
j. w. D. 
Selling Milk by the Fat Test. 
The effect of selling milk by test, is in 
my opinion, one much more far-reaching, 
much more benefit to the upbuilding of 
the dairy, and breeding of dairy cattle, 
than Bordens ever dreamed of. In fact 
it founds the only true basis for estab¬ 
lishing the value of a cow, no matter 
what color or breed. In these days, when 
$25 to $35 cows are selling for $60 to 
$75, it is time we have a change, and 
I hope I may see the time when cows 
will not only sell according to the fat 
test, hut that the milk scale and yearly 
production, that is pounds of milk pro¬ 
duced per year, will place the value of a 
cow, and that dairymen will learn to de¬ 
mand this in buying cows. When a man 
can go to a milk sheet and trace the pro¬ 
duct of the cow, for a year, together with 
the fat test, it gives him something be¬ 
sides the outward appearance of the an¬ 
imal. 
I think that by the time Winter feed¬ 
ing comes on, we will see a lot of the low' 
test cows for sale at low r er prices, and 
that buyers will be few', so far as dairy¬ 
men are concerned. This will tend to 
put those cows in the butcher’s hands, 
where they ought to be, and the dairy 
world will be ahead. In this section there 
is a marked increase in the call for Jer¬ 
seys and Guernseys, to help out the black 
and whites, w'hich no doubt form more 
than two-thirds of the cows kept. Now 7 if 
ever is the time for the men with high- 
testing herds of Ilolsteins to come to 
the front and let the world know it, and 
to sell bulls and cows that will improve 
the low-testing herds. We all know 
there are 3.5 and 4% or better, IIol- 
steins, and I for one like the big black 
and white friendly cows, although grade 
cow's of the smaller breeds have always 
paid me better in butterfat. 
In my small herd I have a rough, raw- 
boned, little Jersey, that one w'ould 
think, to look at, ought to be under¬ 
ground ; yet the scales say she stands 
second in pounds produced, and first 
in test, netting me more profit than any¬ 
one of the rest. Further, last year we 
could not dry her off, and she gave us a 
fine female calf. Therefore anything 
that will further the use of the milk rec¬ 
ord and test, will be no loss to the farm¬ 
er. ARTHUR P. WENTWORTH. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
Truth About Cement Silos. 
Several farmers here have been look¬ 
ing up the silos and had decided to build 
cement block silos. Recently we were 
told that in many places they have quit 
using the cement silos, because the ce¬ 
ment peels or crumbles off in the silage, 
and kills the stock it is fed to, and that 
it is not a safe silo to build. It was also 
said we could not build our owm doors; 
if we did we w'ould have to pay a roy¬ 
alty of $20 or $25 each. A. b. s. 
Michigan. 
It seems true that one must go away 
from home to learn the new's (?) and 
this seems a case in point. Certainly 
nothing like the above “calamities” have 
occurred here, where silos are found of 
every kind, on an average 100 to the 
township. The most serious thing in 
building cement block silos, owing to their 
great weight before and after filling, is 
in having the foundation settle at some 
point and crack the silo w r alls. With 
a solid base and the interior walls plast¬ 
ered with the best cement facing there 
is no reason why not only the cement 
block, but also the wholly cement-walled 
silos, are not to be ranked with the best. 
In some cases where silos have been 
cemented on the inside, owing to poor 
material and workmanship, the action 
of the silage has peeled off the cement to 
some extent, but not in amounts to cause 
whole dairies to be exterminated or even 
injured. If the walls are well cemented, 
and then painted over with some of the 
gas tar paints to make the walls moist¬ 
ure-proof, there is no danger whatever. 
Our old silo built 28 years ago, and 
painted inside with gas tar, seems as per¬ 
fect as ever, and has never been repaint¬ 
ed. At one time, some of the hollow brick 
silos gave trouble by the walls cracking 
through weakness, but now all are built 
with reinforcing hoops bedded in the mor¬ 
tar of every third layer of brick, and 
nothing more is now heard of this trou¬ 
ble. The fact is that any kind of a 
silo, if built strong, and made with air¬ 
proof walls, will keep silage, 
The news ( ?) about a $25 royalty on 
silo doors, is all moonshine. There is, 
or was, a claimed patent on a continuous 
iron-framed door and frame, something 
that no farmer could build if he tried, 
but nothing more is being heard about 
this, and silo builders everywhere are 
building any sort of a door they choose 
as being best suited to their silo. Do 
not buy doors. Build them yourself, make 
a door casing of two-inch stuff, 20 to 30 
inches, with the door jambs inside. Make 
unhinged door to fit this frame close, put 
in on the inside, as you fill, so the silage 
will press it close shut. Make five or 
six of these “manholes” on a 30-foot silo. 
Ohio. 
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