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Does Your 
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means comfort for the cow and a gen¬ 
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great healing ointment, will keep_ the 
udder free from sores, chaps, cuts, bruises, 
cracks, bunches and inflammation. Bag Balm is 
especially effective at the calving period when 
caked bag frequently occurs. _ Its penetrating 
and softening effect is immediate. Every dairy 
should keep Bag Balm on band. 
Bold by druggists and feed dealera. In big 50c pack¬ 
ages. Write for free booklet, “Dairy Wrinkles.’’ 
DAIRY ASSOCIATION CO., LyndonvIlIe.Vt. 
COOK YOUR FEED and ADD 
' ? to its value—with the 
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Keeps live stock in thrifty condition. 
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When you write advertisers mention 
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Live Stock and 0airy 
A Great Guernsey Cow 
Two years ago W’e gave the yearly rec¬ 
ord of Murne Cowan 19597, the great 
Guernsey cow—a former world's cham¬ 
pion. Many of these great performers go 
to pieces after their supreme effort and 
never get near it again. This cow% how¬ 
ever, is different. At 12 years old she has 
completed her third year’s test, produc¬ 
ing ITjoSS..! pounds of milk and 791.76 
pounds of fat in one year. Her great 
year’s record was 24,008 pounds of milk 
and 1,098.18 pounds of butter fat. The 
average of her three yearly records is 
19,.37.8.6 pounds of milk and 911.78 
pounds of butter fat, and it is doubtful 
if any otlier cow of any breed has ever 
made such an extiuided i-ecord. Think 
per cent. There no doubt are a few that 
will test above or below this, but the 
great mass are within these figures. We 
can increase or diminish the percentage 
of fat in a cow’s milk but very little by 
the feed, but we can influence the quan¬ 
tity very much. 
New York is a liquid milk State, and 
not a butter State. Every year this be¬ 
comes more and more pronounced. This 
being so, we must breed for a cow' that 
will bring the best returns for the sale 
of milk. We are getting $3 per cwt. for 
3 per cent milk and 4c for each one-tenth 
above that amount. I have listened to 
the conversation the patrons of a ship¬ 
ping .station hold, and have many times 
olisorved that the man who sold the 
Jersey Calf Sans Aloi’s Red Cross. Fig. 648 
what this ability to produce heavily one 
year and then come back and repeat will 
mean in the value of her sons and daugh¬ 
ters. IShe has .three sons and three 
daughters registered, and they all pos¬ 
sess the ability to pass their mother’s 
good qualities on to their offspring. The 
grandfather of IMnrne Cowan, Lilly 
Ella’s Jeweller 5417 A. 11., has 44 regis¬ 
tered daughters and 38 sons, all with 
good dairy records. This family of Guern¬ 
seys gives us a good illustration of the 
value of pure blood from a family of 
knowui performers. Of course, it is im¬ 
possible for practical dairymen to use 
such expensive blood in their dairy herds, 
but they should all consider the fixed law 
df inheritance which this cow’s breeding 
proves. The heifer calves in your herd 
are sure to “look like father’s folks.” The 
female ancestors of your bull will re¬ 
appear in his daughters. 
Amount of Butter From Cream 
How many pounds of butter can be 
made from four quarts of cream? 
New York, MRS. A. H. A. 
Since pure butter fat or oil is the prin¬ 
cipal constituent of butter and cream, 
and since cream varies greatly in its but¬ 
ter fat content, the amount of butter that 
can be made from a gallon of cream de¬ 
pends almost entirely on the butter fat 
content of the cream. On the average, a 
pound of pure butter fat makes 1 1-6 
pounds of butter; on this basis the fol¬ 
lowing table is worked out: 
Weight 
Butter 
Butter 
Butter Fat 
of 
Fat in 
from 
in Cream. 
1 Gal. 
1 Gal. 
1 Gal. 
Per Cent. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
20 
8.4 
1.08 
1.948 
25 
8.36 
2.09 
2 424 
30 
8.28 
2.48 
2;8S1 
35 
8.16 
2.85 
3.312 
40 
8.08 
3.23 
3.746 
ir. F. j. 
What Cow Shall I Breed ? 
One of the questions that are continu¬ 
ally coming up iu the question box of our 
Granges and institutes is this: “What 
kind of a cow shall I try to breed?” I 
do not think this question can be ans¬ 
wered by naming any particular breed, 
for the ideal cow is found in most breeds, 
as well as the misfit cow. The percentage 
of fat in cows’ milk varies from 2.5 to 6 
richo.st milk was rather inclined to brag 
over his neighbor, whose milk did not 
test as high. lie seems to feel that he 
is making the most money, because his 
check is the larger for the same amount 
of milk. Let us look into the matter and 
see if this is so. The cost of producing 
milk is not iu the quantity of milk as it is 
the .solids of the milk. That is, it takes 
above the cost of maintenance about the 
same to make 100 lbs. of 4 per cent milk 
as it does 133i/j lbs. of 3 per cent milk. 
If this is so, and many experiments 
verify this, let us see how two lots of 
milk, one of 4 iier cent and one of 3 per 
cent, compare in profit. One hundred 
lbs. of 4 per cent milk of course contains 
4 lbs. of fat, and at Dairy League prices 
brings as follows: 3 lbs. fat at $1 equal 
.$3; 1 lb, fat at 4c per one-tenth, 40c., 
$3.40. That is, the 100 lbs. of 4 per cent 
milk brings $.3.40. The lbs. of 3 
per cent milk would figure like this: 4 
lbs. of fat at $1 per lb. equal $4. This 
means that the latter brings 00c more 
than the richer milk. So you see that 
the man who was congratulating himself 
because he got a larger check than his 
neighbor for the same amount of milk 
was actually getting les.s. 
Now this brings us back to the first 
question : “What kind of a cow shall I 
breed?” She should be a large, rugged 
cow that will give a large flow of not too 
rich milk. About 3.5 per cent will be 
right. Do not try to breed down to the 
3 per cent line, or you may make the 
mistake of going below. But by all means 
breed from a sire whose dam gives a 
large flow of milk. There may come a 
time when we shall have a class of cows 
that will give a very large flow of very 
rich milk, but we have not reached this 
yet. Some are still trying to do this by 
crossing breeds, although it has been 
proved over and over that it cannot be 
done. Better keep to one breed. There 
are families in all breeds that will fill 
the bill. GEORGE W. ROGERS. 
Oswego Co., N. Y. 
A Red Cross Jersey Calf 
The following story is told about the 
calf pictured at Fig. 648: 
As a climax to the 1917 Dairy Cattle 
Congress. Waterloo. la., an auction sale 
was held for the benefit of the American 
December 1, 1917 
Red Cross. A six months’ old .Jersey heifer 
calf, which scampered into the sales ring 
with a Red Cross blanket on its back, 
brought forth the plaudits of a throng of 
5,000 spectators, and after 60 seconds of 
spirited bidding she was sold for $500. 
This sum is believed to be the highest 
that has yet been realized by the sale of 
a calf for the Red Cross fund. This 
calf was immediately placed on exhibition 
in Machinery Hall, where she was resold 
one hour later to Mr. A. E. Haswell of 
Waterloo, la., for $600. Mr. Haswell is 
a Waterloo business man, and he plans 
to put on a boys’ and girls’ contest by 
which a still greater sum of money will 
be turned over to the local chapter. 
The calf’s name is Sans Aloi’s Goldskin 
Finance, but this will be changed to Sans 
Aloi’s Red Cross. The boy or girl who 
eventually will get the calf for keeps will 
be the owner of a double grand-daughter 
of Sans Aloi, a bull with several daugh¬ 
ters in the Register of Merit. Sans Aloi’s 
Red Cross is a line-bred heifer of Finance- 
Interest breeding from the Waterloo Jer- 
.sey Farm, the donors of the calf. 
LIVE STOCK NOTES 
Increasing Interest in Beef Cattle 
From an island in Lake Michigan a 
local farmers’ union sent a load of 61 
head of fat cattle recently to the 
Union Stock Yards, Chiicago. These 
cattle were bred, raised, and fitted on 
the upper end of Door County, on a 
part entirely surrounded by water. They 
wei’e loaded on a motor boat and sent 
across Green Bay to Escanaba, loaded 
in a Northwestern car and shipped to the 
market here. They were accompanied by 
one attendant, Arthur Wickman. This 
incident seems to show that beef cattle 
are being raised in unusual places, and 
are brought to market by novel means of 
transportation, that many nooks are re¬ 
lied on to help supply roa.sts and .steaks 
for Uncle Sam’s people at home or 
abroad. Manager Ileide, of the Inter¬ 
national Livestock Exposition, says that 
premium lists are being sent to many 
new places this year, and when the show 
opens in December the herdsmen will 
be able to tell of interesting experiences 
in a hitherto unheard-of loc.ality. 
Illinois. J. L. GRAFF. 
Lamb Cholera 
I am having trouble raising my lambs 
this Fall. They seem to have scours, and 
are very weak. Post-mortem shows noth¬ 
ing the matter with them, except there 
appear to be warts on their intestines. 
Can you advise me what the trouble is, 
and a remedy for it? G. B. C. 
Owego, N. Y. 
I think these lambs have lamb cholera. 
It comes from emaciated mothers, and it 
also comes when the mothers are too well 
taken cai’e of. The milk sours on the lit¬ 
tle lambs, and they cannot stand much ad¬ 
versity. Cut down the rich feed of the 
ewes. There is another element which 
must enter here. Either there is an acid 
in the milk or it carries a tendency to 
make the acid that injures the digestion 
of the lambs, and we have found that a 
little common baking soda with the salt of 
the mothers, helps considerable, w. W. R. 
Women as Cattle Breeders 
At a sale of imported Shorthorn cattle 
at the Union Stock Yards, held on the 
first three days of November, there was 
the greatest attendance of women ever 
seen at a like show in Chicago. At one 
jilace in the audience two ladies took 
seats side by side. One of them took out 
her knitting, and her needles clicked in¬ 
dustriously for several hours without a 
halt. The lady who sat beside her inter¬ 
ested herself in what was going on in the 
sales ring. She became an active bidder, 
and in a comparatively short time she 
had bought four young heifers at prices 
ranging from $600 to $1,000. The name 
of the buyer is Miss May Stryker, and 
her farm home is near Plainfield, Ill. She 
owns 200 acres and keeps Shorthorn cat¬ 
tle exclusively. Among stockmen of the 
Middle West she is known as an accom¬ 
plished judge of beef animals, therefore 
buying is no great task for her. 
Among the entrants of livestock at the 
International Livestock Show in Chicago 
there are many young Avomen, some of 
them mere girls. They have entered 
calves, swine and sheep. Five of them 
include Miss Eva LaAvless, Hafford, Sas^ 
katchewan, Can.; Miss Ruby Mc^Iillan, 
Mabel, Minn.; Miss Jennie E. Turner, 
DeWitt, la., showing calves; Miss Mabel 
Alt, Rockford, O., pen of three barrows; 
Miss Jennie E. Turner, DeWitt, la., pen 
of three lambs. 
Thie Shorthorn cattle sold have in inter¬ 
esting history. They Avere brought across 
the Atlantic no longer ago than last Sep¬ 
tember, and dodged the U-hoat warfare 
only by unceasing vigilance. One coav sold 
for $4,200, and a bull for $3,2.50 Among 
them were some of the most heantiful 
heifers ever seen in Chicago. J. L. G. 
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