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'^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 6, 191S 
Some of the Finest Holstein Cows 
That the Breed Has Produced 
I.arKc, typlcral, (Tairy niieons, six with records of 30 to S3 Vi Hw. Initter iii a week; benu- 
llfiil 2-year-olds witli records up to 21 lbs. butter In 7 days; a fine, straight, splendidly 
developed, well grown, gotsl conditioned, all-the-year-ronnd-producing lot—the kind that 
will multiply profits for the farmer-dairyman-—comprise the offerings In 
The 1918 Sale 
SYRACUSE, N. Y. APRIL 16-17,1918 
Six Dozen or More Head of Milking Age 
Profit-pnslncei's for the every-day dairyman who must have bigger milk dividends; also 
an attraclive array of linely brisi heifers, and a few high-class young bulls, im-ludlng a 
last November son ot King Korndyke Sadie Vale from a 34-lb. d'ani. In the sale are 
Two 33-11). Cows; a 32-lb. Cow 
Two 31-lb. Cows; a 30-lb. Cow 
Two daughters of King of the I’ontiacs (one a 31-lb. daughter of a 30-lb. dam); a 23.97- 
Ib. 2Vi-yr-old daughter of the .“i;!.'>,000.00 44-lb. bull, and from a 33-11). dam; cows with 
records of 29, 27, 20 and 2o-ib. butler in 7 days, etc., etc. 
A sale of unblemished, tuberculin-tested, high-class, dairy Ilolsteins, all to be sold abso¬ 
lutely to the highest bidder. 
The consignors—Abbott & (Hark, Paul T. Hrady, A. .\. Oortelyou, K. K. Chapin & Son, 
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J. A. I.each. 
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Fat Producing Holstein Cows 
I keep Holstein cattle and now de.sire 
to make butter, and therefore wish to get 
cows that give milk with a high percent¬ 
age of butter fat. Are there known 
strains of such Ilolsteins that would 
come within the means of an ordinary in¬ 
dividual, or .shall I have to test cows and 
buy only such as will give a high per¬ 
centage of fat? If so, of course the prob¬ 
lem of getting the proper bull would be a 
difficult one. I desire, therefore, to build 
up a herd of Ilolsteins giving milk wdth a 
high percentage of butter fat. J. A. ii. 
IIolstein-Friesiau cattle have certainly 
been bred in this country to produce much 
richer milk than their Holland ancestors 
gave. At the time of the Columbian Ex¬ 
position in 1S93, I recollect that I was 
a breeder of .Tersoy cattle, and I remem¬ 
ber that the Jersey admirers got imich 
satisfaction out of the fact that the mixed 
milk of the IIolstein-Friesiau herd that 
was shown there gave milk testing below 
the legal standard of 3 per cent fat. Noth¬ 
ing of that sort would happen at the pres¬ 
ent time, ^^^lile a good many breeders 
have striven to jiroduce cows to give a 
great flow of milk to produce a big butter 
yield, still many more Iiave given especial 
attention to increasing the richness of the 
milk. 
How can a breed of cattle be changed 
without introducing foreign blood? 
Why, that is easy enough. As an illus¬ 
tration let us suppose that an old farmer 
no years ago hfid two sous and 50 old- 
fashioned native cows. He gave 25 of 
these cows to each of his .sons. John took 
his cows and went West and began rais¬ 
ing beef. lie selected a hull calf from his 
most beefy type of cow and then fed 
him on a beef-making ration. This bull 
he placed at the head of his herd, and, 
when he had to change bulls, he rei)eated 
the performance. He follows this for 50 
years, never going outside his own herd 
for new blcxyd, hut always breeding and 
feeding for l)eef. 
Henry stayed on the old farm in the 
East, and followed dairying. He did the 
same thing with his herd from a dairy 
.standpoint that .John did with Ids from 
a beef standpoint. 
Now, just suppose that at tlu! end of 
50 .years these two herds were brought 
together and mingled. Do you suppose 
that it would be much of a job to sepa¬ 
rate them again? Not at all. There 
would be two distinct type.s of cattle, a 
beef .herd and a dairy herd. Still, tliey all 
came from that one herd of common 
scrubs that were neither bc'ef nor dairy 
cattle, 
J'he Holsteiii-Frie.sian cow was bred in 
her native land for milk. She was the 
greatest cheese-producing cow in the 
world. I suppose that -the Dutch bred 
this type of cow because they were the 
most convenient for them to bretHl. That 
is, the cattle food produced iu Holland 
had a tendeiu'y to produce a cow that 
would give an enormous quantity of thin 
milk, Holland is a great gras.s and root- 
producing country, but is not a great 
grain producer. Therefore, the cows got 
to give a lot of milk, but they did not get 
fat, or put much fat iu their milk. When 
the Ilolsteins came to this countr.v they 
fotmd (lilTerent conditions. Here corn is 
king, and corn makes fat. The reason 
that the Ilolsteins have not l)oen turned 
into beef cattle in this country is that 
they have been handled with wisdom. 
Our dairymen know that a dairy cow 
must have a balanced ration to do her 
best; not too much fat nor too much pro¬ 
tein, but just the right proportion. 
The Jersey cow is a great fat pro¬ 
ducer, and the Jersey breeders laughed at 
the Holstein breeders because their cows 
gave .sucli poor milk. Some of the Hol¬ 
stein breeders got sensitive and said : “I’ll 
show those fellows a thing or two,’’ and 
proceeded to feed and breed their cows 
for better fat production. They have 
shown them with the cow that has made 
50 pounds of butter iu a week. I h.ave 
before me a report of Holsteiu-Friesian 
butter records received by Secretary Gard¬ 
ner from January 12 to February 5, and 
I find that of the 47 leading cows, 13 gave 
milk testing from 3.3 per cent to 4 per 
cent butter fat: 23 tested from 4 per 
cent to 5 per cent fat; 10 from 5 per cent 
to 0 per cent, and one tested (5.34 per 
cent fat. T’lease do not infer that I wish 
it understood that the average Holstein- 
Friesian cow tests around 5 per cent fat, 
but I do know that most of the cows that 
are making big records are doing it. 
•T. GRANT MORSE. 
Haird Churning 
Our cream does not churn, although 
one cow wa.s fresh early in December, 
The cows have salt, the feed is varied. 
The cream is kept at about 50 degrees 
until the day before, when heated to 80 
degrees to ripen, then cooled. A. F. .s. 
Some of the principal causes for diffi¬ 
cult churning are; the number of cow.® 
in the herd and their stage of lactation, 
the breed, the feed, the richne.^s of the 
cream, the fullness of the churn and 
the churning temperature. You state 
that one cow w’as fresh in December, 
but do not state how' many have been 
milking for some time. As the cow ad¬ 
vances in lactation the cream from her 
milk churns with greater difficulty. In¬ 
dividual cows var.v in this respect a great 
deal and cream from .Tersey or Guernsey 
milk churns easier than that of the other 
herds. 
Rich cream from the separator, say 
30 per cent, churns easier than thin 
cream testing 20 per cent. The churn 
should be filled about one-third full to 
secure the b(‘st results. If the churn is 
too full, there is not room enough to 
secure the necessary concussion, and if 
it is not full enough the cream simply 
flows around and coats up the sides of 
the churn. At this time of year the 
churning temperature should be (50 to 
02 for rich cream and (55 degrees for thin 
cream. It is essential that an accurate 
thermometer be used, becau.se at this 
time of year if the churning temperature 
is just a few degrees low it means pro¬ 
longed churning. If you are not able to 
remedy the trouble from studying these 
suggested possibilities, try heating your 
cream to 140 to 145 degrees F. and hold¬ 
ing there for ,30 minutes. Then cool it 
to churning temperature and hold it over 
night and churn it sweet. Pasteurized 
sweet cream churns easier than raw 
sweet cream. The pasteurizing may be 
accomplished by setting the pail of cream 
into a larger pail of hot water on the 
s^^ove. n. F. .T. 
Cornstalks to Horses 
Owing to the severe Winter and early 
1‘ all I have been unable to get my corii 
husked until the recent thaws aiid am 
at a lo.ss to know what to do with the 
shredded stalks. I only keep four cows, 
but have five horses and two colts, and 
had thought I would feed some of the 
fodder to them. I have heard that it 
was dangerous to feed this fodder to 
horses on account of the black .smut on 
the corn, which is claimed to be poison. 
Can you give me some information on 
the subject? Would the fodder be iu- 
jurious to the horses? Would it do to 
feed it entirely in the place of hay? I 
have sold my hay to Government buyers 
and expect to move it S(X)n, but mu.st keep 
some in ca.se I cannot feed the corn fod¬ 
der. F. w. w. 
We have for some year.s, fed our 
horses largely on corn fodder in ^\’■inte^. 
We would not feed moldy stalks to 
horses, hut throw such fodder out and 
let the cows pick it over. If the fodder 
is light cut the hay feed in two and make 
up ration with stalks. Dry .stalks are con¬ 
stipating in their effect, and we have 
found it wi.se to feed a little oil meal, 
raw potatoes or other roots or waste 
molasses with the stalks. Too many 
farmers wait until late and then feed 
moldy stalks aloiu*. 
Ration for Jerseys 
Would you advise a ration for Jersey 
cows for Winter and when on grass? I 
have hay without clover and oats cut 
when in the milk. Must buy all other 
feed. I would like to use dried beet pulp 
and brewers’ grains. I have oats in the 
sheaf. F. T. E. 
Feed all hay cows will clean up and 
make grain rations two parts brewers’ 
grains, two parts cottonseed meal, one 
part oil meal and one part dried beet 
pulp. Oat hay probably ranks next to 
clover for feeding the dairy cow. 
H. F. J. 
