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^ I ''HE motor truck, just coming into general 
use on the farm, is fast proving itself a 
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CHICAGO U S A^' 
The Family Cow 
No. I. 
Her Adaptabii-ity. —Hundreds of fam¬ 
ilies living in small country villages have 
a small stable as one of their buildings, 
and have enough land so they can conve¬ 
niently keep one or two cows. Many 
suburbanites working in the city are also 
proud possessors of this valuable bovine. 
There are also many farms specializihg 
along such lines as market gardening, 
poultry, fruit, etc., where one or two 
cows are kept for family use. Many 
other farmers formerly in the dairy busi¬ 
ness have sold all their cows but one or 
two which are kept to supply the needs 
of the family. If one Avere to ask owners 
of “family cows” why they kept them, 
some of the an.swers would be : “For the 
pleasure and e.\'ercise I get out of it,” 
“In order that I may have all the dairy 
products I wish at minimum cost,” “So I 
may have absolutely fresh milk pro¬ 
duced under conditions that I know are 
clean,” all of which are admirable rea- 
.sons for keei)iug the cow. The cow is 
wonderfully well adapted to the small 
farm, since she turns pasture grass, hay, 
corn fodder, roots, etc., which are likely 
to be raised, into nature’s most useful 
food, milk. Furthermore, she does it 
more efficiently than any other animal. 
Selection op the C!ow. —In selecting 
the family cow there are two points to 
consider, namely, the breed, and her 
capability to produce milk and butter fat 
economically. As to breed, the purebred 
animal is hardly the practical oue for the 
family cow. A greater expense is in¬ 
volved, and such cows as a breeder would 
sell to _ a man for family purposes are 
often his poorest cows. As a general rule 
a good grade Jersey makes the best fam¬ 
ily cow, and these cows j>redominate for 
this purpose. The special advantages iu 
her favor are that she produces a grade 
of milk that can be used for the various 
family purposes, such as milk, cream, 
butter, cheese and ice cream, more eco¬ 
nomically than the grades of some other 
breed. By this I mean principally that 
she will require less feed and still produce 
amply to supply the family needs. If one 
wanted to make use of the milk as milk 
on the table, and alsQ use it for infant 
feeding to considerable extent, selling the 
surplu.s, then it would be better to choose 
a grade Holstein cow giving milk testing 
^¥2 to 4 per cent fat. 
Choose a Profitable Cow. —There is 
no reason for keeping an unprofitable 
family cow any more than keeping one in 
a large dairy. Whether the cow is kept 
for the fun of it, or not, there is more 
pleasure to be derived from the proposi¬ 
tion if the owner can satisfy himself he 
is getting his products cheaper from his 
cow than he can buy them, aud also for 
less money than he actually pays to get 
them via his cow. This means that if we 
are to keep a cow, keep a good oue. A 
man perhaps expects to throw in his labor, 
but the cow should at least pay for her 
feed, taxes and interest on investment to 
be considered a success. All beyond this 
is a cause for extra joy. Another point 
about a family cow is that she should be 
a persistent miHier. By that is meant a 
cow that does not go dry over a month or 
six weeks prior to calving. Cows differ 
greatly in this respect, some milking 
heavily for six mouths and then drying 
off rapidly, while others milk more uni¬ 
formly and go dry a short time. It is 
the latter type that is to be desired. 
Propek Type. —Where a cow is pur¬ 
chased for family use, frequently no rec¬ 
ord of production is available and the 
cow must “get by” on her looks. Where 
this must be done one should look for a 
cow that is well developed, lean and 
angular, with a good spring of rib, a weld- 
shaped, capacious udder, and large, crook¬ 
ed milk veins. Avoid the stunted, coarse, 
rough-haired cow with small udder cov¬ 
ered with long hair and milk veins the 
size of a lead pencil. She will net give 
milk enough to nourish the family kit¬ 
tens, but as a rule has a fine appetite. 
Sometimes dairymen breeding up high- 
producing herds may discard cows that 
would really make economical family 
cows. This is a good place to look, be¬ 
cause the cow’s ability as a producer is 
known. Also sometimes dairymen will 
sell off some of their older cows that have 
made good records. If one can get hold 
of one of these cows, bred to a good bull, 
and raise a good calf, it makes a good 
way to start the family herd. To buy 
outright a young cow in her prime is an¬ 
other way to get started, and may prove 
the least expensive iu the long run. The 
main thing to look out for is not to get 
hold of some discard that really belongs 
to the butcher or fertilizer manufacturer. 
That is worse than buying an old second¬ 
hand automobile and will cause the owner 
as much dissatisfaction, although he may 
not think so at time of purchase. 
II. F. JUDKINS. 
A Real Family Cow 
Speaking of family cows, the oue shown 
here would prove a blessing in many a 
country family. Such a cow would fur¬ 
nish milk, cream, butter and pot cheese. 
How the children would enjoy the milk, 
and how the bills would grow smaller as 
the old cow continued to do her duty. 
The cow shown in the picture is evidently 
one of the family and knows her place 
well. The man holding the cow i.s Mr. 
Fred Jlueller of North Tonawanda. N. 
Y., and those children certainly look as 
though they were milk fed and well but¬ 
tered. The family cow is a great institu¬ 
tion wherever there is a supply of hay or 
stalks or other roughage. (jive her a 
chauce, and feed her some grain in addi¬ 
tion, and she will turn such fodder into 
the finest food in the world. 
Milking Shorthorns on the General Farm 
There are a number of reasons why I 
have always advocated the use of this 
class of cows oil the ordinary farm, and 
tliey have always appeared reasonable 
and logical enough for their adoption. 
There are straiii.s of the milking Short¬ 
horns and Polled Durhams, both pure- 
breds and grades, that yield enough milk 
of good (juality per cow to pay the farmer 
for keeping her on the farm, instead of 
the pure dairy or grade-dairy breeds. 
They are more hardy, can rustle for a 
living, and do better on it than a Simon 
Pure piilkiiig iiiachiuo. which is better 
adapted to the dairy farm. The calf of 
either of these breeds, either heifer or 
bull, can be turned into baby beef at 
from 12 to 18 months, even if they have 
to he raised on skim-milk, and calf grain.s 
with the usual roughage grown on a 
thrifty farm, starting about one week 
after they have been dropped or a little 
sooner, and they will more than pay for 
the time, food and work that has been 
bestowed upon them in this time of high- 
.priced meat of all kinds. 
Any farmer on the average-sized gen¬ 
eral farm iu New York State can raise 
aM the necessary feed for these calves, in 
addition to the feed for the regular farm 
units, and can afford to buy in modera¬ 
tion the small amount of concentrated 
feeds that might be required to develoi> 
Slid finish them off for the market. There 
is also the manure of these animals to be 
considered, which is quite an item in a 
year or 15 to IS months, and they can be 
sheltered in Winter in weM-bedded. pro¬ 
tected sheds, with a yard to rwi in, in 
clear weather, as they do not require as 
careful stabling as the cows require of 
the dairy breeds, and will be more healthy 
and rugged than the stabled cow. 
If the farmer only earned from $15 to 
$25 net over and above aU costs of pro¬ 
duction, plus the manure, on these calves, 
it would pay him to do it, and at a fail- 
market price he would certainly make 
more than the above figm-e, as this has 
been gained where feeders have been 
bought instead of raised from the calf. 
There would be a vast difference to the 
population of New York State if each 
farmer who could afford to do it raised 
only one calf per year to beef age instead 
of veal age only, and the beef question of 
the future is too serious to be treated 
lightly by the farming class in general. 
There is another important feature in 
favor of this class of cow for the general 
farm which shonld not he overlooked, i. e., 
if they fail in their duties at the pail or 
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