7*f RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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April 24, 1920 
Milk and Live Stock 
Beginning with Purebred Cows 
It has been my wish for some time to 
get a start iH good cows. I do not intend 
to sell milk, but will make butter and sell 
the separated mMk, and buttermilk is to 
be fed to poultry. If this be possible. I 
should be glad to have cows give liberal 
quantity of milk, rich In butterfat; but 
if such cows are hard to find and too high 
in price my second choice would be cows 
which give a fair quantity of milk and 
which is very rich in butterfat. I have 
in mind Jersey. Ilolsteiu, Shorthorn and 
Ayrshire stock, but do not know anything 
of the latter two. If it were not for the 
fact that my resources are limited I think 
that I should prefer cows about five years 
old. and which have calved two or three 
times; as I am not able to buy good cows 
of above age it has occurred to me to buy 
calves as young as they can and should be 
bought. It seems to me perhaps best to 
buy them as soon as they are weaned, say 
at six weeks, or. if this be too early, then 
as soon as they have learned to eat rough 
feed, so that they can be shipped. I have 
in mind registered stock or which is eli¬ 
gible to registry, and which when say five 
years old will be worth not Jess than $200 
each. I should also want one male calf 
of same breed to be used for breeding 
when mature. The number of heifer 
calves I should buy would depend upon 
cost. I should like to get from two to 
four, however. Will you please advise me 
ns to the wisdom of this plan (bearing 
in mind that I shall make butter instead 
of selling whole milk). Please name 
breed which you think most suitable. I 
like both Jersey and Holstein stock, but 
for some reason I lean toward Jerseys; 
perhaps this is because I am now fat¬ 
tening a Holstein which has had one 
calf: she gave a good quantity of milk, 
but it was (or seemed to be) very poor in 
butterfat. And she also dropped badly in 
quantity too early. I think. What should 
such calves cost me today, please? 
West Virginia. ir. w. G. 
The following represents the opinion of 
several breeders to whom we referred this 
ductiou of those food ingredients that are 
so essential for all, men and animals 
ill ike. B. WALTER M’KEEN. 
Outlook For the Dairy Business 
The dairying problem is a serious one. 
I think there are as many cows milked 
as usual this Spring, but not the amount 
of milk there should be from the number 
of cows. The farmers are not feeding 
the amount they should 1 to produce the 
milk. The farmers are dissatisfied and 
discouraged. Some have offered their 
cows for sale. The reasons are the high 
price of feed, the scarcity of farm labor 
and the low price of milk. g. a. s. 
Delaware Co., N. Y. 
The ouHook for dairy in this locality 
is very poor. There will not be as many 
cows milked as usual, and farmers are 
not satisfied with the outlook. I don’t 
think there will be as much milk sent 
from this station as in former years. 
The chief causes for these conditions, are 
high cost of labor, and in many cases 
there is no labor at any price, and the 
difference between the price paid the 
farmer for his milk and the price the 
farmer must pay for grain is so great 
that it is very discouraging to tin* farmer. 
Cheuanwr© Co., N. Y. * s. j. a. 
Having been a farmer and milk pro¬ 
ducer all my life, will say I consider the 
milk situation in a very serious condition, 
cause by the large distributors of the city. 
I think many good cows will find their 
way to the slaughter house, au'd the pro¬ 
duction of milk will decrease. I. V. E. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
The outlook is not very promising, and 
there Is general dissatisfaction and dis¬ 
couragement among the dairymen. On 
investigation- I have found that there 
will be quite a reduction in the number 
of cows milked, and also the output of 
milk will probably 1>e lowered by a radical 
cut in the feeding of the stock. This drop 
in the production will become serious by 
next Fall.. William Thoman. a prosper 
ous young farmer of this section, ex¬ 
pressed himself as follows: The low beef 
market seems to restrain some dairymen 
from selling out, which, including prevail¬ 
ing conditions, will mean a tremendous 
sacrifice. Resides the high cost of dairy 
feed, the labor question is very serious iii 
this section, and it is my firm opinion 
that there is no rosy future in dairying 
for anyone unless conditions will take a 
radical change. I also may say that some 
of the farmers in this section are wonder¬ 
ing of what benefit the Dairymen's 
League has been to them, and they are 
trying to find out what the officers of the 
League have done the last few years. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. c. L. K. 
A great many of our farmers are try¬ 
ing to do what they can. being short of 
help, which is going to cut out a lot of 
work on the farms that ought to be done 
to keep up the farm as they ought to be. 
Wheat is looking fine and will ne har¬ 
vested. Fruit promises fairly well. but. 
Baldwin bloom does not appear very 
heavy. We have one farm of 700 acres 
here that is owned by women, and I am 
told that they lost money last year, and 
this year thev have not hired a man, and 
will let it go They can well afford to 
do that, for they are wealthy. There are 
some good farmers that are doing what 
they can alone. Men can be had, u' they 
felt they could pay the price, but tlie 
way thimrs have been going they felt they 
could not pay from $77 to $100 per 
month, and those figures are common, 
considering the privileges they are get¬ 
ting. There are too many idle men in 
this country, and too large a proportion 
of non-producers that must be fed. and 
the time has come, when the small con¬ 
sumers must expect to pay for the cost of 
living. t. b. w. 
Ontario Co., X. Y. 
The general outlook in my vicinity for 
dairying is fair. Most of the farmers in 
my neighborhood make butter and sell 
direct to consumers at a fair price. Nearly 
all small dairies, from 7 to ID'cows is 
average. We have a cheese factory in 
town which pays League prices at fac¬ 
tory. o. 
Davenport, N. Y. 
I do not think there will be as many 
cows milked this season. I myself wifi 
have to sell some or buy a milking ma¬ 
chine. The farmers here are rather blue. 
Feed is so high and milk so cheap the 
farmer will have to douate liis labor from 
now till grass. The Nestle Company 
has bought the Borden plant here, an I 
it will only handle R grade milk. R 
wants even better milk, and pays from 
20c to 40c per cwt. less for it. The 
farmers here, as a rule, have confidence 
in the League and its officers, and think 
they did all they possibly could for us for 
April milk. Anything done to discredit 
the officers in the eyes of the members 
will cripple the League and make it use¬ 
less. Constructive criticism from such a 
paper as The B. N.-Y. will always help 
the League and the individual farmer. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. c. d. c. 
This locality was wonderfully favored 
last year, hay and corn were bumper 
crops and pastures were excellent last 
Summer. Cows gave large amouuts of 
milk last year under such favorable con¬ 
dition of good pastures and after feed and 
lots of good silage and hay for Winter 
feeding. Many more cows were kept than 
would have been in an ordinary year. 
Farmers generally kept all the good cows 
they could. ITiees have been good, and 
are seeping them now, I think, where they 
are able to care for them. Farm help 
is scarce, and some have had to sell their 
cows on that account. The amount of 
milk produced and shipped will depend on 
the season a good deal. We have had a 
series of good years, and what the coming 
Summer will be we do not know. We' 
are told that there is a surplus of milk, 
and farmers are anxious about it. Help 
is higher and so is feed. We know milk 
is lower in price, and hope that will take 
care of the surplus'. I hope the coming 
Summer may bring us good crops. Would 
rather have a season of abundance than 
a dry year and high prices for the little 
we have. Dairying is the mainstay of 
the farmers in this locality. We have 
had many failures and disappointments, 
the same as other kinds of farming, hut 
it is the most profitable kind of farming 
we know of here, so I am sure we should 
have faith in our work and do the best 
we can. C. H. ti. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
question. As this mau has little experi¬ 
ence. most breeders would hesitate to ad¬ 
vise him to buy purebred calves of any 
breed. The value of such animals will 
depend almost entirely on the way they 
are developed during their youth and the 
first few lactation periods. The pure 
blood in these calves will not put them 
through if they are neglected ; it will only 
make them more disappointing. If you 
buy six weeks’ old calves you cannot hope 
to reach your ideal unless you can give 
them skim-milk for three or four months 
and also feed during the next two years 
a value in grain equal to the cost of the 
calf. If you will meet these conditions 
you ought to produce some $200 cows. 
As far breeds, if you take good care of 
Jersey, Holstein, Guernsey or Ayrshire, 
you will find them all producing about the 
same amount of butter in a year, but they 
will vary in the amount of milk required 
to carry that butter. The Holstein usual¬ 
ly gives one quarter more milk. but. of 
course, that requires more feed. As for 
prices, six weeks’ calves, purebred and 
registered, will cost about as follows: 
Jersey, about $7.”; Holstein. $7*7 to $12.>; 
Guernsey, $127 to $200. and Ayrshire. 
$77 to $100. This price will depend large¬ 
ly on the animal’s breeding. These calves 
can be bought if desired, but any man who 
gets these little things must remember 
that they require purebred care. 
Oats and Peas in Silo 
I note that you ask in your “Brevities.” 
on page 72(5: “Have you ever used o.iis 
and Canada peas in the silo? If so, how 
did they turn out?” 
My experience with these feeds in the 
silo is limited to two years, and the re¬ 
sults were far from satisfactory. The 
expense of putting oats, or oats and pens, 
in the silo is too large to warrant the 
practice. It is not only much more work 
to handle the loose, tangled mass, but 
it is work of the hardest kind. They do 
not go through the cutter with the same 
ease as corn. 
Then the silage is far from being of 
first quality. The air in the stalks tends 
to make it dark in color, rank smelling 
and very acid. Cattle will eat it. but not 
with the same relish they do corn silage. 
Oats and peas, like all other easily cured 
fodders, had better be. dried in the field, 
and corn, the great American silage crop, 
used as a silage crop. More feeding 
value on a given area can be produced 
in corn than in any other crop and over 
a larger area than any other crop. 
I have but little sympathy for those 
who are trying to build over the corn 
plant and make it more of nitrogen pro¬ 
ducing crop. Better let it remain as it 
left the hands of the Creator. There is 
nothing its equal among crops of its class. 
Grow other crops for the protein they 
contain. Depend upon corn for the pro- 
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