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BURT & SONS, Box 70, MELROSE, OHIO 
American Agriculturist, June 30,1923 
Hay, Pastures, and the Condition of Cows 
Also Some Pointers on Advertising and Selling Pure-Bred Cattle 
D uring the past -week my work has 
taken me by automobile from south¬ 
ern St. Lawrence County through Syra¬ 
cuse, Ithaca, Elmira, Harrisburg, Pa., 
and on, down to Baltimore. As I drove 
I tried to observe as accurately as pos¬ 
sible the condition of pastures and 
meadows. 
It does not seem to me that I re¬ 
member ever having seen either in 
as poor condition as they are north of 
Harrisburg. Below Harrisburg and on 
down into Baltimore it was harder for 
me to judge because it was my first trip 
over the territory. In the North Coun¬ 
try, however—referring to the great 
dairy section lying north of Syracuse 
and along the St Lawrence River— 
pastures were very short and meadows 
seemed to have suf¬ 
fered from being 
continually frozen 
back. On the whole 
it seems to me that 
conditions in this 
great dairy section 
are such that milk 
production is bound 
to be lower than 
usual. I should 
think this would af¬ 
fect the price of 
milk, so that late 
summer and fall 
prices would be 
pretty good. Please 
understand that the 
above observation is 
simply my own un¬ 
skilled analysis of 
what I saw. 
I should say that 
at least 80 per cent 
of the cows I saw 
were in poor flesh. 
Normally with lush 
pasture, these cows 
would fatten up; on poor pasture 
they will gain only slightly and dry 
up rapidly. It has been my experi¬ 
ence that cows that go out to grass 
thin particularly where they have 
poor pasture, are very unprofitable 
animals. 
The only remedy for the combina¬ 
tion of thin cows and poor pasture 
seems to be liberal grain feeding. From 
what I saw 1 should say that summer 
feeding of grain will pay, grain of 
good quality, not the cheap by-product 
feeds which so many dairymen use— 
if they use anything—during the sum¬ 
mer months. 
Practical Experience With a Thin 
Herd 
On our own farms we are now 
getting some first-hand experience with 
thin, _ undernourished animats. We 
have just brought on one of the farms 
thirty pure-bred Guernseys, which are 
about the thinnest animals I have ever 
seen. In fact they were so thin that 
the boys refused to drive them through 
town until after dark. They have been 
turned into pasture in which the white 
clover and bluegrass is up to their 
knees. How such feed must surprise 
them! 
The first reaction has been a marked 
increase in milk flow. These cows, it 
By H. E. BABCOCK 
seems to us, are now milking way be¬ 
yond their normal capacity; some of 
them, which are so thin they weigh 
only about 800 pounds are milking 40 
pounds a day on two milkings. It will 
be interesting to see whether we can 
maintain satisfactory milk flow with 
these cows and at the 
same time grow them 
into the size and con¬ 
dition which our ex¬ 
perience has proven 
essential to good re¬ 
sults. 
If the editor will 
permit me, I am go¬ 
ing to print a snap¬ 
shot soon of one of 
these animals, show¬ 
ing her in her present 
condition and then 
from time to time I 
will relate the results 
we obtain. 
We ourselves are 
divided as to whether 
the herd, thin and 
stunted as it now is, 
can ever be developed 
into a really profitable 
bunch of cows, de¬ 
spite the very evident 
signs of production 
which most of the 
cows have. Person¬ 
ally I think we can make some real cows 
out of them, but I believe it will take 
two years to do it, and I doubt if they 
will any more than pay their way after 
this first flush of production is over. 
Selling Pure Breds 
For the first time we are in a posi¬ 
tion to offer pure-bred Guernsey bull 
calves from cows with official records. 
This brings us face to face with the 
advertising problem, and with the 
further task of answering inquiries re¬ 
sulting from advertisements. 
After studying the advertisements 
which reach us and the answers to let¬ 
ters of inquiry which we have received, 
we have decided 
as a trial to rely 
very largely on 
pictures, pedi¬ 
grees, and pro¬ 
duction records, 
both in our ad¬ 
vertising and our 
answers to in¬ 
quiries. 
We have pho¬ 
tographed the 
sire of our calves, 
the dams, and the 
calves themselves. 
These' pictures we 
have grouped so as 
to show the sire, 
the dam, and the 
resultant calf. 
The illustrations 
on this page show 
the grouping. 
Such a group of 
pictures, showing 
the entire family, 
together with the 
pedigree of the calf and the official 
records of the cows in the pedigree is 
just what we would like to receive 
from an advertiser if we were inquir¬ 
ing about a bull. Whether it will prove 
what is wanted by the men who in¬ 
quire of us, and will result in sales, 
is yet to be proven. We pass the sug¬ 
gestion' on for what it is worth. 
M. C. BITRRITT AND DR. CHAND¬ 
LER TO LEAVE NEW YORK 
STATE COLLEGE 
At their meeting on June 18, the Trus¬ 
tees of Cornell University received the 
resignations of Dr. W. H. Chandler, 
Professor of Pomology and Vice-Director 
of Research in the New York State Col¬ 
lege of Agriculture, who leaves on June 
30, to accept appointment as Research 
Professor of Pomology at the Univer¬ 
sity of California; and of M. C. Bur- 
ritt, Vice-Director of Extension,'whose 
resignation will be effective December 
31. Director Burritt leaves to take up 
the management of his excellent fruit 
'farm at Hilton, Monroe County. 
Dr. Chandler came to the New York 
State College of Agriculture from the 
University of Missouri in 1913, as a 
Research Professor of Pomology, He 
was advanced to the head of the De¬ 
partment of Pomology in 1915, when C. 
S. Wilson, the former head, became 
State Commissioner of Agriculture. 
.When the Legislature created the 
position of Vice-Director of Research 
in 1920, Dr. Chandler was elected to 
this position. 
Vice-Director Burritt was graduated 
from Cornell, in 1908. He was elected 
to the staff of the College in 1914, 
giving up the editorship of the “New 
■^ork Tribune Farmer” for the College 
position. ■ He was 
State Leader of 
County Agricultural 
Agents from 1914 to 
1916. He has held 
his present position 
since 1917, being the 
first person to hold 
a vice-directorship at 
the College. 
In announcing their 
resignations to-day. 
Dean A. R. Mann 
stated “The resigna¬ 
tions of Vice-Direc¬ 
tors Chandler and 
Burritt take from 
the State College 
two men of great 
ability and merit, 
who are Reid in high 
esteem and confi¬ 
dence by their asso¬ 
ciates. 
“Dr. Chandler is 
recognized as one of 
the leading pomolo- 
gists in America, 
and his scientific contributions have 
been not only highly beneficial to the 
fruit-growing industry of New York, 
but also of great value to scientists 
working elsewhere in this field. He 
leaves Cornell because of the superior 
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