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HENRY W. SATTERTHWAITE - Woodbourne, Pa. 
American Agriculturist, December 8, 1923 
Does a Cow Need a Rest? 
Recent Experiences that Question the Usual Practice 
I S it necessary to By H. E. 
dry off a cow and 
rest her between milking periods? The aver¬ 
age dairyman will tell you emphatically “Yes”. 
He may be right, but recently I have been 
getting some experience which leads me to 
question somewhat the usual dairy practice 
of drying off milking cows for six weeks to 
three months. 
The experience has come in handling cows 
on advanced registry test. The Guernsey 
Breeders Association recognizes two kinds of 
official records—those made by cows which 
milk for a year without regard to the length of 
time a calf is carried, and those made by cows 
which carry a calf 265 days during the period 
of the year’s test. A cow in the latter class 
must practically produce a calf at the same 
time she makes her year’s record, since cows 
carry their calves but 283 days on the average. 
As pure-bred calves are one of our chief 
sources of income we have been testing as 
many cows as possible under this second class. 
This means that we have bred them within 
six weeks to three months after freshening. 
One cow has completed her year’s work 
under this system and another has practically 
completed hers. Both cows have milked con¬ 
tinuously during the year, including the day 
they freshened. Both cows have made un¬ 
usually large records; Elmroad’s Lady Rilma 
finished with 19,015 pounds of milk for the 
year and Lady Mary of Sunnygables will 
break the world’s record for senior three-year- 
old Guernseys by over 500 pounds. 
The care which these cows have received 
has necessarily been the very best we could 
give them. And here, perhaps, is where we 
have gained a bit of valuable experience which 
I am passing on to American Agriculturist 
readers for what it is worth. 
Cared for as they were, these two cows have 
not only produced a remarkable amount of 
milk but have both dropped strong, robust 
calves and after freshening have picked up 
on milk production to practically the same 
amount which they made when they freshened 
after several weeks rest. 
Does not this experience prove that care as 
much as rest is vital to the dairy cow at the 
time she freshens? I am convinced of one thing, 
at least: I would much rather have a cow 
milked right up to the time she freshens and 
given the best of care than to have her dry 
for two months or six weeks, during which 
time she is half starved, half watered and, 
generally abused. And this is the lot of the 
average dry cow in the average dairy herd. 
Just how a cow that is well cared for will 
produce up to freshening and at the time of 
freshening may be interesting. Our official 
records show that Elmroad Lady Rilma 
milked 36.9 lbs. on September 1, fifteen days 
before freshening; on September 12, three 
days before freshening, 17 lbs.; on September 
15, the day she freshened, 20.7 lbs. besides 
what her calf took. 
Lady Mary, three days before freshening, 
milked 13.9 lbs; the day she freshened, 14.2 
lbs. besides what her calf took; three days 
later, 33.1 lbs. Within a week after freshening 
both cows had passed 40 lbs. and were steadily 
gaining, and they have every appearance of 
being able to go on and produce well for 
another lactation period. 
This experience may be exceptional. Others 
may have had -opposite results. In fact we 
were warned against making a year record 
'with cows and having them freshen within 
the same year. From our limited experience 
with these two cows, however, there seems to 
be nothing to be alarmed about. Later I will 
tell something of how these cows have been 
eared for. 
Editor’s Note —What about it? What is 
your experience? 
“Back-to-the-Landers” and 
Land Sharks 
(Continued from page 387) 
road. He did not see with appraising eye 
the weather-beaten, abandoned farmsteads 
nor the rocky outcrop through the thin and 
slaty soil. He saw only the far reaching bil¬ 
lowy landscape and most of all he confessed he 
saw the little lake so near his door flashing and 
sparkling in the sunshine. They offered him 
the farm of 145 acres together with a few 
broken down and wornout implements, an old 
wagon or two and four or five decrepit “band- 
box” cows for $2,800. It seemed too good to 
be true. He promptly paid down $1,400, 
practically all his savings and also gave a 
mortgage for $1,400 on which he promised to 
pay $200 each year. Since then he has man¬ 
aged to make one payment of $200, and has 
BABCOCK also made a few repairs 
to the house and has 
bought two or three more poor cows giving in 
payment his note for $125. At last he is 
disillusioned and at the end of his rope. His 
only hope now is to save some part of what he j 
has paid and as a drowning man clutches at 
a straw, so in his distress he turns to the Land 
Bank for aid and it cannot help him. 
I am sorry for him—sorry beyond measure. ; 
He is an honest gentleman — straightforward, 
intelligent and absolutely free from bluff, but 
his experience is for him well nigh a tragedy. 
Of course he is a carpenter still and has his 
tools but he must begin once more at the bot¬ 
tom and in industrial life it is not so easy to 
establish new connections when you are past 
the half century mark. 
I could set down other true stories of the 
land shark and his victim — the “ back-to-the- 
lander.” There are a number of *real estate 
agencies operating here in the East and the 
most notable of them all has hundreds or for 
all I know thousands of agencies. Some 
of these agencies do a legitimate business and 
are run by reputable men but many of these 
men are past masters in the art of selling farms 
and their one business is to make a sale. Be- 
yond'that they have no responsibility and no ( 
conscience. In the main they prey on the 
ignorant foreigner and on the scarcely less 
helpless native. Once in Binghamton a chauf¬ 
feur told me how he had been employed to 
drive a salesman and his prospect out to view 
a farm. He had previously been assured that 
this was planned for a quick run and that he 
was not expected to sleep at the wheel. As 
they climbed into the car, the agent remarked 
pleasantly: “Please note that the farm I am 
going to show you is only about half an hour j 
from the heart of the city.” Later on as the 
powerful,car with wide open throttle bounded { 
and swerved and tore up the rough hill road, 1 
the salesman leaned forward from the rear j 
seat and hissed into the driver’s ear: “Shoot 
her along—shoot her along!’ 
There are agents whose creed of salesman- ( 
ship is this. Make a sale any way and get just 
as large a cash payment as can possibly be I 
extracted. Then write a contract to pay the 
remainder in fixed sums so large and at inter¬ 
vals so frequent that there shall be no possi¬ 
bility of fulfillment. Very recently I read an 
agreement where the purchaser had agreed to 
pay $50.00 on the tenth day of each month. 
So far as. the income from this farm is concerned 
he might just as well have agreed to pay the 
interest on the National Debt as it came due. 
Fairness leads me to add that in this parti¬ 
cular case the seller had been merciful and 
made no effort to literally enforce the terms. 
Last week I read a contract which a buyer 
had signed and the final clause was this (I 
quote it exactly): “And it is further provided 
that in case any payment of principal or interest j 
shall remain due and unpaid the party of the j 
second part shall be deemed a tenant who has 
stayed beyond his term and the party of the first j 
part shall be entitled to enter upon said premises \ 
and possess them/ in accordance with the law of 
the relations between landlord and tenant!' 
The other day I talked with a professor in 
our College of Agriculture — a man ordinarily 
of reserved and kindly and gentle speech — who 
said with fervor, directness and sincerity that 
he hoped — he hoped—that in that place of lost 
souls of which the preachers speak, there might 
be some little corner kept especially hot and 
reserved for the perpetual accommodation of 
those land sharks who prey on the confidence 
and ignorance and gullibility of the helpless j 
souls who fall into their clutches. 
I am very fond of advising country-bred j 
people to remain in the country where they 
were born but I am exceedingly loath to advise 
city bred folks of slender means to seek any 
hazard of new fortunes on the land. If a man 
has some money beyond what he really needs 
and feels that he wants to amuse himself by 
playing at gentleman farming — why, that is 
another matter. I feel that ordinarily he is 
rather foolish but after all if he burns his 
fingers a bit no one really suffers. But when 
I find the city bred man with savings of a thou¬ 
sand or two dollars dead anxious to burn his 
bridges behind him and become a farmer I want 
to beg him to do as we are exhorted by the 
signs at some railroad crossings — “Stop, look, 
listen.” If he asks my advice I usually give 
him the same frank, brief counsel that Josh 
Billings gave concerning matrimony— 
“DON’T.” 
I am a subscriber since about 1863 and have 
gotten it ever since. Have paid up to 1925. 
Would not be without. Every farmer should 
be a subscriber. — Z. Weberbach, Coopers- 
burg, Pa. 
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