26,1924 
m 
, Holsteins dom- N 
r inate in the dairy field' 
for many reasons. They 
provide reliable profitsfor 
practical farmers. 
Healthy calves, growthy 
heifers, profitable 
herds, easily kept. Note! 
their numbers in pros¬ 
perous dairy regions. 
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.'Extension Service 
HOLSTEINI^FRIESIAN 
Association of America 
.230 EAST OHIO STREET.CHICAGO.IU.. i — ■ ■ ■— S 
CATTLE 
GU ER N S EYS 
Broadacres Stock Farm 
DISPERSAL SALE 
Kokomo, Indiana 
Saturday, May 10th, 1924 
Senior sire, Butterfly’s Coronation of Crane Farm 
No. 69542, 24 cows in milk. Several A. R. Six on test. 
20 heifers and heifer calves. 
A real opportunity to get a sound healthy foundation. 
Bankable paper accepted if arrangements are made in 
advance. 
Farm is 3 miles from Kokomo, a car will drive buyers to 
[arm. Kokomo is 52 miles North of Indianapolis. 
For further information and catalogues write E. A. 
Nelker, Kokomo, Indiana, or Louis McL, Merryman, 
Sparks, Maryland. 
We wish to revise our mailing list and will only mall 
catalogues to those who write. 
$10 Down Buys 
HOLSTEIN BULL 
We offer for sale several wonderfully bred 
registered Holstein bull calves on the in¬ 
stallment plan. Prices from $50 to $ 100 . 
This is your opportunity to get a pure 
bred bull. 
Write for particulars 
HENRY MORGENTHAU, Jr. 
Fishkill Farms 
Hopewell Junction, New York 
GRADE HOLSTEINS 
AND GUERNSEYS 
For Sale 
30 head ready to freshen, 100 head due to 
freshen during March, April and May. All 
large, young, fine individuals that are heavy 
producers. Price right. Will tuberculin test. 
A. F. SAUNDERS, Cortland, N.Y. 
LI fA f Q T E* T 1\T C Extra fine lot registered 
1 1L/ Li ij J. JL_I IlT O cows fresh or soon due. 
10 registered heifers soon due. 20 registered heifers 
ready to breed. 4 high record service bulls. 
J. A. LEACH CORTLAND, N. Y. 
Oh HIGH GRADE HOLSTEIN HEIFERS, 3 years 
vv old, In pink of condition, to freshen before May 1st. 
Some have calves by their side now. The best lot of 
Heifers to be found In Cortland County. 
Fred. J. Saunders, 23 Evergreen St., Cortland, N. Y. 
SWINE 
PIGS FOR SALE 
75 Chester and Yorkshire Cross and Berk¬ 
shire and Chester Cross, 6 to 7 weeks old, 
$5 each; 8 to 9 weeks old, $5.50 each. These 
are all large, healthy pigs bred from large 
hogs. Will ship any amount C. O. D. on 
your approval. 
Michael lux, 9 Lynn st., woburn, mass. 
FEEDING PIGS 
6 Weeks old, $5.50 each. 8 Weeks old, $6.00 each. 
These pigs are the first cross between Yorkshire and 
Berkshire Large Type Swine. All healthy and fast 
growing pigs. Sows or Barrows. 
Also Purebred Yorkshire or Berkshire Pigs, 6 to 8 
weeks old, $8.00 each. Can furnish sow and unrelated 
boar pigs. All pigs C. O. D. 
Dr. P. F. WALLINGFORD, M. D. 
on a proval. 
V., Box 51, Waltham, Mass. 
DUCKS 
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“As the Twig is Bent” 
How They Feed and, Raise Their Dairy Calves 
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large BERKSHIRES at highwood 
breedlDg - L |ox 3 10 erd * AmCriC DUN'0EE b , O ° W k . 1 Y : 
Registered O. I. C. and Chester White pigs, bred sows 
Silts and service boars. Eugene P. Rogers, Way vllle, N.Y. 
Ohio Improved Chesters A^enban 
Swine.’ PINECREST FARMS, Pine Valley, N. Y * 
DUCKLINGS 
T'lFFANY’S SUPERIOR 
1 Mammoth Pekin ) 
Giant Rouen \ DUCKLINGS 
Indian Runner J 
M.DHAM POULTRY FARM, R. 33, Phoenixvllle, Pa. 
AY-OLD Pekins of giant frame for rapid 
k...,,. growth. Indian Runners of best 
DUCKLINGS laying strain. Catalog free. 
WAYNE CO. DUCK FARM, CLYDE, N. Y. 
! R K E I G N DUCKLINGS 
EGGS AND DRAKES 
Price List Free 
Roy Pardee, Islip, N.Y. 
A S the twig is bent so shall the tree 
grow. How many times have you 
heard this old saying? This same adage 
may be applied to dairy cattle. As the 
calf is cared for so shall the cow produce. 
It is of little use to breed purebred 
calves from high producing dams and 
high record sires, unless they are given 
every advantage for growth. A healthy, 
steady growing, and well-bred calf should 
make a good producing cow. And it is 
the good producers that are making the 
money for the farmer. The star boarders 
are the debt contractors. 
There are a few essentials in all good 
calf raising. Conditions must be sanitary, 
great care should be used in feeding, 
regularity at all times, exercise as much 
as possible. Much could be said on any 
one of these subjects but at the present 
time we will only treat on the feeding of 
the calf. 
Methods of a Breeder of Jerseys 
e 
On a large farm in Pennsylvania where 
Jersey cattle are raised, the following 
method is used which is a good one: 
The calf is not allowed to suck the 
mother but is taken from her at once. 
However, it is fed its mother’s milk, 
about six pounds of this colostrom first 
milk a day. After the fourth or fifth 
day whole milk is used, adding about 
one-fifth as much skim-milk at the same 
temperature. It is fed three times a day 
for the first three weeks, about seven or 
eight pounds to a feed. The skim-milk is 
increased gradually until at about the 
end of one and one-half months, when 
skim-milk is fed altogether. From one 
month on, a grain mixture of 1 part bran, 
3 parts commeal, 2 parts middlings, and 
1 part oil meal is kept before them at all 
times. Roughage is also available for 
them at all times. However, they do not 
feed them alfalfa nor silage while they 
are being fed milk. Neither do they put 
them on grass while feeding milk. They 
are never fed in troughs but separately in 
pails which are thoroughly sterilized. 
They exercise them daily, give them all 
the water they will drink, and plenty of 
fresh air. 
Leaves Calf with Mother 2 Days 
Another way of feeding which is prac¬ 
ticed on a large Ayrshire farm is to allow 
the calf to suck the mother for only two 
days. Then they teach it to drink. It is 
then fed six or seven pounds of whole 
milk, preferably the mother’s, for a week 
or ten days. After that any cow’s milk 
for about sixty days. The latter part of 
the sixty days skim-milk is gradually 
substituted until it is used altogether. 
Skim-milk powder is used to make the 
skim-milk. Hay is kept before them at 
all times, also a little grain. After they 
get to eating grain they feed them all they 
will clean up in a reasonable length of 
time of the following: 2 parts cornmeal, 
1 part ground oats, 1 part bran, 1 part 
oil meal. When they are old enough they 
feed a grain ration containing equal parts 
cornmeal, bran, ground oats and one- 
half part oil meal. 
A method practiced by a breeder of 
Guernseys is to take the calf immediately 
away from the mother unless it is some¬ 
what weak and small. Then it is allowed 
to suck for three or four days. The calf 
is fed on whole milk three times a day 
for three months, about 5 pounds to a 
feeding. Starting gradually skim-milk 
is fed from then on. Also a grain ration 
of the following: 3 parts bran, 2 parts 
cornmeal, 4 parts ground oats and 1 part 
oil meal. Roughage is kept before them 
at all times and plenty of exercise is given 
them throughout. 
I have reviewed methods in use on 
Jersey, Guernsey, and Ayrshire stock 
farms and now we come to the Holstein. 
A system practiced by a known breeder 
in Pennsylvania has been accepted as a 
good one. He allows the calf to suck 
until milk is fit for use, which is about 
five days. The calf is left with mother 
in box stall and can feed whenever 
hungry. After taken from the mother 
whole milk is fed, about five pounds 
twice a day, for the first few days. By the 
time it is about two weeks old the amount 
has been gradually increased until it is 
(Continued on page 4%6) 
Plans For Fighting T B 
(Continued from page 4-17) 
No plan of tuberculosis eradication will 
ever work where the cattle owner is not 
willing to exercise external vigilance. 
Like a rotten potato, which affects the 
whole bin, one cow in a dairy will soon 
give the disease to many of the others. 
Hence the requirement by the authorities 
to separate the sick from the well. Yet 
on most farms, this is impracticable and 
often impossible. 
The area plan, either by community, 
town or county, has many advantages. 
It is fine to look upon a community or a 
town and be able to say “here is one 
place in this State where there is no 
tuberculosis.” 
,The Problem in “Area Plan” 
But can we ever say that? Supposing 
the State or the county spends great sums 
to clean up a town, can it ever get coopera¬ 
tion' enough from all of the farmers in 
that community to stay clean? Out of 
ten men who are obliged to apply the 
test to their herds in any community, 
there will always be two or three who 
will do so unwillingly and who therefore 
will make little effort to cooperate to get 
the herds clean in the first place, and 
especially to keep them clean after the 
tests are made and the infected animals 
are disposed of. About the only thing 
that will ever make such men clean up is 
an ordinance by the health authorities 
forbidding the sale of milk or other 
dairy products from dairies where T B is 
present. As we stated in our first article, 
the time is surely coming when such 
ordinances will be general. 
On the other hand, a cattle owner may 
live outside of the community, town or 
county where area work is being carried 
on and have a sincere desire to clean up 
his herd. It should be possible for such 
a man to do so, for he is just the one 
to cooperate to the fullest extent in 
making the cleaning up and in taking 
every precaution to keep the herd clean 
afterwards. Such a man, too, has the 
right as a taxpayer to his share of State 
and county moneys appropriated for 
tuberculosis eradication. But it seems 
to us that not all of the money should be 
spent in area work so that some will remain 
to take care of the scattered owners of 
herds in sections where area work is not 
being or can not be done. On the whole, 
however, most rapid progress will prob¬ 
ably be made on the area plan. 
What Is Your Experience? 
These discussions will be continued in 
coming issues of American Agricul¬ 
turist. They are of vital importance to 
every dairyman in the country. Thou¬ 
sands of farmers have already had expe¬ 
rience with tuberculin testing for tuber¬ 
culosis control. There is not enough 
known among dairymen about the success 
or failures of the different plans used for 
eradication. 
If you have had experience, good, bad 
or indifferent, will you not put it into a 
brief letter that we may publish it and 
pass on the information for the benefit of 
other dairymen? Perhaps you live in a 
community, town or county that is 
cleaning up. Tell us about it. What 
part of the plan was successful and what 
failed? What would you change if it 
were to be done over again? Did you 
have any trouble that was anybody’s 
fault in getting proper appraisals of your 
cattle and in securing the indemnities? 
Write us your experience. 
Thousands of 
Reasons here for 
BAG BALM 
T HE structure of a cow’s udder and 
teats is made up of thousands of 
tiny cells and ducts. Each cell has its 
part to perform in contributing to a 
healthy, full milk-flow. 
Any injury not quickly and properly 
healed interferes with the “letting 
down” of the milk and may result in 
permanently congested tissues. 
The use of Bag Balm for injuries to 
udder or teats is a guarantee of quick 
and proper healing. It penetrates deep¬ 
ly, stimulates circulation, cleanses and 
protects the wound. Fine for cuts, 
chaps, bruises, scratches, inflamma¬ 
tion. A sure relief for Caked Bag and 
and valuable aid in treating Bunches 
and Cow Pox. 
Large 10-ounce package 60c, at feed deal¬ 
ers, general stores and druggists. Send for* 
free booklet, “Dairy Wrinkles." 
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If you want a good, substan¬ 
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Box 180, Norwich, N.Y. 
CRASC0 
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