. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. July. 2, 1904 J ©Jtte giveeitev cmo gtpovtemcm 11 THE FARM. Keep a Dairy Record. Not one dairyman in ten, I believe, keeps any sort of dairy record or knows except by guess which are the best and which are the poorest cows iD the herd; which pay a profit and which do not pro- duce enough milk to pay the feed bill. There are men who keep cows (not by any means dairymen), who cannot feed properly, or in any part of their cow keeping do anything properly. Advice of any sort would do these "cow- keepers" no good. They are lost in in- iquity, but to the da
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. July. 2, 1904 J ©Jtte giveeitev cmo gtpovtemcm 11 THE FARM. Keep a Dairy Record. Not one dairyman in ten, I believe, keeps any sort of dairy record or knows except by guess which are the best and which are the poorest cows iD the herd; which pay a profit and which do not pro- duce enough milk to pay the feed bill. There are men who keep cows (not by any means dairymen), who cannot feed properly, or in any part of their cow keeping do anything properly. Advice of any sort would do these "cow- keepers" no good. They are lost in in- iquity, but to the dairymen who expect their cows to keep them, who feed well and carefully, who figure closely the ex- penses and income of dairying, and who, indeed, make a profit on their wel1 di- rected labor, I want to urge just the little more care and figuring necessary 10 a dairy record, believing it will pay them better for thesr labor than any other work they ever did in connection with their farming operations. Where is the man who can guess with any degree of accuracy which is the best cow in his herd? Let him take into his stable for a year a milk scale and a Bab cock tester, and it is more than likely he will find a half dozen cows that are bringing him in more profit than that "old fill pail" who has always been the apple of his eye. Either her milk is low in test or she dries up too soon, making the yearly average less than some of the more plodding performers who keep on all the year around, giving a fair mess of reasonable rich milk. And then the pleasure 0 knowing all about your cows. Would't it be less of drudgery when you are milking your string of cows to-morrow morniDg to know that the firBt one in the line produced last year over 300 pounds of butter, and the next one is not giving much of a mess now, but the record shows that she has already brought in $75, and it is about time she went dry And here's Besf. She's doing fine for a heifer, and then Star. You have g
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