Dairy Age from Beloit, Kansas • 5

5 THE DAIRY AGE, Many farmers are considerably an noyed by the appearance of warts on he cows, calves and colts. Hoard's A good cow is worthy the admiration of any man. The man who will not 'learn is the fellow who is sure to fail in the dairy business. Dairyman oilers the following as an efficacious Sandpaper the New York i wart until it bleeds slightly. Then powder blue vitriol and mix with vase- ine to a thick paste and rub on the wart.

Do not think that because the milk business is a good thing it will pay Strive to know how the calf and cow can be fed cheaply and with the greatest profit. A good way to assure a a full dinner pail in Kansas is to have a full milk F. Jensen. The farmer of the future will have learn' to use books in his business, just as does the doctor or lawyer. you to divide your attention between wenty cows and give each only three- Time is Money fourths of the feed or attention she should have.

Ten cows with all the good care they need will be more pro fitable than the twenty handled in a slipshod manner. A gallon of milk weighs 8. 6 pounds, and a gallon of cream containing 25 per cent fat weighs 8.4 pounds. And worth saving. If it's New York you want to reach, here's how to save many valuable hours.

The quickest train to New York is Wabash "Fast Mail," Kansas City 6.15 p. New York 7.30 second morning. Trains from this city make direct connection in Kansas City Union Depot with i Wabash "Fast Mail." I Wabash Fast Mail No where on earth does ignorance of what is true play a more import ant part in reducing the prosperityof The old cow, if she is to be highly profitable, should be allowed to have very much her own way on the farm. men than in the dairy, says Hoard's Dairyman. Farmers stubbornly hold to false notions about cows and how to handle' them and so receive less than the cost of their feed from them.

The farm or hand separator is by Leaves Kansas Wabash 6.15 'A Arrives Detroit Wabash 11.35 Arrives Niagara Wabash 6.55 evening. 35 Arrives Buffalo Wabash 7.50 evening. $3 Arrives New York D. h. 7.30 second morning.

ifi Arrives Boston N. Y. Cent, and B. 1.. 10.34 second morning.

We can give quicker and better service to almost any eastern city or town than any other line run- ning east from Kansas City. Tell us where you Si want to go. We will point out your best time and connections, tell you all about the service, quote pj you rates which you will find to be the lowest. Practical, good sense must govern the dairy farmer at every turn. He cannot succeed unless he has the ability to form correct judgement.

Perseverence and intelligence are the only two things that will win in the dairy. Without these you had better get out of the business. no means a toy but is a very practical machine and one of the standard makes with good care will last a life time, If one is from any cause compelled to practice the old method of hand skim It N. GADLAND, ft C. SHIELDS, Western Passenger Agent, Traveling Passenger Agent 'M KANSAS' CITY.

ming a separator will pay a large in Though feed be high you cannot afford to cut down the ration of the terest on the money invested by the in creased amount of butter fat recovered. dairy cow. Feed her well today and she will pay you back with interest The longer we are in any way con tomorrow. f1 i il ttJStml nected with the great dairy interests 1.... the more we are impressed with the A New York paper reports that the fact that the farmer cannot afford under any consideration to be without highest test received at North Litchfield skimming station is that of five per cent from a herd of high grade knows what he can do.

The farmer will be compelled within a few years to get his business on the same basis. the Babcock test and a pair of spring balances. These two things afford us Holstein cows owned by James E. the only means" of determining the Hasselkuse. The farmer must learn the value of skim milk.

It is necessarily one of the products of the dairy farm, and economy will not permit its waste. No farmer can afford to throw away a pound of skim milk any more than he can a pound of oats. We must learn how to feed it to make it most value of our cows for dairy purposes. Give the calf an opportunity to eat The average farmer has no business grain and hay and at the end of ten with a herd of highly bred and heavy days or two weeks he will be eating producing dairy cows. Let him begin at the bottom of the ladder with the grading up system and while the herd enough to take the-place of that twenty cent fat he is eating in the whole milk.

It takes very little more feed and time, to feed a skim milk calf that will gain two pounds per day than it does is undergoing the change from beef to milk his education will also undergo the change which is absolutely necess George Leighton is a farmer who patronizes the 'Lake Preston, S. D. creamery witfr an average of ten cows. From his herd in eleven months he received $525.40 for butter fat, which was an average of $48 per month or $52.54 per cow. What do you think of that for an income from the cheap feed of the north? ary in the handling of large producing to feed it so that it will become a runt, but it does take thinking, patience and cows.

careful attention to the little things. Writing of conditions on the Kansas agricultural college farm this season, J. G. Haney says, "the old alfalfa fields have more than gratified us this year, although the yield has been lighter than usual. All have been cut four times, and part five times, and it is in much better shape than usual at this time of the year.

The trial of disking the alfalfa has given splendid satisfaction. Besides disking the alfalfa thoroughly early in the spring, we disked after each cutting, when the ground was dry, setting the disk so as to cut well but not tear the roots too much, then harrowing cross-wise of the disking. This left a good surface mulch, besides destroying much of the grass which usually starts immediately after cutting the alfalfa. We can recommend disking much more strongly than we could before this summer. The disk harrow will do more to make alfalfa a success after once started than any other It is the the only remedy and prevention for crab grass, foxtail, grasshoppers and army or cut worms.

A small field of soy beans grown on the Kansas agricultural college farm Do not fail to give the calf the fresh it. JJ i i this year yielded 35 bushels per acre. waucr uesires. me DaDy calf gets two drinks of milk a day is no reason why it should not have The cause of the large yield is said to be due to the fact that the ground had been set to alfalfa which was plowed water. Milk does not take the place of water in the animal existence.

up the spring before the beans were planted. This is a hint as to the fer tilizing value of alfalfa. Young men who know how to feed and milk a cow as she should be, in order to secure maximum production Reduce the cost of producing your butter fat'by reducing the cost of de at minimum cost, are in greater de mand and at better wages, than teach ers in the public school room. The'cheapest and fastest way to get Dairy knowledge is what we must have. It matters little how we get that knowledge but we must have it from some source.

Books, papers and schools come to our aid and so does experience, that sometimes cruel teacher. Some men are so created that only experience can teach them. But she is a dear teacher. We prefer to learn from the experience of others as we get it from the public press. The dairy business has come to Kansas to stay.

The' time is ripe when every farmer should begin to collect -on his farm a little herd of dairy cattle that will in future years furnish the nucleus for a larger and more pretentious herd. The farmer of fifty yea'rs hence cannot get away from the dairy any- more than the New York man can ot this time. The time will come when we will milk cows irom necessity rather than from choice. livery to the factory. That can be done by hauling in turn with the neighbors instead of hiring the milk hauled, or the same result can be accomplished by securing a gentle horse and an old spring wagon and the children allowed to make the trip to the creamery.

Another way is to into the dairy business right is to be gin grading up with a good bull some of the dairy breeds. This is the plan for the man of moderate means and is the one that will insure him the produce three or four times as much greatest success if he is not a skilled milk and decrease the cost per pound dairyman. for delivery. We must learn to pro duce this butter fat at the lowest cost The editor has never known the time' when milch cows of superior qual A farmer recently complained- tha ities were so much in demand as at pres he could not grow soy beans for the ent. We know where there is immedi Whether a farmer who is engaged in dairying, either as a principal line or as a side issue, shall keep dairy bred cows and use a-dairy bred bull upon them, or whether he shall keep general purpose cows and use a bull of one of the beef breeds is a question for each person interested to figure out.

The decision will depend upon the correct answer, under the circumstances of each individual, to the following question: Is the profit that the dairy cow will make, as compared with that made by the general purpose cow in excess of that which the beef steer will return as compared with the dairy steer? It has been urged that half the people in the United States who rely wholly or in part upon the dairy, are milking cows that return no profit over and above the care and keep. Mr. J. H. Monrad, the well known dairy specialist, declares that he is convinced that the keeping of a record of each cqw's yield is the very foundation of successful dairy farming.

There is lots of truth in it, too, for time and again we have known instances where dairymen have tested their cows and found that those which they had been in the habit of "guessing oft'" as the most profitable in their herds, really return little or no profit at all. ate sale for fifty cows to two farmers reason that the rabbits ate all he plant ed. He gave the bean only one tria who will pay the cash for them. If you have cows for sale, advertise them and then planted one quart of seed What folly! Try a bushel and may in this paper. be the rabbits will not be equal to the task of eating three acres.

But one The Pennsylvania experiment sta failure should not cause the farmer to tion has discovered that the rye mea as a part of a properly balanced ra The editor knows a man who is making a specialty of the fat hog business who pays the neighboring creamery seven cents a gallon for the buttermilk for feeding purposes and the supply runs up to a good many barrels per day. This man thinks he cannot get along without the milk for his hogs, and says that it with the alfalfa pasture, soy beans, makes him one cent pork. This man has figured his business to a nicety and consider subsequent efforts in vain The farmer does not go out of the wheat business because of two failures tion for milk cows is as efficient in milk and butter production as an equal weight of corn meal. No injur in five years. He keeps everlastingly at it.

Try the same plan with the soy ious effect upon the quality of the but ter was noticed. beans and see if they do not pay..