IIOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
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Selecting Cows for Efficiency
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E want n cow that will tako our becnuso ho would not take tlmo to
feed nnd convert It Into tho And out. That young man mado tho
most nroflt, becauso It wo nro worst nilstako of hia life, ho didn't
nuttim? In a part of our lives fccdlnK liavo tlmo to know his hiiRlnoas.
i,cows and milking thorn, tho valuo of Tho worst of It Is, ho will hnvo to
that part ot our mo is tlotormlned oy tako tlmo to niako up for what ho
' tho amount ot profit that wo got out did not know. Ho must tako caro of
of thoso cows. Thoro la no question them for another year, and then have
about this, Tho man who makes tho only tho snmo as his neighbor had fn
chlof end of life getting dollars makes ono year. Ho put In two years to
a big mlstnko. accomplish what his neighbor ac-
But whon ho sots out to niako a comnllshed In ono voar. Wo cannot
success of his business for tho pur- afford to be so. busy that wo cannot
poso of accumulating something that tako tlmo to know our business,
ho may provide hlmsolf nnd family Valuo of ihrnnl
with tho comforts ot life, educato his In nnn ",, qn"tlllfc,MI1
children and provldo ngnlnst old ngo, ,In ono tho Southern Michigan
ho owes It to himself to got just ns Jowna l mot two 'ns men and
largo profits as possible. Wo want talked saino thing to them 10 years
our cows to tako their food and con- ngo. Wo went into tho dotallu of this
vort it Into tho biggest posslblo proposition and they started to prnc
amount of dairy products. tlco It. I was thoro two years ago,
How aro wo to know7 Shall wo and theso young men woro thoro with
BOloct a spotted cow, or somo other ft record of cost and how much each
color? No. Color makes no dlf- cow had paid for feed,
ferenco. It Is tho cow that will tako Tho records Bhowed tho first year
her feed nnd convert It Into tho most thoy got an nvorngo ot 184 pounds
product. How nro wo to know? of gutter per cow. Somo went abovo
Shall sho hnvo sloping shoulders, 200 and somo only abovo 100. They
largo udder, good milk veins nnd all sold off tho cows that did not pay nnd
that? Yes. But I want to know got bolter cows. Thoy studied how
something moro about her. to feed and caro for thorn, and when
Tho cow Is a plcco of tnnchtnory to you begin to figure on this you will
tako our food and convert it into a look at tho llttlo things that go to
product. Wo havo learned that thero mnko buccoss. Their average-was 18-1
Is something about tho conformation pounds of butter,
of that machlno that Indicates Us After eight years of that sort ot
tempornment. But outwnrd con- work, what was their avorngo? Thrco
formation may bo right nnd somo- hundred nnd sovcnty-slx pounds of
thing wrong with tho Inner works, butter por cow. Thoy Btartod with
Occasionally wo find that somo of 184 pounds nnd worked up to 37G.
theso cows hnvo tho right conforma- How much moro profit was thero In
Hon, nnd not tho ublllty. Go a lit- ono year to thoso mon getting 370
tlo farther. pounds than when getting 184? Thoy
It's llko the horse. When tho man aro making more clear raonoy In ono
was looking for tho fastest horse, ho year with 37C pounds than thoy mado
picked out Dnn Patch becauso ho was In 10 years when getting 184 pounds.
built right. How fast could ho go Consequently by knowing their busl-
waa asked. You could not toll, but ncsa thoy had multiplied thnt part ot
thero Is ono way you can toll. Got their llfo by 10.
up behind that horso nnd drlvo It. No Investment a man can mako
That's common ordinary horso sonso. pays him so well ns to know his
Apply tho same horso senso to this business, nnd bo nblo to multiply tho
proposition ot tho dairy cow. valuo of his tlmo by 10. Thnt cow
Keoiiliiu Tnli. l,lftt nnya J'0'1 tno nloat 'or n Jo,,ar's
t.. i. mniinr nf nrmiiiPiinii Whon worth of feed, and nt tho end ot tho
In tho matter of production, wiion fc , mMt m ,a tho
you rccu Hint cow. Know wnai mob -qw Umt ,t ,myfl yo l0 ,00P( nnd
paying you for It. Tho common prill- you cannot afford to kcop tho poor
nary uiuijiuui. wn uu .... w. ....,
you don't need n bookkocper, that Is
nil nonsense
I-novor hnd n bookkeeper and novcr
Bpont auch a great lot of tlmo with n
pencil. Whnt tlmo I havo spent has
paid mo best In tho dairy proposition.
Onco In 10 dnys weigh tho milk,
morning and night. Multiply uy iu
When Luxuries Become
Necessities
FIFTEEN years ago llio man who owned an nutomobile-was looked
upon as a mnn of great wealth nnd the mnchino as a luxury
far beyond the reach of tho nvorngo mortal. Hut today tho
automobile lias become a farm necessity. A scoro of years ago tele
phonos in farm houses wcro almost unheard of and wcro moro for
amusement than for service. Piano players, phonographs, kodaks,
motorcycles, electric light, water utulor pressure, gas ranges nnd many
othor articles that go to provide household c6mforls of today, were,
only a few years ago, unavailable for farm use, or if they woro ob
tainable, thoy wcro for tho luxury-loving fow who would afford ilicm.
But needs aro often felt before they aro expressed, nnd needs in
tho farm homo aro no greater than in the city homo. Farmers must
proyido for their own homos. In Iho cities many of tho comforts nro
nyailablo for tho asking. Hut thero is no luxury or comfort of tho
city that is not available today for the rural home, and in most cases
. at a lower cost than is paid for tho same comfort in tho city.
Tho first cost of any convenience is, of course, much greater for
tho farm home, ns it is ncccssnry to install tho plant nnd then opcrnto
it. Electric lighting systems, for example, rcquiro tho purchaso and
installation of tho machine for generating the electricity; storage bat
teries for tho accumulation of reserve power nnd nn engine for op
crating tho plant. This costs money, but tho opernting cost, plus tho
interest on tho investment, is lower than tho cost for tho samo amount
of power supplied by largo plants in most cities.
It is no longor tho height of folly for farmers lo think of mnking
uso of somo of tho ninny doviccs which go to mnko tho homo mora
comfortable. In fact, tho situation is tho other way around, nnd it
is only tho shiftless man who docs not caro to give somo consideration
lo modorn npplinnccs for lessening tho labor and increasing tho com
fort of tho home.
Every clcvico which goes lo supply convenience in tho farm home
and mnko itcven moro comforlablo than a city flat, is to bo obtained
from ndvortisors in farm papors. Not every issuo has all theso nd
vprtisors represented, but if any reader wants nny modorn appliance,
from nn olectrio light plant, sanitary closet or septic tank, to a water
pressure systom or rofrigcrating plant, lot him writo tho Editor, Orc-gon-Waslunglon-Idnho
Fanner. Tho luxuries of yesterday aro the ne
cessities of today and thero is no use in trying to think otherwise.
ones. N. P. Hull.
If
You Havo Any News,
Get It to the Editor
Ml T Is not enough for n llvo com-
I munlty thnt advertising should
lin rorrnr.tlv impel to atlmulatn bust-
nnd wo know near enough how much ncBS nmj to Iiromot0 Boneral prosper-
that cow is giving in limit. ,ty Tll0 i,omo n0wBpapor is a social
farVhe "an W TnSA. S nnd Intellectual thing as well as a
least thrco times a year, and bettor modlum of business. Ono cannot
yet onco a month, to find out how servo tho community better than by
much fat la In tho milk bo you may soolng that Interesting Itoms got to
know tho valuo of It. Then you mtiat tho editor. Tho editor Is no mind
know nbout tho feed. It don t tnko rCudcr; cnn i,m up nntl iQn llta To
much time. ,,.,,, w Ib (1 bo ,s tl10 neighborly thing, tho
I go in ' n tho imv Md klnd,y '"B courtesy not to tho
being od and pick : up tho ay and puW8ll0 ,ono bllt t OVOryono In
weigh it. From that to nnollior ono u dWrlct wnQ , h bQ , ( . d
nnd ,80 on. I know tho valuo of ,n ulo u
that per ton, and It only takes ino a whonovor Bro w, A h d of
short tlmo to know tho value. Will tho dopBrtmont of iQllrnaUJm at tho
tho man feed Jlio anmoT I don it UnIvcrslty ot Oregon, apeaka In a
know. Ho may feed n llttlo moro ( ho th ,
?r W'.U wtl corn Btovor hlnd t,,olr hon, " ,u bot bU8''
I will do tho unino with corn stovor nm nnd R n0 wa on fa nd
and tho cnsllago. 1- or tho grain I t,mt tho M0W8pn,,cr cnn bo lna(lo
uso a small mensuro nn know ho v wondorful nBOncy for uulldlnB up a
much that will hold nnd what it communlty IJy a ..BUCCCMfuh1 com.
wolBhs. O.vor each w munlty," Mr. Allon moana not merely
2. 3. 4, G and C, that shows bow many th communty whosQ bu8,nc88 mo
TVhVm! m'lo eed aro VTOBpoTlne, and whoso laborcro
what It la costing mo to feed. nro a at work but Uj0 communIty
Does It Pay? that la a real social and intellectual
Tho question tho tnon nlways ask, contor. Ho looks to tho homo paper
"Doos it pay?" Two young mon In na tho most powerful mcana within
my county woro dairying, ono on ono reach ot bringing about this kind ot
eldo of tho roacrj tho othor on tho "success."
othor aldo. Thoy woro told not to go "If you cnn onco got nil your poo
It blind, but to know what thoy woro plo into tho way ot voluntarily pour
doing. It appoalod to ono young lng theso Interesting scraps of nows
roan. Ho bought a scalo nnd a tester Into tho wcokly paper, you will add
and paid $5 for tho two. Ho took immonsoly to tho genoral frlendllnoss
tlmo enough to weigh nnd test tho of tho community," says Mr. Allon.
milk. "You will bo holplng to mako your
At tho end of tho year ho know town tho kind of placo whoro peoplo
vory nearly what every cow waa do- want to stay and to which forraor
lng from hla record of feed nnd residents will want to corao back,
what thoy had paid in for it. Tho "So try to get Ideaa Into tho paper,
other man said It ho fed hla cowa It Writo n llttlo for It onco In a whllo.
waa all tho tlmo ho had. What was Don't lot tho editor do all tho thlnk
tho rcault? lng for tho town. If you publish
After throo years, ono goi a&u nieas, you siari oinora to miniting, ZZZZZZZZZIZ
pounds ot buttor por cow, nnd tho nnd you ralso by Just so much tho
othor got 200 por cow. Which got general levol of Intelligence. xmi-ir t-thf"vt
tho 250? It was the man who got "Encourago tho homo paper to bo i-l f J I hi. K A I IJIN
rid ot hla poor cowa. Tho othor ono a business, social and Intellectual cen- v-' -- -r- '
hnd tho samo chanco to do that work, tor ot tho community. It will richly w. pmu nnd Mor. si... Por uud. or.
but did not want to do it. Ono got repay."
2C0 pounds and tho othor 200 pounds. '
It required tho valuo ot tho first 1C0 In Kontucky thoy cultlvato tho nl
pounds ot buttor to feed thoso cows falfa Hold Just after cutting till "It
and tako caro ot thorn, looks llko a cornfield prepared for
Tho result, ono man had 100 planting." Thoy uso either a spring
pounds ot buttor profit, and tho toothed harrow or a doublo disc cultl
other one only had 50 pounds profit vator.
Double the Wheat and Oat Crops
Money must be made by belter farming; it is
common sense to sco grain drilled only 3 inches
apart, not G inches or 7 inches between rows
means much better seed distribution, bettor sur
face covering with crop, less wasted land, bettor
saving of moisture, crowding out the weeds and
many other advantages; ono maker of 3-inch
drills guarantees 25 or better increase or no
pay for tho machines. Fctzcr & Co., of Spring
field, 111., claim in a dry year the yield has been
increased four times more per acre, besides mak
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wheat was dried out with 7-inch rows. Writo
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