THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 192a
Need for Improvement in Dairy Breeds to Increase Average Production
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MANY DAIRY COWS
ARE UNPROFITABLE
Thirty Per Cent of Dairy Cows
Do Not Pay for Feed; Average
production Is 160 Pounds Fat.
FINE CORRIEDALE RAM
. By ft. C. Stewart
More than 30 per cent of th so
called dairy cows in the United
States are slackers at the pall. They
pay neither for their feed nor care.
This includes the nmall aa well as
the large herds of the country.
Statistics ahowthat the average year
ly production per cow is 160 pounds
fat. Id some herds the average produc
tion runs as high as 500 pounds fat. This)
would Indicate that there is a big; field I
for improvement.
Tn starting: to improve a herd the
first matter to be considered is which is
the. paying and which the non-paying
cow. For many years the breeder relied
upon Individuality alone, culling: for
type and a few well established dairy
characteristics.
KICOItDH EASILY KEPT
Too often mintakns were made. A
Heemtngly perfect dairy type, giving a
good flow , when put to the churn test
would prove to be a non-profitable cow.
Since new ipethods of testing;, namely
the Bahcock test, Iiss been developed,
records proving- the worth of each In
dividual cow in the herd may be easily
kept.
The next, step in improvement is proper
culling out of the poor producers and the
breeding for higher production. This
requires careful study and close atten
tion to the production of each Individual
cow. In many instances it requires rec
ords covering at least, two years to
prove an animal non-profitable. Many
heifers ttiat do not prove to be profitable
in the. first year will later develop into
very profitable cows.
It pays to cull very closely, keeping
the doubtful canes on probation until
their merits have been carefully con
sidered for some time.
MAKE COWf PAT
From an economic standpoint the main
thing ts to be sure that every cow Is
paying not only for the expenses of the
feed hut for the care and interest on
the investment.
Careful breeding statistics show that
only 2 per cent of the cows in the Unit
ed States are bred to sires of known
ancestry, backed up by production rec
ords Sires of known quality are now
available everywhere.
The man with several cows Is able to
buy a carefully selected sire and the
man with but a few can readily get
itio a bull association, where, with the
help of his neighbors, he can purchase
the best blood available.
Another matter to be considered is
feeding for belter production. The labor
oosts are no higher in caring for high
producing cows and the returns are
mucn grearrr.
IXCR EASE PRODICTIOX
A" herd of 91 cows In one association
produced in 12 months a ttal income of
$-, over cost of feeding, or 84 cents
It cow. When the owner sends that
herd to the block he Is to be congratu
lated The country is not yet so short
of dairy products that anyone need milk
mich cows
It in a well know n fact that dairy cows
tn he profitable must be comparatively
lame producers. Yet few realize the
remarkable rate at which the income ad
vmices us the production Increases.
Tabulations of SRS7 cow testing asso
ciations' records of various parts of th
I'nited States, covering a period of four
vears. show that as the average butter
fat production Increased from 150 to 200
pounds the income over cost of feed ad
vanced from 121 to 34. That is a net
C;iin of 50 pounds or 3.1 1-3 per cent in
production gave an Increased Income of
per cent over feed cost.
The next gain of 50 pounds raised the
income over cost of feed to $TiO ; the net
to $63. the next to S74, the next to 87.
the next to $100. and the last to $118.
HEM. POOR COWS
As the butter fat production Increases
from 150 to 300 pounds the Income over
cost of feed advanced from $21 to $63..
As the production doubled the income
over cost of feed advanced three times.
When the butter fat production increased
iWM v
show in
VALUE OF SILAGE FOR
BEEF CATTLE BEYOND
DOUBT, SAYS WRITER
Field Animal Husbandman Makes
Interesting Investigation in
Union County.
By E. 1.
(Field Animal
This ram won first and special at Canterbury Metropolis
and sold for 300 guineas (about $Yj"5).
1919
from 150 pounds to 450 pounds that is.
trebled the Income over cost of feed
advanced from $21 to $100, or almost
five times as much.
It seldom pays to sell a good cow.
an It never pays to keep a poor one.
It pays to know what they are doing.
Here in the Northwest, where we have
Ideal feeds and cllmwtlc conditions, the
vital thing is careful selection of a breed
and proper care in breeding always for
production.
Answered
hy Dr JVC . iKove s.Vnw-aHc.
Question No. 1 I have a cow that is
running down in flesh very rapidly.
She eats well by rpella and then goes
one or two days without eating. She
was tested for tuberculosis about two
months ago and was all right. There
seems to be a doughy-like swelling be
tween her front legs.
Answer Your cow has probably taken
some foreign body, such as a nail or a
piece of wire into her rumen along with
her food. This foreign body has worked
through Into the heart. Treatment is
useless.
Question No. 2 Will you please tell
us what can be done with cows that are
barren : that Is we do not seem to get
with calf. I do not believe it Is the
fault of the bull, as all of the other
cows are due to freshen.
Answer The causes of barrenness or
sterility are many even when the bull
is eliminated as a factor. A too acid
condition of the vagina will cause this
condition. This can be corrected, by in
jections of some mfld alkaline solution.
Hardening and inflammations of the
os uteri constitute another cause.
Gauze soaked in glycerine placed against
the os tend to soften and correct this j
condition. Fus either in the os, body
of uteris, cornu or fallopian tubes will
prevent conception. To correct this the
pus has got to be removed. Some
times a dead foetus is present in I he
uteris or perhaps better called a mum
mified foetus. Infection severe enough
to close the lumen of the oviducts is
fatal as far aa conception Is concerned.
One diseased ovary will sometimes pre
vent the normal activity of the non
diseased ovary. Removal of this one
ovary will often result In a cure. t'yKtic
ovaries are generally a bar to concep
tion. Breaking these in some cases is
beneficial. In other cases It only In
tensifies the inflammation that is pres
ent. Diagnosis of the various condi
tions Is made by aid of special instru
ments and by examination of the
ovaries, womb and fallopian tubes per
rectum.
Question No. 8 What is the relation
between the dose of medicine for a man
and for a hdrse?
Answer According to Quitman's
veterinary Materia Medlca a horse
takes 16 times the dose of a man. How
ever it Is safer to figure about 12 times.
There is no fixed rule for such things.
Some animals and some people are very
susceptible to certain drugs and some
drugs work one way on one animal and
almost directly opposite on the next.
Lane Has Big Influx
Of Purebred Cattle
Eugene. Feb. 21. More pure-bred cat
tle have been brought into Iane county
this year than in all the five vears
past. The Bank of Commerce recently
brought to the county and sold to en
ergetic farmers 22 head of Holsteln
heifers, and this week G. A. McCart
of Harrisburg left for Omaha with a
commission in his pocket to buy 42
head of Holstelns and foui Guernseys.
The Oregon Agricultural college has
promised to sell 10 head out of the
300 that it will ship direct from the
island of Guernsey thin spring. The
Lane county fair directors announce
their cattle sheds this year will com
ply strictly with the sanitary pro
visions of the pure-bred stock associa
tions. There is a special awakening in
the dairy industry sinr the announce
ment of the coming of a new cream
ery anfl the actton of the lcw-al cream- I
ery company In increasing its stock and
preparing to Inntall the best of ma- i
chinery. Farmers everywhere are talk-!
ing pure-bred stock since the orgnnl
zation of the Lane County Pure-Fred
Stock association.
Field sted
Husbandman)
To state that a day with the live
stock men of Union county on a tour of
Inspection of silage feeding to beef
cattle Is worth while Is putting It mildly.
The following brief report of such a
day will convince the most skeptical
of the truth of the assertion.
The company, consisting of 30 interest
ed men. was conducted under the able
leadership of Floyd McKennon. There
were two main questions to be answered
by making this inspection trip. First,
to note the value of silage in beef pro
duction, and. second, to note if there
was any need for pure bred beef bulls
in Union county. Both of these ques
tions were answered plainly in the
affirmative. Every lot vinlted where si
lage was used in the feeding showed un
mistakable signs of doing well and that
the rattle were making economical gains.
Every party visited stated excellent re
sults from using silage and all were
enthusiastic boosters for this partic
ular typ of feed.
Practically all of the silage in use at
the present time in this county was
made from corn. Duncan McDonald,
however, who is using sunflower silage,
reported equal results with those ob
tlned in using corn silage. McDonald
also says he received as much tonnage
from two acres of sunflowers as he did
from six acres of corn.
! MKFS OAT SILAGE BEST
j W. .T. Townley la using oat silage in
j his feeding work and reports better re
j suits with this type of silage than any
i other type he has used. He has used
j practically every silage combination ex
cept sunflowers. He allows oats to
' ripen before cutting, then in addition, a
considerable, quantity of water Is used
during the filling operation. Townley
by Albert Hunter, as he U a horse man
and Interested particularly In beef cat
tle production. When the party reached
Hunter's, the latter was questioned as
to the location of his milking machine,
and showed them five or six of his
specially picked breed of hogs, a speci
men of which was shown at the last
Union county livestock show. Hunter
says these pigs were taking all the milk
from the cows, and the most deplorable
feature was that the majority of the
milkers belonged to a neighbor.
Summing up the trip, the following
persons were visited : Robert Smith, Al
bert Hunter. Duncan McDonald. Harry
Ruhle. George Gray, experiment station,
W. W. Green, W. E. Green. Charles
Green, Sherman & Hutchison, Lester
Hempe, W. Ji Townley, O. W. DeLay
and Andrew Blokland, The party in
spected 602 head of cattle that were
being fed on silage as the larger part
of their ration ; other than this the
payty Inspected the pure bred herds of
the prominent Shorthorn breeders near
and about Union. During the day a
distance of 82 miles was covered and
the party reached La Grande shortly
after dark. It was a unanimous vote
that the trip was entirely successful
and the two questions were answered,
the one being the need for more pure
bred bulls In the county to grade up tlie
feeder class of cattle and to eliminate
the many scrubs, magpies and nonde
Bcripts by substituting good feeder type
of cattle. That this need was very ap
parent was answered to the satisfaction
of all. The other, regarding the value of
silage in a ration for beef production,
was demonstrated beyond any question ;
that such feed as Milage was beneficial
in every respect, not only does it show
greater ecenomy, but f also shows
greater rapidity of gains and nicer,
cleaner condition of the animals.
ASSOCIATION WILL
HANDLE ITS FRUIT
BY SALES AGENTS
Report That Northwest Exchange
Will Handle Product of Oregon
Growers Is Denied.
Jerseys for SlanTield
A dozen Stanfield- farmers recently
purchased 50 head of high class Jersey
cattle for the improvement of their
herds. Of the 50 head, 15 registered
cows and two bulls were from the J. C.
Brown ranch, and 11 registered cows
and 27 grade cows were from the J. C.
McConnell ranch, also of Shedd.
The Oregon Growers' Cooperative as
sociation is developing one of the finest
sales departments on the Pacific coast,
says R. C. Paulus. in a letter to The
Journal, dated February 14.
Statements in the public press that
the Oregon association is to market its
fruit through the Northwestern Fruit
exchange Is indignantly denied by Pro
fessor C. I. Lewis, who is in charge of
organization. "No such action has ever
been thought of nor contemplated," said
Profe6or Lewis.
"Paulus Is in the East at the mo
ment getting together a real sales de
partment, which will be able to handle
all the fruit of the Oregon Growers' as
sociation." IMPRESSION IS CORRECTED
J. F. Langner of The Journal,, who
attended the Skookum Packers' conven
tion and spoke on the value of adver
tising says that no such suggestion was
put forward at the Skookum Packers'
association meeting.
The Northwestern Fruit exchange ts
not a cooperative marketing association
of fruit growers, but by no possible
combination of circumsinces. it Is said,
can the Northwestern Fruit Exchange
handle the Oregon Growers' association
crop.
Some members of the association be
lieve that the rumor that the Oregon
growers had made arrangements with
the Northwestern Fruit exchange to
market its fruit had been prompted by
Interests who are always opposed to
the fruit growers organising for coop
erative marketing. . -
WARXIXG IS GIVES
Aaron Sapiro of San Francisco whose
plan of organization was accepted by
the Oregon Growers association, and
who urged the members of the Skookum
Packers' association to adopt a similar
selling policy, says:; "The growers may
constantly expect attempts to disrupt
their organisation, and it Is a favorite
sport of California speculators to tell
the organixed fruit growers of that state
that their executives are trying to sell
them out."
The sales policy of the Oregon Grow
ers' association Is directed by a board
of 21 directors and the Oregon Grow
ers will .market their fruit, with an Ore
gon label, through their own associa
tion under sales managership of R. C.
Paulus of Salem, who has made such a
notable success of the Salem Fruit union.
Lakeside Gifat Dairy Produffr ,
Eugene, Feb. 21. -The Lakeside sec
tion of Lane- county, Just south of
Florence, la developing Into- great
dairy center, according to H. T. Wel
ter of the extension department of the
Mutual Creamery company. Just re
turning from that lake section of the
county, Mr. Weiser says that many
farmers are milking from BO to H .
cows each and that almost all dairy
men in that part of the state are in
creasing their herds.
Fruit Tree Shipment Condemned
Centralla. Wash.. Feb. 21. A large
shipment of young fruit trees from
Toppenish nursery was condemned by
District Horticulturist Theo Albert, .
the roots had apparently been frosen.
LENSCH BROS.
241 Front Street. Corner Main, Portland, Oregon
Headquarters for
Hay, Grain Feed, Garden Seeds, Beet
' Pulp, Fisher's Dairy Feed and
Poultry Food
Fluhrer Bros.' Shingles
FULL LINE OF GROCERIES
LOW CASH PRICES
Cowllti Cows' Hralfh (.ood
Kelso. Wash.. Keh. 21. Cowlitz
county cows are comparatively free
from tubercular Infection. State Vet
erinarian Cliff Ackley found only 24
tubercular reactions out of 4.10 cows
tested. These cows will be slaugh
tered under supervision of a state vet
erinarians. Dr. Ackley will test more of
the herds in the vicinity of Kelso.
(showed the party the value of using pure
bred bulls in grading up beef cattle.
This was demonstrated by inspecting
50 head of calves, all showing a pre
dominance of well blooded animals an?
! a uniformity, and a total feeder type
observed in no other feeding plan dur
ing this trip.
At the experiment station, Superin
tendent Wlthycombe conducted the party
through the steer and sheep feeding lots.
The visitors were given an opportunity
not only to view the cattle, but to get
figures to date on the various gains the
animals are making under different
I systems of management and feeding.
! The steers at the station are showing
! satisfactory results and the information
I received from Wlthycombe was much
appreciated by the party.
HORSEMAX INSTALLS MILKER
The boys were aU.f urprised to hear
of the Installation ofarmilking machine
Increase ur arrn Profib
$ MUSKRATS k
Bringing Big
Money
Rustle up all the musk
rats you can and send to
us now while we are pay
ing the high top prices.
You never got as much
for your raw turs as we
are now paying.
WE ALSO WANT TOCB
OTTER MINK
RACCOON
OPOSSUM
aad AU Other Furs
We pay highest prices.
We send yoar money mt
once. We give yon fair
deal.
GIYE US A TRIAL
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Canby Farmers to
View Berry Ranches
Canby, Feb. 21. The farmers of the
Canby district are to be given an oppor
tunity to inspect the successful and
prosperous berry farms of the valley in
the Hubbard and Woodburn localities at
the invitation of W. L. Bentley, repre
senting the Puyallup and. Sumner Fruit
Growers Canning company, which has
just opened a receiving station in the
former creamery building in Canby.
The trip is with a view to showing the
farmers hereabouts, who have always
specalised In general farming, and paid
but little attention to the raising of
berries and small fruits, unless it be for
their own family use, just what can be
accomplished with berries, how to pre
pare the soil, how to plan and then take
care of them, as well as the plan for
marketing. A general effort is being
made to induce the farmers of this end
of the county to devote more acreage
to the growing of berries, it being
argued that there is considerable more
money in so doing than In any other
kind of farming because of; the great
demand for canned berries, ! jams and
fruit juices.
Sunflower Silage Fed
Farmers In Tillamook county, in co
operation with County Ajjer Jones, are
feeding sunflower silage, and indications
are tna sunflowers may prove aa valu
able in the cool coast districts where
corn does not produce as satisfactorily
as It has in the Eastern Oregon sections.
Non-Spillable Bucket Invented
A new invention of interest to dairy
men is a non-spillable sanitary milk
bucket invented, by P. W. Pick of Portland.
Avery Six Cylinder
The Ideal 2-Plow Outfit
Lowest clearance, easiest turning and quickest action.
For orchard work it has no equal.
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FEENAUGHTY MACHINERY CO.
309 E. Yamhill, Portland, Ore.
This farm belongs to a man whom
his neighbors call the man with an
! open mind. He always has to be
! shown; but he is always ready to
i be shown.
He does not clutch blindly at each
new thing, nor does he cling for
ever to every ancient, rusty prac
tice. New methods submitted to
htm are examined sanely and thor-
jouzhly tested.
! It was told to this farmer that the
Milwaukee Air Power Pump Co. rep
resentative in his county was an ex
pert, trained to install, on a sep
arate, special plan for each farm, a
water and light system that would
increase the farm's value and profits
and bring the water u? direct from
the well and cistern every time the
faucet was turned. This farmer
went to the trained representative.
With many questions, the farmer
searched for exact facts. He was
convinced. The system was in
stalled. His farm, shown in the above illus
tration, now has water piped di
rectly from well and cistern to farm
house, barn. lawn, watering trough
and dairy; and there's electric light
in all buildings.
Our representative has been
trained. Do as this farmer did
talk to our representative; there's
no charge for consulting him. Let
him convince you that hc knows
how to make your farm worth more,
besides making you bigger profits,
ty'e have a representative in your
county. If you don't know him,
write us.
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Call at our warehouse and allow us to explain why the
Russell "Three-Speed" Transmission Tractor
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