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3 FOREST GROVE PRESS, FOREST GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1913. V POPULAR d \ MECHANICS Farm Dairying Popular Mechanics Magazine "W R IT T E N SO Y O U C A N U N D E R S T A N D I T ” GREAT Continued Story of the World'» Progress which you may begin reading at any time, and which will hold your interest forever. 250 PAGES EACH MONTH 300 PICTURES 200 ARTICLE3 OF GENERAL INTEREST A Jersey Heifer Th e " S h o p N otes” Departm ent (20 pages) gives easy ways to do thin.xs—how to make useful articles for home and shop, repairs, etc. "A m a te u r M echanics” (10 pages) tells how to make Mission furniture, wireless outfits, boats, engines, magic, and all the things a boy loves. $1.50 PER YEAR. SINGLE COPIES 15 CENTS III— Advice to Buyers of Cows. Ask your newsdealer, or W R IT E F O R F R E E S A M PLE CO PY TODAY P O P U L A R M E C H A N IC S C O . I t S W . W ashington St.. CHICAQO By L A U R A R O SE. Demonstrator and Lecturer In Dairying at the Ontario Agricultural Col lege, Guelph, Canada j [C opyright, 1911, by A. C. M cC lu rg & Co.J HEN buying a cow It Is not always possible to find out the actual yield and quality of her milk. In such a case we must look for outward Indications : that are likely to bespeak good milking ability. Some people lay little stress on form ■ mid place nil the emphasis on the per- ! form. While we agree with them, yet at the same time we believe the form ; at the typical dairy cow to be a result of the performance at the milk pall through many past generations. Oue has followed the other as surely as the fruit follows the blossom. W From the preparing of the food to the serving, a b s o lu t e cleanliness and painstaking care is observ ed by the Forest Grove Oyster House Everything to Eat O y ste rs and Shellfish a Development of the Cow, By selection, breeding and manage ment the cow with naturally a small paunch, diminutive udder and ability Specialty. O pen D ay and Night ED. BOOS, Proprietor T G . C. G R A Y , A BARN W ITH O U T L IG H T AND AIH IS A BR E E D IN G l'LAC K F O R TUB1CBCULOSIS. elbow should be well (Tiled o u t' Ju st lu this part are situated the vital or gans—the heart and lungs. A eow nar row between the forelegs is exactly the suuie os a narrow chested person—both are apt to be subjects for tuberculosis. The backbone should be large, loose ly pointed and n little prominent, an other Indication of nerve power, for In the backbone runs the spinal cord, the chief nerve o f the body. The barrel or body o f the eow should have good length and depth. This Is her storehouse and should be capable o f holding large quantities of fooA The cow should be wide und strong across the loins to support this large paunch, for weakness in this I>oint o f ten causes a sag lu the back. The thighs should be tblu and hollowed out to give plenty of space between the legs, and the flanks should be high, a? lowing room for a large udder. Horsemen say, “ No foot, no horse." Dairymen say. “ No udder, no cow." The udder should extend well up at the back and well forward, being strongly attached to the body. The sole o f the udder in a cow. especially a young cow, should be level and the teats evenly placed aud conveniently long to be milked. The udder should be covered with fine soft hair, should be springy, and the veins should be prominent. Take Your Coupon Book TO The leading and enterprising firms with whom we have arranged to redeem Press Coupons. Their prices m eet all competition. THE JACKSON PHARMACY HOFFMAN & ALLEN General Merchandise Cornelius Main Street, Forest Grove GOFF BROTHERS GOFF BROTHERS Hardware, Implements, Autos Hardware and Supplies - Pacific Avenue, Forest Grove Milk Veins and Milk Walls. GEO. G. PATERSON The milk veins coming from the ud der and running forward under the body should be large, tortuous and ex tending well toward the front before entering the body through what are culled the milk wells. Sometimes these openings in the abdominal wall are small and press the veins, swelling them and making them appear larger than they really are. In buying a cow not milking It Is well to feel the size of the milk wells, and they will be some Indication of the size and leugth o f tbe milk veins. After the cow is milked out tbe ud der should bang like a bag o f skin, soft and pliable. Occasionally we see a cow with a beautiful udder, After being milked she still has her beautiful udder, but has added little to the milk pail. This is known as a fleshy udder and often deceives a buyer. The escutcheon, or milk mirror, is considered by some dairymen as an important indication of a cow ’s value ns a milker. The escutcheon is that portion of the hind quarters at the back and top of the udder where the hair points upward Instead o f downward. It is taken as a good sign when the space covered with such hair Is large and when there are several “ cores" or “ whirlpools" where the hair gathers toward a center. Some judges like the terminal tall bone to reach the hock. The tail is but a continuation of the backbone—tbe larger and more loosely jointed the vertebrne tbe longer the tall. It should taper toward the point and end In a nice, full switch. Cornelius A . S. HENDRICKS Furniture and Pianos General Merchandise Main Street, Forest Grove SHEARER & SON Cornelius GASTON DRUG STORE Jewelers Drugs and Medicines Main Street, Forest Grove FOREST GROVE PH ARM ACY Pure Drugs and Medicines Gaston BRIGGS BROTHERS General Merchandise Pacific Avenue, Forest Grove SUN-RISE GROCERY * Groceries and Provisions Hardware Pacific Avenue, Forest Grove C. G. DANIELSON Cherry Grove ERIC ANDERSON Bicycles and Sundries Jewelry and Drugs Pacific Avenue, Forest Grove FOREST GROVE STUDIO Cherry Grove FORSBERG & BROSTROM Photos and Photo Supplies General Merchandise Forost Grove R. A. PHELPS A. J. COO K White Palace Cafe Cherry Grove THE C. C. STORE Day Goods, Groceries, Shoes, Hardware Pacific Ave., Forest Grove Expert Carpet, Rug and Fancy Weaving C. L. BUMP & CO. General Meachandise South Forest Grove I MORTON & FREEMAN Orenco ORENCO DRUG CO. Drugs and Jewelry Orenco W m . OELRICH Groceries and Provisions Builders’ Materials Hillsboro Photos for Everybody J. A . HOFFMAN Orenco OREGON NURSERY CO. Jeweler si si Dilley G. LUNDQUIST & CO. First Look For Constitution. Summing up the qualities of a good Dilley, Oregon cow, we should say first look for con to give milk for only a short time to stitution. It is anything but pleasant nourish her youug has been developed Phone 52 to think of using milk which has come into an animal with big girth, enor from a sickly, diseased animal. Don’t mous udder and ability to give a good you think with me there Is a strong flow o f milk almost continuously. Such relationship between the vitality o f the Is the achievement of man in the ani cow and the vitality of the milk she mal kingdom. What then must we gives? First, then, let us emphasize look for lu a profitable dairy c o w - the necessity of having a healthy eow points common to all breeds? Orders called for as Indicated by a readiness for her Beginning at the nose, we like the and delivered. food, a full, bright eye, soft, pliable uostrils to be large to admit plenty of hair and skin: steady, even breathing air to the lungs, so as to keep the •< and good heart and lung capacity. blood pure and the cow healthy. The Then we want good milking qualities, mouth should be large and the lips ns suggested by a strong nervous sys firm, but elastic. A large mouth Is said tem, large middle piece and splendid to Indicate n large nppetite. Whether udder. She should have a quiet, con this is limited to cowkind and does tented disposition, submit quietly to not extend to mankind I know not. being handled and should be an easy but I do know we seek cows with good, milker. keen appetites, for If they do their A cow should Increase In her milk duty the more food the more milk. flow during the first few lactation pe From the muzzle up to the eyes riods, and frequently there Is a slight should be clean cut and not too heavy. increase In the percentage of fat as The eyes should be large and bright. We want to assure she reaches maturity. They indicate the nervous constitution She may be said to be at her best you we are prepar of the animal, and a cow to be a good from her fifth to her eighth year, and j ed to give you the milker should have strong nerves. many do splendid work for many years “ S h s Knew Her Business.” very best work in after that age. The forehead—the space between the A cow should make from $30 to $00 the latest approved eyes—should be wide and dished. The a year profit. A very good one may designs, and that dished effect results from the full eye, your early order for and we want the breudth, for there is where the brains nre situated. Cows Portraits will insure show Intelligence In their faces much you the perfection the same as human beings do. I have o f careful attention fancied as I looked at a fine cow that she knew what her business was and to detail. did not neglect It. Mark you, when a cow Is keeping her Jaws going she is & working—yes. Just as much and Just ns effectively as a set o f stones In a grist mill or a weaver at a loom. She, CROSS SECTION O F C O W ’ S U D D E R , RHOWINO too. Is taking raw material and manu T B E C E L L S IN W H IC H M IL K IS HECIIETBD. facturing It Into a finished product make for her owner $75 to $100. The But. to return to her head. The horns profit may be estimated If the food cost should be symmetrical and not too | be subtracted from the value of the •« large. The ears not very large, and | milk fat. Tbe value o f the skimmllk, I when they are turned back there calf and manure offsets tbe coat of la should be seen a jellow oily secretion bor In connection with the care of the on the inside. This should also be ! cow. found on the udder and on the tip of Pets of the Herd, B u t - the bill. I have heard that It Indicates Receiving good care, a cow should rfMiness of milk, but more likely it de give 0.000 pounds o f milk, testing at notes constitutional vigor and thrift. : least 3.6 per cent fat, or should make For the same reason we like the hair j 250 pounds o f butter in a year. A to be soft and ohy or silky, end when heifer should reach this amount In her we pull the skin up from the ribs It ■econd lactation period. This Is not a should be elastic and spring back and high standard, but If put into force not lie thick and leathery. throughout the country It would mean The neck should be slender and neat that three-quarters o f the cows would ly Joined to t he shoulders. There should Pacific Ave. be doomed. The average yearly yield be no excessive amount o f loose, flab per cow is not over 4,000 pounds of by skin on the under part o f the throat milk. With such an average, bow and neck. many very poor ones there must be! The Double Wedge. What about yours? In nearly every We (and I might here explain that ■table there are aleek. gentle cows, "w e" means myself and all who agree which stretch their necks as greedily as with mei like to see the double wedge can be for mangels and meal and which I In the dairy form. From the head she walk forth with a leisurely Important •« should gradually Increase In width to air to pastures green nnd luxuriant, the ward the hind quarters. Then from Shearer & Son are prepared to the shoulders down we like to see her pe*» often o f the herd, and yet If X rays of the scales and the test for fat ) all kinds o f watch repairing broaden ou t were thrown on such cows the revela romptly and accurately. The There should be good width between tion would assign them to the buteb- the forelegs, and the space behind tbs •r s block. est of workmanship. 9tf Drugs and Medicines Wholesale and Retail Nursery Stock Hillsboro THE DELTA DRUG STORE Drugs and Medicines Orenco M. P. C AD Y General Merchandise Hillsboro Beaverton PERCY LONG J. L. HARDY Hardware 2nd Street, Hillsboro MRS. M. L. BURDAN Forest Grove Studio. Confectionery and Patent Medicines Beaverton R. L. TUCKER Millinery Everything to Build With 2nd Street, Hillsboro SAELENS & SP1ESSEHEART I Meat Market Beat the Prices at the Beaverton N. C. LILLY General Merchandise 2nd Street, Hillsboro A . C. DONELSON Farmers’ Grocery and Meat Market Gales Creek E. J. AYERS Furniture General Merchandise Gales Creek Hillsboro KINTON & JENSEN PEOPLES STORE J. D. R O D E General Merchandise General Merchandise Banks Hillsboro MRS. WINIFRED GUNTON Pope Photo Gallery Hillsboro, Oregon I BRODERICK & HUMBERG Blacksmith and General Repairing Cornelius, Ore