The Coquille Valley sentinel., December 11, 1931, Page 6, Image 6

TD COQOilXl tAIXMT SENTINEL. COQUILLE, ORBGON. FfilDAt, DECEMBER ü. IMI.
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Tbs following article from the offire
of County Agent (Joo. Jenkins should
be of great interest to sll dairymen,
and especially in Coos county where the
dairy industry leads all ethers in
value of returns and in the number of
persona engaged in that industry:
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An extremely important function of
any cow testing association should be
to determine the value of herd sires.
We may talk pedigree and dams’ rec­
ords as much as we like but the real
value of a bell to dependent upon the
production of the offspring be sires
and it to only in recent years that the
proved sire has received a portion of
the credit that is due him. Those who
have owned bulla have doubtless been
disappointed in the production of
some sire that on paper looked very
good. The only sire which to sure to
the proved sire. The term “proved”
airs” has been very loosely applied by
’ many people. It to often applied to
a bull with no offspring over a year
old and also to a bull as soon as he
has some daughter milking. A good
indication of the value of a sire to the
comparison of the production of six oil
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hto daughters with the production of
the dam. Investigational work has
shown that this number to a minimum
on which to base judgment of a boll’s
transmitting ability, according to
George H. Jenkins, County Agent.
The selection of a bull which will
increase the production of daughters
over their dems in commercial dairy
herds to probably the most important
problem confronting C om county
dairymen at this time. There are
several reasons why there are not
more proved sires available so that
more dairymen will not have to worry
about whether the now bull to going to
make or break them. The first reason
to that it to only recently that the ad­
vantage of using proved sires has
been emphasised. Another to that not
enough dairy herds are doing testing
work. As bulls get older they some­
times get ornery and hard to handle
and many a good bull has gone to the
butcher because he cannot be handled.
Ono of the biggest handicaps to the
proving of bulls to lack of adequate
facilities to handle the vicious ones.
Plans for the construction of a safety
bull pen can be secured from the
County Agent.
The um of a proven sire by dairy­
men in Coos county will be stressed
through the agricultural Extension
program during this next year.
A
series of community meetings is now
being scheduled at which
Roger
Morse, extension dairyman, will il­
lustrate the value of the proven sire
through herediscope boards which
have been prepared for that purpose.
This program to encourage the use of
proven siree will include the filing of
information on all registered sires in
the county and a plan through which
registered bull calves from high pro­
ducing dams will bo substituted for
the scrub bull. In determining the
value of sires in um in the county,
comparisons will bo made at the pro­
duction of heifers with the productton
of their dam. The basis for all of
this work will be the records provided
through the cow testing association
work and an attempt will be made to
secure a largo membership among
dairymen in the county for this work
during 1932.
There are approximately 23 mi'iion
dairy cows in the United States. Of
this number nearly eight million are
losing money for their owners. Near­
ly as many more are merely paying
for their keep and the reminder are
carrying the dairy industry so far as
profit to concerned.
About thirteen thousand of there 23
million dairy cowe are in Coos county.
While the average quality of cows in
Coos county is far superior to the
average for the United States, it is
safe to My that between two and
three thousand of the cows in Coos
county are losing money for their
owner and that probably that many
more are just paying the cost of feed,
labor and investment.
Some of the eowa in this group that
are losing money for their owners
are cows that do not have the In­
herited ability to produce profitably.
Others have the ability but their pro­
duction is limited by improper feed
and care, disease and other factors.
The necessity for eliminating there
unprofitable cows to évident and the
question arises as to which cows are
the non-profit makers.
Picking out
this group of non-paying boarders to
not as simple as it e s e rns and culling
by guess has resulted in many good
cows going to the block. Selection by
appearance of the cow atone to at beat
not accurate when done by dairymen
of a great deal of experience and
ability. Production records are nec­
essary for proper culling and manage­
ment of the dairy herd. The keeping
of accurate records entails no little
time and the dairy herd improvement
association should in meet cases be
the dairyman’s solution of the prob­
lems.
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indicated by a study of dairy herd im-
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provement association records First,
they point out the unprofitable cows.
No country has better cows than our
good cows yet the production per cow
in the United States is considerably
below that of some other countries
such as Holland, Denmark, Sweden
and Germany. We have in this coun­
try more than 175 cows that have pro­
duced over one thousand pounds of
butterfat in one year. There are few
if any that have produced so much in
Denmark, yet the average production
there is approximately SO per cent
higher than ours. Our reason for the
high average produetion there may bo
that M per cent of the total cow popu­
lation is tested for production each
year, while in this country ws are
testing only a little better than two
per cent.
Association records also furnish in­
formation on which to base an econ­
omical feeding program. It is just as
uneconomical to underfeed a good cow
as it is to overfeed a poor cow and
intelligent feeding is next to impos­
sible unless production is known. Ad­
justment of feeding according to pro­
duction has often resulted in a saving
of total feed consumed and an inersaes
in production. In most cases a study
of the records
of home grown feeds.
Another factor often brought out in
association records is the length of
milking periods. In the records we
often remember that “Old Beauty”
gave six gallons a day when she was
fresh and forgot that she was giving
only a gallon a day five months later.
A study of our association records
will also bring out any loss incurred
by disease in the herd.
Abortion
takes its toll not only, in lose of calves
but also in most cases lowered produc­
tion and lowered resistance to disease,
such as breeding and udder troubles.
A better selection of heifer calves for
replacement can be made if based on
management study of records and
heifers can be selected from cows in
families that are uniformly good, per­
sistant producers. We often find ani­
mals that did not make good records
because they were off feed, had udder
trouble, etc. Often the records reveal
that such herd luck seems to run in
the families which lends to the sus­
picion that there may be inherited
weaknesses which predispose an ani-
mal to such troubles.
While the record of a cow may not
always be an accurate basis on which
to select heifer calves for replacement,
it is certainly the most accurate wfy
MYRTLE POINT
we know of except to keep them until
they prove themselves in production,
and this is not practical for the com­
mercial dairymen. Testing work con­
tinually brings out the economy of
high production, and in practically
every case records illustrste that as
production increases so also does the
return over feed cost.
A poem that deals appropriately
with the above article is also furnish­
ed by Mr. Jenkins:
The leaner costs more for her keep
than she earns.
Wherever you go you will find the
breed's masse«
Are always divided into just these two
clssses.
And strsngely enough, you will find,
as I’ve seen.
There are about ten lifters to twenty*
that lean.
And the dairyman finds by testing and
weighing
That these noble lifters do all of tlje
TWO KINDS OF COWS
, \
paying.
There are two kinds of cows on our
—Frank E. Round«.
farms today,
Just two kinds of cows and no more,
Attorney General Van Winkle is
I say.
back in Washington, D. C., trying to
Not Jersey, or Guernsey, Ayrshire, or
collect a claim of 1358,000 which the
Holstein.
federal government owes to the state
For it isn’t the breed of cows that I
of Oregon for money advanced in
mean.
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equipping troops during the Civil
Not the fat, or the lean, or the large, War. Similar claims presented by the
or the small,
states of Nevada and New York, it is
Nor the ones that stand in the up-to- said, have been recognized by the
date stalls.
government and paid and the state of
No, the two kinds of eows on our California is pressing a claim at this
farms that I mean
time also.
Are the cows that lift and the cows
that lean.
Safety First! U m Cow Boll Dairy’s
The lifter la one that brings large re­
turns,
Pasteurised Milk
health.
and
protect
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given thst the an­
nual meeting of the shareholders of
The First National Bank of Coquille,
Oregon, for the election of Directort:
for the ensuing year and for the
transaction of such other business as
ms/ properly come before the meet­
ing, will be held at the office of Mid
Bank in Coquille, Oregon, on Tues­
day, January 12th, 1982, between the
hours of 10:00 A. M. and 4:00 P. M.
Dated at Coquille, Oregon, this
9th day of December, 1931.
L. H. Hau rd. President
48t5
E. D. Webb, Cashier
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’
MEETING
Notice is hereby given that the reg­
ular annual stockholders’ meeting of
the Farmers & Merchants Bank will
b?
it’ banking house in the
city of Cogi
" |uiile. State of Oregon, at
the hour of 4 p. m. o’clock on Thurs-
day, January
. 14 4th, 1932.
The purpose ft
for which this meeting
is called is to elect a Board of Direc­
tors for the ensuing year and for the
transaction of any other business that
may be properly presented.
Lyman Carrier,
President.
Attest:
W. S. Bickels, '
48t5
Cashier.
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and fuel.
for transfer