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ASSOCIATION
The practice of testing cows to de
termine their milk and batter-tat pro
duction and feed consumption by
means of cow-testing asaoalations has
become widespread.
There are now
452 associations of thta kind in the
United States, besides many in foreign
countries. In most cases each associa-
tlon ba« one tester and no more cows
than can be well handled, but there
are some very large ones and some
that are much smaller than the stand
ard. The theoretical number of mem
bers In a cow-testing association is 26,
which makes one member for the test
er to visit each working day of the
month. A member of such an associa
tion Is supposed to have not atorg
tian 30 cows, as that makes a large
day’s work.
If every member had
that number, there would be 780 cows
in the association, but few of them
have that many.
There is no definite relation between
the number of members in an associa
tion and the. number of cows owned.
•re eome ïkwt are quite sasaff. One
m Maaaachuaetts haa 9------ ,-tr,
and U6 cows; ano«>er la Kansas haa
IO members and 88 eows; and i*
Michigan there is one with 4 herds
and only æ
PLAN FOR BULL ASSOCIATION!
UM •* co-operstivs cow-testing
•Moriatiooa haa resulted in great im
provement in the quality of the dairy
cows in the localities where they hare
been orgaalaed by reason of tha stft-
t 0,11 ** th* l0W Producers and the
discovery of good cows that might
otherwise have been gucrifleed.
The United States Department of
Agriculture collects statistics of all
the cow-teating associations and is
sues a directory of all thorn- that are
active on July 1 each year.
It also
Every dairy fanner knows that be
assista In the organisation of asso
ciations, working through the comity would get better returns from hla feed
agent if there is one in the commu •nd labor If he had high-grade stock;
but the idea of establishing a blooded
nity.
herd immediately suggests “kid glove”
and
bankruptcy.
“Two
STERILIZATION IS ESSENTIAL farming
thou.sand dollar cows and two-dollar
milk," was one farmer’s characterisa
All Pails, Strainers, Separator Parks, tion.
Etc., Should Be Steamed for
Yet the United States Department of
Five Minutes.
leading
Agriculture
annually
is
hundreds of farmers toward the pos-
Milk will keep better and make bet session of herds that will Increase
ter products If all pails, strainers, and the
butter
former
mflk
and
separator parts are sterilized, says the fat yield with the same outlay for
I nlted States Department of Agricul upkeep. Ous of the most useful
ture. Use live steam for five minutes. agencies Is the co-operstivs bull
If you cannot get live steam, boil ill association.
utensils for at lre;t .five minutes. A
Highgrade cow will impali her ex-
IDEA HAS BEEN IN USE IN EUROPE FOR
MANY YEARS, BUT IS COM
PARATIVELY NEW HERE
TO cow*. The cows should be divided
late blocks of that number, with re
gard te geographical convenience, and
arrangements made for the keeping of
the bull by a responsible member
where farm is conveniently located.
The fee« should be such a» to cover
the purchase coat and the coat of keep
for a year and annual aasesanients
provided thereafter.
Valuable Information on the forma
tion and conduct of bull association«
will be found In Farmers’ Bulletin
803, which the department will send
free on request
Bupplemaotal In
formation. Including plana for a model
bull pen. and data on the operation
and success of various eetabllsbed bull
associations can also be had by cor-
rrepondence. The department Is doing
everything In Its power to promote the
co-operative bull association move
ments as one of the moat valuable ad
vances made in modem dairying.
nead Of youfig stock, with I due pro
portion of high milk-producing heifers.
As the ftrst generation of heifers be
came milkers, the breeding value of
the bulls would become established
and any Inferior sires could be weeded
out. Five bulls kept for ten years may
Gentleness With Cows.
change the entire dairy Industry of a
Oows respond to gentle treatment.
community and possibly give Its cattls
The dairyman who makes pets of his
a distinctiveness that would ba a
calves and who continues to fondle the
valuable market asset.
animals even after they have dropped
Co-operative bull associations have
their own calves Is almost certain to
existed In Europe for a long time. In
possess u herd of good milkers.
America the system Is only twelve or
thirteen years old, but records of milk
Freewater to rebuild grange hall
and butter-fat production are In pos
session of the department, showing recently destroyed by fire.
tangible benefit far exceeding the
Astoria to h/iv* new Baptist
cost to the cow owners.
At New Windsor, NhJ , far Instance. church.
COW-TESTING
w hat the eow-tsatlug work
meaut to one Wisconsin farmer
stated «o simply and concisely iu a
report to an agent of the dairy divl-
slon. United States Department of Ag
riculture. that It is worth passing
•long. Thta farmer says:
•“The cow testing In the west section
of Outagamie county has been carried
on with marked success.
“We hare become better acquainted.
The man who has been taking good
«■are of his cows has also become bet
ter known.
"We have learned to know our cows
not by wbat they seetned but by what
they actually are, to understand the
necessity of selecting heifer calves
from onr best cows to be raised for
our future herd.
"We have learned to look on the
dairy cow not as a necessary part of
our personal property but a real live
machine, capable of returning values
received plus, and that plus depending
largely upon the care, feed, and breed
ing of the dulry cow.
t
NOT
A “Special” issue now and then, but 52 special
issues every year, crammed full of news of
Tillamook county
The Paper That Gives the News
Independent and fearless—delivered to you
by mail fifty-two times in 1922 for
CWWrnTa there la o«« association
t tests 4,000 oows and another that
is <400. and the number of n»ni-
» are, respeetiyely, 40 and 100. An-
*r la the same state ha» *1 mem-
■ ana snly 1,430 cows; there are
aaaaclatlons In California with over
Associations Uncover
Prod users.
High
• tews each. Ordinarily the num-
•f eows in an association runs from
10 500. the average for the coun-
*ring 42».
The number of herds
**g* 24.8. To have more than *>ue
** is a California practice, and one
Nation In that state has three In
J»« to the large association* In
"ortjia _and a few elsewhere, there
simple «Team iteriliker T<tr Shiry sten- I cetlest ffUaHfles te on« calf la a y «ar, revre aaugnsers rft «ne sire aveiagee
-•ls. which cast be made be a local li sad the total of Mgk grad« farm csttl* 27S.fi pesnds of*butter fat a year. an
tinsmith, 1» described la Farmers’ Rwl- la increased by one. On the oth«r Imyrev ement over tbe average «f
letln 74«. “A Simple «team Sterilizer hand, a ball »hvw muther had the 208.3 peoads for thetr dam». ’Mil« wa»
for Farm Dairy Utensil».” The bulle same mHk and butter qualification», (Mily the fir«t penerstl««. The Bve-
tin may be had on application to the and whore father 1» descended frem blixk aanoHation wfll permit Une
a milk and batter »train, may sir« as breedhig wlth greetty Inoeeesed ta*
depart meat.
many a« 75 calve., each oarrylag Its «IMIitie».
share of the rarial eaceilenee. This I
To oraewire a ce-eperetlva bull as
Earnsd Her Maney.
George Ade, from hl» box at the bull ean do duty with one l*t of e«w» sociation W I» firet advlsable te amuse
as mnch laterent •• possible la the
Carpentier-Dempsey fight, nodded In
plan tbresgh nieetiags. eonversatiou,
•the, direction of a beautiful young
and the rircuiathm of Department of
woman with very marvelous jewel».
Agriculture llterature
It la possible
“That’s Cora de Trafford.
She
that the cownty agent er even seine
carved out her fortune." he »aid.
•taie <rr fédéral agricsltural repré
“Rat!” protested a cinema producer
sentative <-an be Indnced to belp per-
“That ax-ehorus girl didn’t esrve ent
___ Adviee can always be •!»-
sonally.
her fortune. She married Hugh de
Mined treat the department by mall.
Trafford, the wild septuagenarian mil-
Forms can Im had from tbe <le|«rt-
ll°^Ye»*’’ »aid Mr. Ads, “but think how
ment for a preliminary agreement. In
which, among other thing*, the number
many other chorus girt» »he had ta cut
of cows owned by each prospective
out to marry him."
member 1» Hated
When a sufficient
number of cow» have l»«en listed, a
Printing It
Flv. Bull» Like Thio W.ll Improve an meeting should be called and araange-
“Do ynu remember Bort» I’opoff,
Entire Dairy Community.
ments made for incorporation. Each
who used to visit the Fink Elephant
member wfhild contribute in propor
for
two
years without danger of In-
tea room?"
thin to Hue number of cow» he own»,
•t
bree
of.
If
there
were
five
lots
«f
What’« Boris doing
“Quite well.
|,ut would have only one vote.
I *>».» »nd five bulla, and tbe bulla were
now?”
A« early aa possible, the temporary
a
lot
of
mon«r
in
,-ta-ed
from
h
«
rd
to
••He’« makipg
I ev.two y^rs, rech bull woo hare or |H-rm«iient «wcretary should begin
Russia."
. wrrsH«*»**»»« ’r,,h breeder* having
[ a period of urefulnere of P<>s* bl»_'
-You don’t say ! Howr
,M high-grade bull« *W sale. One buM
“He's running ■ BobfeeviM print ( J years. a»d «'V
«t.ould be yurrhased for about-cvdlj
Busala la almost a raatfless land. It
la inconceivable to the foreign visitor
who has over left the beaten track of
the rah wavs In Russia how a great
empire can ha ye stibalated «• long and
m succeasfutly without even a pre
tense at reads. The secret Iles In the
fact that for live or six months In
the
year nature herself provide,
road* over the greeter pert ef Russia
—admirable smooth glossy roadways
over hard-worn «new. The truffle la
further cheapened over these reeds
by the substitution of a aledge runner
for the wheal and axle. This brings
the cost of land casrlnge as near the
cheapness of water-borne freight as
possible. and It la the principal rea
son why Itusaia In the Twentieth can
tury la stU! a roadless land.
Tropical Fish Off Jersey.
James E. Taylor, while flahing •ft
Cape May. M. J., a abort time ago. ran
Into a »howl of pompano, a flab that
never hav been found outside of trot,
leal waters.
Taylor and hl« aoi
rstight nearly W0 of tlw-m. Fisher
men any that potni-nn« bring ■■ h‘gli
n* *1.2t> a pound In southern markets
<*id Inhabitant« say it 1« a sure sign
of ■ mild winter, as tropical fish ar»
never «aught this late north of Nur
Drove Popular Author Tee Hard.
At a recent autograph sale in New
York were several letters from <>.
Henry, written In the beginning of hla
last llkieas. He was always dlla’ory
about hi« wwk sod triad the pntlence
of edlturs. At »he last they did not
understand that they wore urging him
beyond hla strength. In one ut those
letters he writes:
“Tea are sure aalag plenty of ’»ar-
kassutn’ on me these days. I don’t see
why you shonld think I am lying about
my Ulne««. I can show you a doctor’s
Itali that may restore a little of your
eonfidaaee la hanmu notare. I have
had a bad case of nervous Insouinln
as 1 aver wane to have, and the doctor
has been trying to get mo sleep ami
relief. The telephone and all my oth
er friands ware cut off for that pur
pose I got some sleep last night by
the free use of wulpbonol and I frei
some better today. . . . My work
la all rone to tbe devil. I am lest In a
wilderns«« of past due stories, hut I
will pall out soon.’
125.000 bonds voted for 1000 act*
County.
Myrtl« Point plans municipal ava
tar proj-ect.
Silverton foundry •■larged.