THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
PAGE SIX
TILLAMOOK
Scientific Breeding Brings Big Returns in
Increased Milk Production; Tillamook
Leads in the Northwest
COUNTY BANK
Reprinted from the Portland Tel­
egram of November 26, the following
article by F. R. Beals, proprietor of
Highland Grove farm is especially
interesting In view of the sale of the
Beals’ herd of Holsteins to the Car-
tlfic methods of selection and breed­
ing this production has been stead­
ily increased to a point where the
progressive dairyman of today is not
satisfied, with less than an average
of 7000 to 15,000. pounds of milk,
depending upon the breed, and 350
pounds or more of butterfat for the
nation stock farms last week.
yearly production of a cow, and
In obediance to your request that some of the great breeders have de­
i express my views as to whether er veloped cows In excess of 30,00$
DIRECTORS
R. E. WILLIAMS
T. M. LYSTER
H. T. BOTTS
JAMES WILLIAMS
DAVE FITZPATRICK
JOHN ERICKSON
THURSDAY. JANUARY 26,
1922
breeding and teat work has fallen love my scrub cow. She is a luxury.
upon the breeder.
Dairymen are entitled to luxuries
as well as other peopie. My neigh­
Tests Are Authentic
bor tells me to sell her to the butch­
These tests are conducted under er; but my neighbor is a hard-heart­
state supervision and the supervision ed man; so is the butcher. I love my
of the various breed associations, scrub cow. It requires much time to
and aretherefore authentic and of feed her but little time to milk her.
inestimable value as a guide to the My banker says that the small
breeder and dairyman in the choice amount of milk she contributes can
of his foundation stock.
justly be called “the milk of human
A concerted movement is now on kindness,’* for It is a human kind­
foot among the leading breeders to ness that allows her to exist. Evan
better the type of confirmation or Parson Jones was heard to remark
their animals. With this accom­ that “a greater love hath no man
plished it would seem that there ib than he who wears his young life
little left to be done by the breeder away to support a scrub cow, expect­
in perfecting thia greatest producer ing no peward, not even the res­
of human food—the dairy cow.
pect of real dairymen.” I love my
scrub cow. Who can doubt it? ... .
ASSOCIATION CALVES
Ar^you guilty? If so, there are cow
Agent Pine states that he had testing associations in Tillamook
very little success in placing orders county looking for members. Hand
for calves at $15. He has therefore in your name today. —Ex.
WM. MAXWELL
D. KURATLI
M. ABPLANOLP
«uva
CITY TIRE SHOP
J. C. Holden
TOPS!
Standard Top Recovering Outfits for Fords
everything ready to put on
same put on $11.50
Ford Rear Curtains put on $3.50
Celluloid in side curtains %c square inch.
All other tops in proportion.
See me before buying
Order by mail for Ford Tops. Weight 11 pounds
ready to ship.
LITSCHER TOP SHOP
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Johnson Chapter No. 24
of milk and 1200 pounds of notified all inquines tnat the price
jL
R. A. M.
has dropped .to $10. or $11.50 crat-
’
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Stated convocations every
ed f.o.b. Tillamook.
Big Strides Made
first and third Fridays.
Visiters
welcome.
I
love
my
scrub
cow.
She
gives
Th«se gigantic strides only have
=el
I. E. Keldson, Sec.
me employment every day in the
been made possible through intensi­
year.
She consumes my hay and
fication In breeding; that is to say, grain and grows fat and sleek. She
by the intelligent mating of pure­ is a thing of beauty, though a bur­ Tillamook Lodge No. 57, A.F. & A.M-
Stated Communication sec­
bred animals with strong dairy ten­ den forever. To produce milk and
ond Wednesday in each
dencias. These specialized animats, ! butterfat would distract from her
month Visiting Brethren
knowjt as the dairy type, can best t>e ■ physical beauty; therefore it is un-
welcome.
developed or being bred on farms : reasonable to expect it of her. She
I
Harvey Ebinger, Sec.
that are specially equipped for their ■ helps to reduce my income tax.
development and 98 percent of them
are iliveloped on such farms, often ;
referÁd fo as purebred farms. From
these ^purebred farms are disbursed
throuihout the country the founda­
Tuesday eve., 7:30 p.m.
tion 4tock from which th« commer- <
Silver Wave Chapter No. 18
Rebekak, Wednesday evening
cial dairy is builded.
Camp 2-4, Thursday
0. E. S.
A study of the noted dairy dis-
Stated communications first and
tricts’of the world will disclose that
the profitable dairy herds are pure­ third Thursdays of each month in
bred.« of high-grades, selected from , Masonic Hall. Visitors welcome.
CORA L. MILLER, Secretary
one of the following breeds of dairy
type cattle—Ayrshire, Guernsey,
Jersey or Holstein—whose origin is
traceable
some breeder who has '
Marathon Lodge No.
burned the midnight oil in devising
93, Knights of Pyth­
PETER BECKER
a plan of breeding that has produc- .
ias. Regular meeting
Merchant Tailor
Monday evening at
ed the desired result at the milk
7:45 sharp. By order
pall.
of
the Chancelier
Tillamook County Leads
Commander.
Twenty years ago there were very
few If any puivbred dairy cattle in
V. R. C.
Tillamook county. It Is said that
Corinith Relief Corps No. 54 Dept,
Tillamook county now has a greater
of Oregon, meets on first and third
number of purebred cattle In pro- • Friday evenings of each month, at
portion to its cow population than | 8 p. m., in the W. O. W. hall. Visi-
any other dairy district of the < tors welcome.
Mrs. Clarence Stanley, President
i Consist« entirely of ADJUSTING
Northwest, and since the active in­
the movable segmets of the SPIN­
Elisabeth Conover, Sec’y.
troduction of purebred cattle there
AL COLUMN to normal position
has been an increase of more than
thereby removing the CAUSE of
60 per cent in the average produc­ Corinth Post.No. 35.Dept. of Oregon
dis-eaae.
tion of our cows.
FOREST L. HOWARD
Meets on second and on
In the United States aside from
CBSOPKACTOB
fourth Saturdays of each
the little assistance rede red by the
month at 1:30 p. ,m in
211-13 Tillamook BmldiRr
experimenal work carried on by the
w. o. W.
Both Rm'll
federal government and the several
Adjustments will be given in the
states, the burden of demonstrating
H. W. Spears, Cem'dr
home if patient •• unable to
the merits of the various strains of
1 purebred dairy cattle in the way of
Samuel Downs, Ad'jt.
not the breeding of dairy cattle is a
pastime or fad, or really Is a worth­
while undertaking, I will say that
from the standpoint of a breeder,
also an operator of a commercial
dairy, the dairy animal of worth Is
solely the product of scientific breed­
ing and development.
The primitive dairy cow scarcely
furnished milk sufficient for her off­
spring the available records show an
average yearly production of 1500
pounds of milk containing less than
sixty pounds of fat. Through scien-
poun|
fat.
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HAVE BEEN REDUCED IN PRICES
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Come in and get demonstration.
It Costs You Nothing
Prices Are Appropriate
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