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Show j ECONOMICAL TO RAISE COWS ' Found More Profitable and Preferable Than Buying Give Milk Testing High In Buttorfat. By U MonsE.) I have found It more profitable and preferable to raise my cowa rather than buy them. A few yeara ago while living In Pennsylvania, I had some experience along both lines. In two Instances, circumstances necessitated my buying cowa to replenish a dairy herd. In all I bought nine cows, and at the time thought I was buying very carefully. Out of the nine, only two proved to be In any wise desirable, the remainder remain-der being from ordinary to poor, and not profitable enough to keep In the herd, the moat of them being dleiosed. a" i ' Handy Cow Stanchion. of at a discount from the purchase price. In the meantime I had growing grow-ing up six heifers from the best rows In a lame dairy herd of grade Jerseys, and out of a thoroughbred Jersey bull. These were bred to another registered Jersey bull of good individual merit and approved pedigree, and their most promising heifera raiaed to cow hood, what was the result? Almost without exception the cows thus raised were extra good uoes, giving giv-ing milk testing high In butter fat, the average herd producing a pound of butter from much less than twenty pounds of milk, while such rows as I had been obliged to buy would not make tbe same amount from less than twenty-five pounds of milk. Tbe stanchion shown in tbo Illus tratlon. which la selfxplanatory, will be found handy In any cow barn. The i lever attached to the end la used foi ; opening and closing. |
