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Show MAKING AcfAfflPitf' By CHAS. M. CARROLL i - n - - Duchess Skylark Ormsby, World's Champion Cow Record, 1,205 Pounds of Butterfat; Milk, 27,661 Pounds; Butter, 1,507 Pounds. COW IS GREATEST PRODUCER It is truly said that the cow Is man's greatest benefactor. Hail, wind, droughts and floods may come, destroy our crops and banish our hopes, but, from what is left, tbo cow manufactures manufac-tures the most nouriwhing and life-sustaining foods. For 2,000 years, she has shown her allegiance to man, sharing alike in his prosperity and adversity, responding to all that was done for her, until through hesr development she has become be-come indisensible as an economic factor fac-tor in our national progress. Dairy communities are rich communities. com-munities. The cow produces the most and b?st food at the least cost; she brings in a steady income; she con-rerta con-rerta cheap roughage into profit ; mafrfls the farm worth more; builds big ed barns and good homes means living on the farm. Cow Makes Farm Worth More. There is always an air of permanence perma-nence and prosperity about a well-mau-aped dairy farm. A man feels independent when he knows his income is steady. The dairy business is a cash business. It calls for intellectual activity. The success of the man engaged in it depends upon his using his head, developing his judgment. judg-ment. Dairying builds up the farm. It requires re-quires fewer acres to produce a good living, and consequently lends to closer neighbors and more thickly-settled communities. As land, labor and feed increase in gether one-half of the complete carcass, car-cass, and is not in any sense an estimation esti-mation of the composition of the carcass. car-cass. Princess Carlotta produced proteins sufficient for more than three steers ; nearly fat enough for two ; ash enough to build the skeletons for three, and in addition, 920 pounds of milk sugar worth as much per pound for food as ordinary sugar. It is because of this economical us cf food that the dairy cow and not thv steer is kept on high-priced land. Whew land is cheap and feed abundant th,e meat-producing animals predominate, but when the land becomes high In value and feed expensive the farmer turns to the dairy cow. Duchess Skylark Ormsby is the world's champion butter producer. The results of her 365 consecutive days' test, conducted by the Minnesota Agricultural Agri-cultural college, shows that she produced pro-duced 27,701 pounds of milk, nearly 14 tons, or over 23 times her own weight The butterfat contained in this year's milk yield weighed 1,205 pounds. At 35 cents a pound, she produced about $500 worth of commercial buttei in one year. To her credit of $50( worth of butter must be added ovel 20,000 pounds of skim milk and butter milk, about 14 tons of manure, and i calf, which pay for her feed and care making the $500 a net profit to tin owner. Dairy Products Second in Value to thi Corn Crop. There are about 22.000,000 dair; cows in the United States, and the an nual value of their products roache worked a speedy transformation in thd market. It placed Wisconsin, Illinois and other states on the dairy map and opened up the channels of export to their cheese and butter. Later came the cream separator, which was a great factor in the development of the dairy business. Since that time dairying has been growing very rapidly. Points for the Dairyman. Any man to make success in the dairy business should bear in mind these points : 1. Strict regularity in feeding and milking. 2. Good permanent pastures. 3. At least one silo for winter feeding feed-ing and one with a smaller capacity for summer feeding. 4. Cows that will give at least 4.000 pounds of milk or 200 pouuds of butter in a year. 5. Plenty of roughage; and when pastures fail some concentrates, as cottonseed cot-tonseed meal and gluten feeds. 6. Pure water. High producing cows must have large quantities of water. It is well said that it' is cheaper to warm ice cold water with a tank heater than to allow the cow to warm it with 50-cent 50-cent corn. The water tank should be in a cozy, sheltered, sunny place. 7. Clean and well ventilated barns and healthy cows. Dark. damp, steamy, poorly ventilated barns are ideal places for the development and spread of tuberculosis. Keui'.cfy: 1. Test the cows with the tuberculin test. 2. Cut new windows and let in an abundance of sunlight. 3. Provide proper ventilation. ventila-tion. S. Quietness and kindness. Loud talking, swearing and rough hantlline are not permitted in a well-managed dairy. The average dairy cow of this country coun-try produces something like 3.500 pounds of milk in a year and approximately approxi-mately 150 to 100 pounds of butterfat cow "greatest producer of human: food : IBiiSliliHl' lj PROOUCEO BY . THIS COW - 5g 1 j ;;;N ONE YEAft'wASE0UXL:f::.X-3L I II TO THE FOOD VALUE IN - I j I THE 800IES OF THESE J . jl : . FIVE ' MOO LB. STEERS : jj - ) p This is not profitable dairying. Yot - farmers cannot greatly increase dairy i production unless they apply the scales and Babcock tost to their individual ii cows and find out (lie cows that pas for their feed and those which do not b The co-operative cow-testing association associa-tion enables all the dairy fanners of fl y community to test all their cows. AVitl: - an average of 5 members the cost oi s such an association usually amounts to $1 to $1.50 per cow per year. Benefit of the Ccw-Testing Association. Associa-tion. ) According to Town bulletin Xo. 13 2,0.')6 yearly records from 177 dilferenl dairy herds have been completed in the five cow-testing associations In Iowa which have been organized in the slate since 100!). ; The average cow in the testing associations asso-ciations produced 217 pounds of butler-fat butler-fat per year at a net profit of $oU.77. after paying for the feed at niarkel prices less the cost of hauling. If the l,r.00,000 milk cows of Iowa produced as much butterfat; per year as the average cow in the cow-testing associations, it would mean an increased in-creased production for the state ot nr,.ri00.000 pounds of butterfat poi year, worth, at 30 cents per pound, $3 -J .050,000. The most profitable cow relumed her owner a net profit of $1'Jfi, whil tbo puorost cow lacked !?:J.i.!. of pay L ing for lier feed. c The rmv-t est ing assochit im is 1 1n best method of detecting the loafers it r the herd. It puts dairying on a hush ness'basis, arouses the interest of Hie '" owner, his boys and hired m:in in ttie '1 cows, stirs up local pride by bringinp the people of the community togrlhei " to talk ovit their business mid helps 1 to make farm work enjoyable and in- 0 teres! ing. y Sonic people Ibink that it is a hare r lob to mi!!; cows and care for stock. but we will find it just; the opposite it 1- we will take an Interest in the work v and get our heads in the game. All 0 work is drudgery unless v.m like It v put 1ho best we have into it, and use intelligence. The cow has lifted man T a mortgage and saved the home. ft'? "-s VslTT 1 ' - - These Are Growing Into Money for Us Day and Night and on Sundays. . price, the cow will more and more dis-1 , place the strictly meat-producing farm j animals. She produces human food with greater economy than does the steer, sheep or pig. The United States ( census for 1010 shows an increase of , about 20 per cent in dairy stock while I the total number of all cattle lias de-ireased. de-ireased. j 'It is interesting to learn that Lady , Oak, a Holstein cow, now owned by the Minnesota experiment station, in one day produced in her milk an 4 amount of human food equal t: a calf ( weighing 115 pounds. In a yea;s rec-j rec-j ord this cow produced 00? pounds of t fat, 031 pounds of protein and 3.052 pounds of carbohydrates. This product f was equal to 2oi; ealv weighing 125 , pounds each, or 112 calves weighing 00 pounds each, 2S yearlings weighing 500 pounds each, or 5 steers weighing 1,100 pounds each. These figures imli-j imli-j cate the wonderful cHicioncy of the dairy animal as an economical producer pro-ducer of human food." Princess Carlotta. a cow owned by p the dairy department of the University of Missouri, i;; one year product.-.', imcv human food in her milk than is contained con-tained in the complete carc.-ses of four steers weighing 1,250 p. Mi mis on h. r This statement;. impo.--ible as it see;. is, j Is not only true, but does not eve;-, do 1 full ju-lice to the co-.,-. The solids i': the miik, whb-h are c.,tiplete!y dige.-sii-ble. are eound air.iinM. the entire (-:,r-cass of the steer, only part of which is edible. The tot at a mount of dry ma I ' er in the milk was 2.21 s pounds, ail of which The steer, with a live weight, of 1.2.M) rioma.s, -,.;, d 53 ; -r c. ;.t -i" v.'ai-T in the c..rea-s, h-avitig a total of 5S f p-amds of d ry matt-T. In lids dry matter mat-ter of the steer is Include! hair ami hide, bem-s and tendons, organs of id- j gesiion and respiration, jn fact, the entire en-tire animal, a co;i;derabl" portion of xhich is nut edible. The amdy.-is of the steer's enrca was made from samples taker, af ;er grinding up 1o- the enormous sum of nearly $1,000,000 000. Only the corn crop exceeds th dairy products as a source of incoiu to the farmers of the nation. Neither the production of bidder no cheese has kept up w ith the increase c. population. In 1010 there -were 20 025,000 dairy cows in the Unite Stales, an increase of about 12,000,00 head in 50 years. This wonderfi growth in dairying and cheese mam facturing has added enormously to th material wealth of every communit and state where these pursuits are cat ried on. It has also been a wonderfi aid wherever it Has been conducted h teiligently in conserving the fertilit of the soil. Tins one great advantag to the wealth of the nation can hard! be computed in dollars and cents. Tn 1ST0 practically all of the liuttt and nearly all of the cheese, except i the older states as New York and Ohn were made on ihe farm. Tlx; averay price of farm but tor was about 15 cent and nearly all of it was sold or trade for dry goods and groceries at th country stores. The export market ft cheese governed the price in New Yor and Old", which practically were tli food values loth good gov better ' ;.'''ts : ' ' f ,. '- T-t co w.l M-:-i ;;:,;; . I . ,r-t, rr b,.t ?; ; only riM-or-j-r.MhK-in:; si;j!-s in lic. L:: !'n" j In 1,5 flu-re was a great nwnkenii. - The coining of the refri'-rator |