Show TRE 1 RAISE BETTER COWS CALL TO DAIRYMEN advice of old applies to conditions away back in the nineties there was a business depression just about as severe as the one through which we are now passing dairymen suf along with iab the others an ag ri cultural writer of that diy daiy told his readers that the solution of the lem lay largely with themselves that what the most of them needed was better co cows cos s here is his striking de of the cows of his day the ai average cow of aday Is n ade wrong her head Is too big and her udder too small her shoulders are too wide ide and her hips too narrow her skin Is hard and he butter too soft she has too much tail tall and tallow and too lit tie ile capacity to make milk mill and butter her ancestry Is seldom respectable she has two intrinsic intrinsically illy good quail ties appetite and constitutional vig or they will do to graft upon the average cow Is an innocent nuisance she is the flip workmanship of the aver age farmer she has not been bred right she has not been fed right she has not been cared f r as she should be and she gets even in the wholesale robbery of the man who made her N w I 1 at she Is the average cow today Is a lot better than the average cow in the nineties but it Is still true that it Is the man with con cows cons s above the average who can best weather a depression proper barn equipment helps milk production with the steadfast improvement in dairy herds through testing breeding and better feadin fe feeding edIn has als also come the increased use of better equipment which not only saves labor but also protects the health and helps increase the average production of the herd dairy barn equipment Is used every day lay in the year and because of its long life has a low overhead the abera e cow in a wisconsin dairy herd improvement association produces nearly 50 per cent more than the av for the state as a whole near ly 80 per cent of the members of these associations have equipped their barns with drinking cups and approximately half that number have barns with ven ti til atlon lation systems more than a thirl I 1 are also equipped with milking ma chines exchange germs in milking pails the most important source ot of germs in milk are the utensils such as palls strainers and the cans that are used for the stor age and shipment of the product the cleaning of the milk pail pall or can must be very thorough otherwise aft er standing empty for a few hours it may way contain uncountable billions i f germs to illustrate at the illinois experiment station some cans that had been well washed and steamed and then held for 24 hours in V warm arm er contained so many bacteria that when they were filled with fresh milk a sample taken out of a can as soon as it had been well stirred contained one million germs per c c or 50 per drop new york dairy progress an interesting report was recently made on cow testing in new york k state by the state farm pureau bureau fed aeration dairy committee in a review of dairy progress press during 1930 it was stated that production records were kept on 10 more cows than in the previous year and in herds close culling of unprofitable cows Is go 90 n on heifers raised have increased in number in the state from la in wb to yearlings in 1910 over more dairymen started keeping records of their herds last year and 1500 in ik scales were sold during the year the total number of cows on test in this way in 19 1910 was 29 now it Is around 40 where are the good cows A tester for an iowa dairy dalry herd im provement pro association relates that he recently spent a day searching a neigh boring county for some dairy cows and he found a situation this year which Is rarely found in normal years the dairymen who belong to test ing associations are not putting a arice rice on their cows for sale why there Is only one logical reason they have bullied out their poor cows and know that the cows they hive have left are paying fair returns for their feed and due to testing they know which cows are good property and they are not going to part with that kind ex hange DAIRY FACTS should be constantly alert in seeking a herd sire to replace the one now in use study pedigrees and records carefully before making a de cislon there are some old time poultry men who nho believe in practicing the old fash tone d hatchet cure for ailments among fowls to keep the flock free from disease in such cases c carcasses should be burned |