The Kanabec County Times

SHORT LESSONS IN DAIRYING
A series of 52 articles by
Land O Lakes
Creameries and
published by the Mora Co-operative Creamery in the interests
of its patrons.

LESSON XIII
CARE OF THE COWS: A farmer selling a grade dairy cow
recently for $175 showed the buyer the record the cow had
made through a Cow Testing Association of over 12,000 pounds
of milk and over 400 pounds of butterfat. He said to the buyer,
she will not make that record again out at a straw pile most of
the day, or fed on timothy hay and corn stalks.

The cow had been fed alfalfa hay, corn silage and ground
oats and barley. She had a drinking cup beside her stall and
got salt and a little mineral every day. She was kept in a com-
fortable barn. She was turned out of doors every day while the
barn was being cleaned out and bedded if the weather was not
too cold or stormy. She had sweet clover pasture in summer.
Her great grandmother was a common cow but her three near-
est sires were pure bred registered dairy sires.

The question may be seriously asked if a grade cow at $175
is a reasonable purchase. A 400-pound butterfat cow, is, in the
hands of a first-class dairyman; but as a rule a first-class
dairyman will breed such cows instead of buying them. Success
lies more surely in breeding than in buying. Mark this, that no
farmer ever got anywhere in building up a profitable dairy herd
without using a pure bred registered sire of the same breed
year after year.

FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY
MORA, MINN.