GLEANINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7867, 1 August 1911, Page 2

GLEANINGS

Success is duo more to good management than to anything else. If you do not know cows do not buy one; get a friend who understands to do the purchasing for you. It is not “more acres and better land” that men need, .but more and bettor Clock, more manure, and more intense cultivation of the land they have. According to the last year book of the U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, there are 21,720,000 milch cows in the United States, ancl these are worth .C!10,-10: : ),OC'fl. The magnitude of the industry can perhaps bo best understood when it is considered that these cows produce yearly about .£200,000,000 worth of dairy products.

It will mean a loss to tho farmer to havo the cow afraid of him. It is a loss every time she is frightened. To run a cow to pasture is like throwing money away. A cow in any way worried will not do her best. The cow that is made a pet of will make money for her owner. The milk of a frightened or abused cow is unwholesome.

Tho great ruling proposition with the breeders of dairy cattle should be tho elimination of the scrub hull. The dairy farmer \must he educated up to tho point where ho will seo that his future as a dairyman depends upon breeding from a pure-bred dairy bull only. Surely there is no missionary wo can send out for the conversion of men to the dairyidea, liko a well-bred bull, and a fine herd of well-bred dairy cows would clinch tho argument. Tho breeders of dairycattle are not competing with each other half as much as they are with tho scrub bull. lie is the follow they need to get after.