Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1914 — IMPROVING THE DAIRY HERD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IMPROVING THE DAIRY HERD

This Can Be pone by Better Housing and Feeding—Capacity of Cow Can Be Measured. . There to every reason why the dairyfarmer should seek to improve his dairy herd from year to year. There to no good reason why he should not seek such Improvement. Every man. who to- doing himself, his family and society justice, to endeavoring to improve the condition of his business

An Excellent Dairy Type. from year to year. Every farmer has a desire to be a better farmer, and grow better crops, better hogs, horses and cattle year after year. Since dairying is an essential part of his business, and to that part which for many years supplies him with the money necessary to keep the other parts going, why should he not seek to milk a better cow next year than he milked this year? Aside from the incentive toward Improvement for improvement's sake, there to the added advantage of greater profit each time the cow is milked, which to twice per day for 10 or 11 months of the year. Cow improvement will come, first, through better housing and bet« ter feeding. The capacity .of the cow can then be measured. If she does not reach a standard of profit under good treatment In housing and feeding, the Improvement must then come through the breeding of a better cow.