Now they've got the cows
"punching ? time clock."
The time clock adjust! the
automatic feeder while the au
tomatic milker pumps away. As
milk is weighed through the
meter, connected with the auto
matic feeder, each cow is fed
according to her production of
milk.
Less than 20 years ago. Tar
Heel dairy farmers were squat
ting under the cows in the old
type stanchion barn, milkinf
into buckets. Today, most of
them use electric milkers in
automatically cleaned < build
ings.
"Soon the dairyman will
handle 60 cows by himself ?
if he's an able, experienced
manager who know the physi
ology of the cow well," predicts
Dairy Specialist Marvin Sen
ger of North Carolina State
College. "Even today, automa
tion is so advanced that one
man can handle 39-40 cows."
Some, in fact, may be hand
ling more. But Senger believes
they're millking too many cows
too quickly.
Dairying is changing in many
other ways: Feed production,
feed handling, breeding, meth
ods of gauging production,
housing.
"It may not be long before
you'll drive through land that
can be used for crops and see
hardly a cow on pasture," says
Senger. "They'll be living in
dry lots with simple lounging
sheds instead of the big old
barns where each cow had a
stall. Forage crops will be
handled to the cows."
The cows will find their ta
ble set all the time, whether
it's a concrete trench silo full
of sweet forage or a tall "tub"
silo with an auger that churns
out a tossed salad of feed pel
lets and grain and corn silage.
"After raising, grinding, mix
ing and processing his feed,
the farmer will give his cows
silage or grain feed automatic
ally all year 'round," says
Senger.
Or he may buy his feed from
a grain producer, or a feed
manufacturer who delivers in
bulk tanks.
With the fading of pasture
one reason: The high cost of
land), the use of hay is drop
ping, too. Pasture, says Seng
er, fails in hot dry months to
provide all the nutrients a cow
needs. It is also hard to har
vest and store high-quality hay
to furnish nutrients in the
cheapest form.
"The big shift is to corn
silage," he says. "A man gets
more use out of his silo (an
expensive item) if he fills it
two or three times a year in
stead of once as he used to do."
But silage isn't enough for
today's high-producing cow.
She needs mixed meals, per
haps in pelleted form, and
grain and silage three or four
times a day, for higher con
sumption without stuffing her
self.
"Automation in handling
feed is the best development
FIELD INSPECTION.? These men are look
ing a Burley crop over In the field. The
effect of the economy of the county hat risen
from nothing to one and a quarter million
dollars in just 33 years when no tobacco
was set here, according to L. E. Tuckwiller,
Watauga county agricultural agent. A 6%
Increase in burley allotments in the county
is expected to add another $70,000 income
to farmers if prices hold at last year's levels.
of recent years in dairy feed
ing," sayi Senger. "It lets the
dairyman put the cow* on a
regular schedule, by using time
clocks to turn on the u ders."
The pride or shame of a cow
is her record in milk and bul
terfat production. Ten years
ago, if she averaged 240 pounds
of fat and 6,000 pounds of milk
a year, her owner just about
broke even on her. The break
even point today is about 300
pounds of fat and 7,700 pounds
of milk.
Shameful is the record of
the "average cow" in the state:
5.640 pounds of milk a year
? a losing proposition. But the
average cow in that "exclusive
club," the Dairy Herd Improve
ment Association, does her
owner proud at 9,100 pounds of
milk ? she's getting to be a
profit-maker.
Now a new production guage
is vying for a place in the
dairy picture: The percentage
of "solids-not-fat" a cow puts
in her milk.
"This may become more im
portant than butterfat percent
age," says Senger. "We're see
ing more emphasis all the time
on cutting fats out of foods."
"Progress on solids-not-fat
probably will come through
breeding rather than through
feeding, because of the high
quality blood through artificial
breeding," says Senger. "The
top ten per cent of bulls work
for artificial breeding groups."
Artificial breeding has play
ed a big part in raising milk
and butterfat production. It
has been a major factor in the
reduction of the numbers of
Tar Heel dairy farms from 5,
200 in 1955 to 3,800 in 1961.
But fewer farms means larger
herds, for most of the cows in
those 1,400 dairies that went
out of business were sold to
the ones that stayed in.
"The true measure of the
size of the farmer's dairy bus
iness is in total pounds of milk
produced," says Senger. "This
will come through some in
crease in number of cows, but
more through higher produc
tion per cow."
"The family dairy will con
tinue to play an important part
in the dairy industry. Farmers
will continue to supplement
other income by producing
manufacturing milk, too."
I Many Expected To Die
In Holiday Traffic Accidents
Sudden death will blight the
Thanksgiving holiday* for at
least 23 persons in traffic acci
dents on North Carolina's
streets and highways, predicts
the N. C. State Motor Club.
The official highway fatal
ity count will extend from 6 p.
m. Wednesday, Nov. 21, through
midnight Sunday, Nov. 25, a
period of 102 hours.
The state's Thanksgiving traf
fic toll for the same period last
year added up to 27 deaths in
23 fatal accidents, with speed
ing listed as the cause of nine
of the fatalities. Another 631
persons suffered injuries in a
total of 977 accidents.
Heading the list of driver
violations were: speeding, 188;
drove left of center, 148; failed
to yield right of way, 146; fol
lowing too closely, 116; and
Taxation is the proper way
to pay the bulk of the costs of
rearmament; it may hurt but
the pain is not as bad as that
experienced by those who get
shot.
reckless driving, 109.
Thomas B. Watkins, presi
dent of N. C. State Motor Club
and the National Automobile
Association, advised, "If you
and your family have managed
to avoid a traffic accident so
far this year, be grateful and
count your blessing this Thanks
giving Day.
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