_ Colby Lewis's herd.

, Made to dispose of it.

THIS AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY ' ;

Charlie ‘takes in his herd I sug-

gested “You don’t you?” *‘Yes, I do” he re-| oer with emphi isis. Then as his | face spre ad in a grin, he added wife tells .me I like ithe cows better than IT like her.’ They. feed their own grain roll- ed, with the shell just broken, | plus Co-op concentrate, miner- als a salt

e the cows all they’ll

a "1 Royal ‘Escort, “a unit bull—pro-|Her husband ied ‘a ~knee*in—a- eae fi agi Chartie.. And_ this It pays to buy a really good: duced 60,407 milk, in her first/cast from an accident while he - brought the observation

By ‘NEIL A “MATHESON”

really like cattle, |

plus a dipper more.”

They are fed the grain first thing in the morning, then it’s the roughage. This is mostly the farm’s hay and it’s cut and fed just as Sreen .as is possible. With that sort of feed, and the grain “if there’s milk in them, — they'll ~- produce,” Charlie observed.

“These last two years we _ cut the hay before there was a sign of blossom,” he told me.

Last year they were cutting

hay in the latter part of June. One field was cut on a Saturday

[8 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Tues., April 26, 1966. |morning, it was crimped in the |

afternodn’ and baled that even- , ling. “‘It was just like feeding the | lcattle gréfnigrass,"’ he told me. |

A firm believer in ‘‘time-table milking,”” he milks at six in the morning and the same hour in the evening. The cows are al- ways milked in the same rota- tion, and there’s scarcely more than a few minutes’ difference in the time they are milked each

day. /

A young bull is just about a

year old now. A son of Fame, jjand in 1965 for herds with, more |

‘he’s by Thornleigh ‘Texal ~“Su-) preme, an Ontario bull whose semen is available through -the | unit. vious price was $3.00 a vial, J

was told. This bull will be used this year an approximately one- holf of the cows.

The Milligans have 12 milk cows in the herd now. The goal

cows to stay in the Miloview herd. A fairly good looking cow I saw in the barn Saturday is headed for the packers. ‘There's not enough milk in_her,"’ Char- lie told me when I asked why. Next week I hope to do a story on the herd of Lincoln Dewar, New Perth-that topped the Is-

ithan 20 records.—

MORE SNOW IN ALMA AREA |

I noticed that there’s much}

It costs $20 now. The pre-|more snow still on the ground, and in the woods, when I turned

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the corner. at Elmsdale to go to!

Alma, for a call on the Gordon Barbours. They did have more

‘snow in that area, and it'll be a ‘help this year, with moisture so is 15. But they've got tobe good |

scarce. i Later on Gordon and I went on to St. Louis for an ‘Across the | Island’’ story, but that will come

later. That part of the drive was out after dark, so I couldn't see how shortest or “great circle’

being made.

they had profited by the move.

Several of them suggested they would send additional cattle from their farms when future shipments are

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Aircraft flying to Europe start heading north, to fly the route.

the snow situation is in that lo ~ ‘eality.

Returns arrived over the weekend from the three car- loads of beef cattle that were shipped to Toronto.

The general comment from the three or four farme

1 Queen St. Meat Market

with whom I talked was that

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foundation cow when a man is! three lactations for average was enlarging his stable space. from Pauline — she and Starting to buiid a good herd oi BCAs of 177 ‘milk, 172 fat. Her son was also temporarily’ Mrs. Matheson were inter- purebred dairy cattle. Charlie, A year ago Beauty was the crippled. ested listeners — “each Muiligan—I yisited hum at ais top milk producer on the Island Noticing the deep interest’ cow gets all she will eat,

‘Charlie told me, with 19,245 : | pounds. She had 720 pounds fat. ‘ . purchased his} The previous year she produced foundation cow from Colby | 19,313 pounds milk, and her Lewis, Freetown, Liynvenith) BCAs were 194 and 173. Malpeque Pathfinder was miik-| Miloview Ideal Marie, a grand- ing on three quarters when daughter of old Pathfinder, in Charkie bought her. The other five lactations produced 67,780 quarter had. been, soiled when pounds milk, with an. average the udder or the teat was tramp- BCA of 120 milk, 117 fat. ed on. . She has three daughters milk- “But I still paid a long price ing, two with completed lacta- for her, and she was worth it,’’ tions as two-year-olds. Charlie told:me. Mr. Lewis, one | Miloview Buttergir] Leone pro- of the few Islanders to earn a duced earned BCAs of 128 milk, Master Breeder's shield from |126 fat and Miloview Royal Gay- the National Holstein Friesiar lea with 141 in both milk and fat. breeders Association told. Mr. This heifer freshened before she Milligan—he couldn't--purchase-awas_two years old and_ finished better fGundation cow. - Looking with . 12,513 pounds milk, ‘459 | back over thé years he has been fat. } building his herd, Charlie feels |WeEIFER CALF PROBLEM t Colby was right. | One of the big problems in The Pathfinder cow was out of \puilding up a herd of registered Malpeque Model Thorndyke 'cattle is to get good. heifer Bell, the second cow on the Is- calves. ‘‘We've been-getting 95 land to be graded excellent for /per cent bull calves here,” Char- | conformation. Bell was -sold to-je told me-as-we satin his kit- | Premier J. Walter Jones for |chen and chatted. This year to | $800 when she was 14 years old, date they have five heifer Charlie told me. lcalves and three-more cows are I talked to Mr. Milligan be- _left to freshen. That's a definite eause he topped the province improvement. I've been talking in production last year for jof the Milligans and it’s about herds. I wondered what type [time I told you that Mrs. Milli- of cows he has, and how he (gan is the former Pauline Case- feeds. The answers to both ley of Crapaud. She ‘eaches questions are interesting. school in season but there was Mileview Carnation Fame (one time last summer when she | has produced 120,000 pounds {must have wished she was two ef milk in six locations. She jor three persons instead of one. produced 99,266 pounds ~* milk, 3,918 fat in her first five lac- tations for breed class aver- ages (BCAs) of 163 in milk, 167 im fat. Her sixth lactation produced 20,300 pounds milk, on the 305-day test, and “I milked her long enough after that te give her pounds,”’ Mr. Milligan told me. Fame was dried off just three weeks ago. Her picture is on page 3. . She’s graded ‘Very Good”, © The grader wouldn’t make her “Excellent” because of her front udder attachment, but but there’s nothing wrong with it for milk production. | Fame took milk fever last | spring-when.she freshened. ‘‘We got that cured and she took acetenomia,’’ her owner told me. She was milking 80 pounds a day when she went down, and wasn't milked at all for four days, until she got back on her feet. But she- came back up to 102 pounds a day when she got on tHe grass, and ended up with

farm in Mitié ‘on saturday—firmy, ly believés this~bit of advice. Mr. Milligan

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One of Fame’s daughters, Milleview Royal Beauty, Good plus, she’s sired by Deven

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Firing -will~be—-carried--out—at- the Squaw Point Rifle Range. from 1 May to 1 October 1966.

—"Thé-range property comprises the. following area; |

The centre line of fire being e line extending from. the Southern Tip of Squaw Point to approximately the Western tip | of Governor’s Island, and ex- | tending Southerly from the said | tip of Squaw Point over the wat- | ers of Hillsborough Bay at a} distance of one and three eighths miles in depth, and extending | from said centre line of fire,

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