The Worthington advance., 1876-08-24
DAIR YING.

SOllE FACTS AND FIGURES FROM A
NAN IN THE u BUSINESS
HERsEY, Aug. 18, 1875.
EDITOR ADVANCED Agreeably to
your request1 will give to your readers
q few facts relating to cheese, making,
butter making and stock raising. If
there were no grasshoppers in this State,
thereis no branch of business which
will pay as we'll as either of the above
mentioned. Let us take stock raising,
for instance. Say a man has 20 COWS,
for which he pays $25 a head, which
would amount to $500. He keeps these
COWS for five years, taking care to see
that they all come in every year. or
nearly all. He raises 20 calves the first
year, 70 the second year and 20 the third.
Now the second year he has 20 two
year-olds to sell, which will bring at
least $50 per head, which will amount
to $40O. In the meantime lie can raise
l good hog to each COW, which will
weigh, when fat, 200 pounds making 40
cWt. of pork, and selling that at SIS will
bring 500 each year. Now let us see
what it will amount to for five years:
Selling off 20 head for 3 years amounts to tl,9Oo
Pork for years, lUO
Leaving OH hand a stock of6o head Of cows
yearlings and twO-year. .Oltls which will
Twenty yearlings OSLO, 200
TfWenty Twenfyy tyws e%Syeaf s;*;5 S'ds @'' s9% s@S
Making sum total OF $3.50
tor the years from all outlay Of $500 and lots Of
If he makes butter Of course lie makes
good deal more money. Let us see
how much. Twenty cows, at a low
figure. will make 10 pounds of butter
per day for six months-wl,icll will be
l84 daYs-which will amount to 1910
pounds. II he sell this for 15c per
pound it will amount to $276 per year,
or $l $50 for five years, which added to
the above 200 makes the snug sum of
S!,5octhls all from capital OF $500,
with lots Of energy and hard work.
NOW the interest OH the $500 at II per
cent. will be $50 per year, or $500 for 5
years. We will knock of the $3.50 for
interest and losses, and we have left
$1,000 as the income of $50. When
the grasshoppers shall leave all this
Will not Interfere with the farming, and
it he only makes living off Of his
farm he has a clear profit Of $1,000,
which is more than any man can make
raising wheat here during his lifetime.
Now these figures are facts, for 1 am
i'll the business and know them to beso.
But let me tell you, my brother farm
ers, you must not expect this return
unless you strive hard for it. It is just
us necessary that you should have a
regular time for milking your COWS as
it is for you to SOW your wheat in the
spring. Milk your COWS ut certain
hour in the morning, and the same in
the evening; see that they have plenty
OF water and plenty of good feed ali
the year round; get up in the morning
before the sun, look after them and
watch them as close as you have the
grasshopper this summer, and my word
for it, you will get your reward. DO
not think of leaving. for wherever you
go there will be something not Just
right. l know it is hard to live four or
five years and lose most I'LL every year.
Let us all, ut least all who can, 70 into
stock raising OF cheese making, some-
thing to use up Che grass, and not feed
the hoppers any longer, and stick to
these beautiful prairies, and he who
shall hold out to the end shall reap the
reward. Next week will give you
few figures III regard to cheese making
and the profits tO berealized therefrom.