The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-06-12
ARMERS' COLUMN.
FARM NOTES.
ON the American Agriculturist for Jilne.)
Keeping One Cow

ON the American Agriculturtstf for Jnne.)
Keeping One Cow
By MORE. FAMILIES SHOULD KEEP ONE -
now 1T PAYs-AN EXAMPLE.
business man in New York, on being
. .ibled 70 get good milk for young children |
bis family, took our advice the latter part |
II the winter, and, SO TO speak, went into |
. dairy business on his own account The |
hit will be instructive to tens of thousands |
Families in cities and villages. He had |
pasture grounds the only convenience
1lg u rOomy stall in a carriage barn, with |
oportunity for cow to sun herself and to
= limited exercise in a small area, say l |
4 20 feet, at the side of the barn, and this |
seldom used. The stall was kept clean
1 neat, with fresh straw litter, and the
NJ has remained in excellent health and
Ior. Chewing her cud and manufactur-
4 milk seem to give all the exercise need
a Her feed has been baled hay, cut in a
+ all hay cutter and mixed wet with corn
BAL, bran and shorts, with some uncooked
alto parings, cabbage leaves, left over rice,
meal, ETC., from the kitchen.
n laborer is paid one dollar week to milk
1 feed and brush her night and morning,
| take care OF the stable, and he is allowed
excess of the milk she gives over twelve
irts day. He prepares a mess for her
bn feed, which is given by one of the boys
school when he comes home to lunch.
e COW Is a grade, probably three-fourths
-sey and one fourth common blood. Her
k is rich, yields abundant cream, and, as
owners family say, " Is worth fully
tlble any milk we ever got from the best
Tx dealers" a neighboring family gladly
Ees six quarts day at seven cents a quart,
h would willingly pay much more if it
Ire asked, and other families would be
ppy TO get some of it at ten cents a quart.
! six quarts are kept for home use, and it
valued far above seven cents a quart, and
rth more than that amount in the saving
butter in cooking, making cake, puddings,
So it is very low estimate to call the
hole milk worth seven cents quart. No
could deprive our business friend or his
nily of their good, home produced milk,
IL cost ten or twelve cents quart. An ac-
rate account is kept of the feed; the man
charge orders at the feed store anything
desires for the cow, and it is all put down
"pass book" Here are the figures for
b days past:
\ cows DEBIT AND CREDIT FOR 100 DAYS.
DR..
50 lbs. bnled hay, at S22 per ton: ..$ 35
10 lbs. corn meal, at 81 50 per cwt.... l3 so
90 lbs. bran, at 81 80 per cwt........ 20
10 lbs. fine feed, shorts, 81 5j per cwt. 8 10
20 bundles of bedding straw, at 10 cts 90
Paid for care and milking, IL week. II so
rotal expense for 100 days. Si7 As
Cr.
poo ats. best milk, az qts per day., Ss4. 90
Money profit in 100 days. ............. $50 55
Or, to put it another way, the 600 quarts
Id actually brought in $42 cash, and the
tire 600 quarts used at home cost $5 As.
be COW cost, say 500. The entire care,
hich was not paid in the surplus of milk
fove twelve quarts per day, is charged in
'.e expenses above. The manure produced,
so!d, would more than meet interest on
. st of COW, and any depreciation in value
4 increasing age. Allow the above aver
te to be kept up only 200 days in year,
Id at the end of that time suppose the cow
sold for half price (S3250) and fresh
BE substituted, there would still be gain
a $4,000 for 200 days, or for a year a profit
H$7410.
With good feed the $Gj COW will keep up
Full supply of milk at least 20 weeks, and
ID breeding. Sell her then and buy an
+ her fresh COW for SG5-a loss of $50 a year,
he above liberal allowance of S47.4 fo1
ed and care 100 davs. amounts TO Sl73 IA
: hear. Adding the loss of $50 for purehas-
- q two fresh COWS, makes the total annual
Il pense S223.l7. This would make the TO.
h supply of milk, u quarts a da, "A 3SO
hartsj, cost about cents per ouarf or moi
'6ite 81 cents for 10 quarts This is not nm
Exaggerated estimate for S65 90 COW. re-.
.ewed every 26 weeks, The teedhnd care
ay be very much less thnn the ohove s47
d Der ron dhys, bv saving all waste foods
kitable for a COW. and by securing nos,nr
be- 7 or & months. and esneciall when ,
bw can be cared for by members Of Cami
thus saving S52. 90 a year TAKING th,
buntrv ass. Whole nrohahIv S50 viii 1rd;,
Aarily 'bny a COW that will. on fair feed nv
age 10 to 10 quarts per dov for tbe FIRST 81,
opths after calyinp.
n,,s,r,r,,u, ,.uru uo.,
LET VILLAGE RESIDENTS KEEP COWS.
Every family on farm of cour e keep
he or more cows, but we claim that th,
wellers in villages, and very many in cite
hn, and should, each keep a cow. GooC
Hlilk IS The best OF all food for young chill
Fen, and it goes great ways in saving but
II bills, and in the preparation of palatabl
ourlshing food OF many varieties. Th
oove actual results show the economy o
"eeping ones own cow. Two TO five lami
*es, according to size and numbers, car
adiiy unite in having one cow kept, di
lding the milk and expenses, and thus al
ays haye good, pure, rich milk at yer,
loderate cost. The suitable refuse from tn
+ itchens Of three or four families would g
good way towards reducing the cost o
Purchased food. In rural villages summe
asture can be obtained near at hand which
ith daily feed of good meal will lurnisl
large supply of rich milk at low cost.
by can be secured at a small price to driv
be cow TO the pasture in the morning, an,
Ptnrn her at night to the stable. A stabl
stall can always be obtained at a triflin
Hnt, and be kept clean. There are alwav
ANY take the manure away SO irequentl,
70 prevent II oeihg nulsance,or disagree
W. ho,.. - do,,Lt a., 81 -.,
llaoes n,ann nm ract,rina d aowns a,' o,o .o'uon's
~ ~. 'owns, e'c'' can o.
Dundant suppiy of pure rich frosb beaIth
/ milk at less than three cents ner mar
nd at the same time add greatly m tLai