Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-08-18
Oar Cows aad their Value.

1t is estimated that the number of milk
cows in the United States is over l8,OOO,.
600, requiring the annual product Of 81,
0O0, 900 acres Of land for feed, giving em.
ployment TO $50, 900 men, and requiring
the labor of S66, 600 men. Estimating the
cows at $50 each, the horses $50. and land
AT $50 per acre, together with $500, 600, =
600 for agricultural and dairy implements,
and the total amount invested in the in-
dustry is 50, 2,2l9, $50, 600 This is con-
siderably more than the amount invested
in banking and the commercial and manu-
featuring interests of the country, which Is
81, 800, 964, $50. The cattle and horses
will require two tons Of hay annually or its
equivalent. II it is estimated that 5. 200,
900 COWS are fed with grain for winter
dairying, and that if the horses eat daily six
quarts of oats or corn during the year, they
will consume 2S, 3SS, SOC tons of hay, 81,
$50, 900 bushels of corn meal, 81, $40, 600
bushels of oat meal, 1850, 000 tons Of bran,
80, O0o, 600 bushels of corn, and 800, 900,
900 bushels of oats, of n total value of
S3S4, 459, 400. To this should be added
the labor of $50, 900 men at $40 per month,
1856, 900, 900, making the annual value of
1904, 459, 400, or an average of S3S. so per
COW. Accepting IL cents per gallon as
basis for computing the vaiue Of the milk
product and 446 gallons the average yield per
annum (this being the average in sixteen
States in lS60), the 8, 900, 900 cows produce
annually 5,793, 900, 900 gallons of milk,
werth $685., 760, COO. Analy sis shows that |
pounds of milk contain the same kind and
amount Of nutrition as pound of boneless
beef. The total weight of the milk pro-
duct is so, 7S2, COO, 900 pounds, equal to
IA, 495, 600, 900 pounds of boneless beef.
About so per cent of fat steer Is boneless
meat, 50 that it will require 90, $50, 900
steers Of |, 400 pounds weight to produce
the same amount of nutrition a. the annual
milk product. Such fat steers would sell
at 81. 80 per cwt., or $6S each-a total of
81, 800, $50, 600; deducting for hide and
tallow, $3.50, 1870, 900, leaves the meat
value 81, 040, 100, 900. This gives the food
value of the milk product in the United
States annually. Willard, in his '.Prac-
tical Dairy Husbandry," says that milk at
"a cents per gallon is equivalent in value
to boneless beef at cents per pound" 1t
10 AoioS SSchohiyf ehSASASASp thot ouoothdt-
ed meat for milk as an article of food. The
same authority CWillard) states that 30 per
cent of the milk is used IN making cheese
and butter, Al per cent is consumed IN
liquid state. The Department of Agricul-
ture, 1877, estimates there are 1000, 000,-
600 pounds of butter and 800, 900, 900
pounds of cheese made annually In the
United States. At 81 pounds of milk for
pound of butter, and 81 for pound of
cheese, the total amount of milk used
would be 29, $50, 900, 900, add Al per cent
of the product for consumption, the total
production is 30, 752, 1925, 900 pounds, with
in small fraction OF l per cent of the
estimate made. The caseine in the milk
used for making butter, if utilized for cheese
would produce annually 1880, 000, 900
pounds, and besides there 10 annually run off
In the skinned milk, buttermilk, and whey
200, 600, 900 pounds of milk sugar, which,
if saved, would have market value
greater than the entire annual sugar crop
Of Cuba.