The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-10-14
Our Cows and their value.

II estimated that the number Of milk
cows in the United States is over IL 600.
| 600, requiring the annual product of 52..
600, 900 acres of land for feed. irving
employment to 650000 men, and reouir.
! in the labor of 866, 900 horses. Estimat.
ing the COWS .at $50 each, the horses $50.
and land at $50 per acre, together with
$500, 600, 900 for agricultural and dairy
implements. and the total amount ia.
| vested In tho industry is $7.219, ,28O. 900.
This is considerably more than the
| amount invested in banking and the
commercial and manufacturing interests
Of the country, which is 81 300, 1864, ,586.
The cattle and horses will require two
tons of hay annually or It's equiya-
lent. If it is estimated that 5000 600
COWS are fed with grain for winter iry.
ing, aud thrt If the horses eat daily six
quarts OF oats or corn during the year.
they will consume 28,3]3,300 tons OF
hay 84,380,000 bushels Of oat meal, l..
$780, 900 tons Of bran, S0,O00,OOO bushels
Of corn, and 100000, ,0p0 bushels of oats.
of total value of 1854, ,459, 400. To this
should be added the labor CT o5O, 600 men
ut $40 per month, $l56, 900, making
the annual valrs of 1904, $50 400, or an
average of $3.50 per cow. Accepting
IL ce, is per gallon as basis for comput.
ing the value Of the milk product and
446 gallons the average yield per annum
this being the average in aixteen States
in 1860, } the $4,000, 900 COWS produce an.
nually 5.793,00O,000 gallons of milk,
worth 1896, 100000. Analysis shows
that 81 pounds of milk contain the
some kind aud amount of nutrition az l
pound Of bonelees beef The total
of no Z.
600 pounds, equal to 1896 ,OO0, ,000
pounds Of boneless beef. About GO ner
cent. of n fat steer is boneless meat, no
that it will require 20,650 900 steers of
400 pounds weight TO produce the
same amount Of nutrition as the annual
milk product. Such fat steers would
sell Mt $500 per cwt., or $6S each-a
total of 81, 300, $50, 900; deduc!ing for
hide and tallow, S26O. 1870, 900, leaves the
meat value S1,O4O, 100000. This gives
the food value of the milk product in the
United States annually. Willard, in
his Practical Daily 'Hrsbandry," SAYS
that milk ut "a cents per gallon Is equiv.
| aient In value to boneless beef mt 0 cents
per pound. 1t is false economy, there
fore, that substituted meat for milk Us an
article Of food. The same authority
(Willard) states that 80 per cent. uf the
milk is used in making cheese and but.
ter, II per cent. is consumed in liquid
state. The Department of Agriculture
1877, estimates there are 1,000,0 900 900
pounds of butter and 30O,0OO,OO pounds
of cheese made annually in the United
States. At 81 pound of milk for /
pound of butter, and 81 for 1 pound Of
checse, the total amount of milk used
would be 29,950.000,000 add Al per cent.
OF the product for consumption the total
production is 50,752,825,00O pounds,
within small fraction of per cent. Of
the estimate made. The caseine in the
milk used for making butter, if utilized
ior r,, cheese, would produce annually
1890, 900, 900 pounds, and besides there
is annually run off in the skimmed milk,
bnttermilk, aud whey 100000, 900 pounds
of milk sugar, which, if saved, would
have q market value greater than the
entire annual sugar crop of Cuba.