Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1884-02-13
A Fancy Farmer.

"You don't say A thousand dollars
for COW! well. fool and his money
are soon parted" Ben, said l, Squire
Landers is no fool. | remember when
his father farmed it here, and the
Squire was the smartest boy around.
And he was smart enough to pick out
the best calves from the farmers, and
take them home and rear them, and
when they were cows to sell them
back to the same men who sold them
for two or three dollars, and get City
for them 1t wasn't many years before
young Landers was in law Office, and
then lawyer; and he was smart
enough to gain great case in court,
and that made his fortune. No, he's
no fool. If he gives thousand dol
lars for cow, it is because it Is good
one, and he will get the money back
from it, and he knows the man who
reared that cow fairly earned the
money. Now. look here, Ben, if you
take cow to Squire Landers' young
bull, you pay him $25 dollars for it.
you don't say!" Yes, / do. And
it's worth it, too. Yes, as you say, it
is as much as the cow is worth. You
are right thel e, my boy. But your $25
cow has calf that makes let us say
800 lbs. of butter in year and she
has not cost you, all told, more than
$50. come to you and say, Ben, /
want to buy that cow. You say she
she is too good cow to sell for less
$3.50; she makes as much butter as any
two cows round here Well. this is
true, and | give you the money for
your cow. You get your S25 back very
easily, with $50 more to it, and l get
my money back in two or three years
out OF the butter So we are both
satisfied. Now, Squire Landers' bull
can earn $1,000 a year in that way,
and the first years income, you see
just pays for tie cow. Oh, yes you
see it now, of course. But there are
forty farmers who have calves from
that bull worth $25 each, and every
heifer will make cow worth twice as
much as she cost And in few years
you see all around the marks of that
bull. The butter is more than doubled.
The farmers take fancy to the stock
and the handsome cows get better sta
bles, better pastures, better feeding,
better care all around. In ten years
you won't know the places. The
houses will be painted up, the gardens
will be neatly planted. There will be
new barns, and the old ones will be
enlarged. All the extra money made
will add to the comfort of the farmers.
The girls will be better dressed; the
boys will be better educated, and in
ten years. time it will be hard to say
how much money the whole will be
worth. And Squire landers will be
more pleased to see this than to ham
die thousand dollar bill every day of
his life. So you see he makes money
and the money makes good deal of
comfort all around. Don't you ever
call man fool because you think he
is fancy farmer. There are Short
Horns and Jerseys, Ayrshires and
Dutch cattle all around here, and they
are making money for US; out if you
trace up their pedigrees, Ben, you will
find fancy farmer at the end of the
the line every time. And some of
these fancy farmers can teach us green
horns good many things They
may not beat you and me plowing or
howing corn, but they can tell you all
the ins and outs of it and what we do
it for, and how it should be done, and
that's the biggest part of doing it.