Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-02-27

They would have the public believe from
their malicious and garbled statements
that the Association does not paw its los
ses in full Whereas this Association
does pay every loss promptly on receipt
OF proofs and for the full amount named
in the policy.
The Association at this date has not a
single claim upon its books unpaid, nor
one dollar of Indebtedness
Respectfully, JAMES R, PITCHER,
800 s 322 Broadway, New York, Janu-
airy, 1884.
THE COW, THE CALF AND THE PIG.
AT the meeting of the Farmers Alliance
in the new courthouse, Saturday after
noon, Frank Richardson read the article
appended below. For good, practical
common sense, and as satisfa> tory out
come of intelligent experimenting, the
results set forth in this paper must COM
mend themselves to the thoughtful at
tention Of our farmer readers. The paper
was read at Mankato, Feb. 1916, by H.
B. Gurler of DeKalb, III j
have taken these animals in connec-
ton, for the reason that they naturally
go together in dairying. I have named
them in the order Of their Importance in
the new parts of the west. If Twas talk
ing to Illinois dairymen~I should change
the order to read the COW, the pig and
| the calf.
The COW, if properly cared for, is the
most profitable animal on the farm, but
if looked upon in this way, the horse, the
steer the pig, the sheep and the COW, and
is left day and night around the straw
stack, and is compelled to go 40 to so
rods for ice cold water or 60 without, she
will not be profitable.
When commenced dairying my COWS
would average only $50 lbs. of butter to
the COW annually, which could not fig
ure in way to satisfy me, and I COM
menced to test my COWS by weighing the
milk and testing it for cream by setting
some of each cows milk in test tubes or
per cent. glasses. found the weight of
milk to range from 10 to 40 lbs per COW,
and the per centage Of cream to range
from Z per cent to 20 per cent.
learned that the COW which produced
40 lbs of milk per day produced just ID.
of butter per day. She was the pei
cent. COW.
| learned that the COW which gave Is
lbs. of milk per day produced more butter
than the cow that gave 40 lbs Of milk
per day
This butter test I applied to all the
cows in my dairy, and I think it is the
only reliable butter test. If farmer is
selling cream by the gauge, the weight Of
milk and the per centage of cream weulC
be sufficient test. But predict thai
cream will soon be bought mostly by it,
butter value, and there is a great differ
ence in the butter value of cream.
But must return to my dairy I com
menced to weed out the improbable cows
and found that had some that would
not more than pay for the feet
they consumed, and that I had Others
that would pay $50 per year after payins
for their feed. How does that compare
nothing against $50? 1t certainly set M
to thinking, and to selling COWS to thu
butchers, and to buying COWS, and t.
raising the heifer calves from my $6(
COWS. In this way, and changing from
summer to winter dairying, 1 increased
the butter yield of my dairy in few
years from $50 to 266 lbs. of butter PEI
COW, and the profit after paying for foot
consumed, was increased from $15 to 81
per COW, an increase of 200 per cent.
: For the year ending June list, $780,
received 1928 worth of milk from every
dollars worth of feed consumed by my
cows.
felt paid for the time and labor spen
in this work [ thought better of myself
l began to look upon farming as bust
ness that has as great opportunities as mer
camille business. And 1 still think there
is more room to improve and do better or
i the farm than in any other line of bust
! that there is more profit in winter dairy
ing than there is in summer dalrying, il
the dairyman has comfortable quarters
for his COWS. BY having your cows calve
in the fall you are milking them when the
milk is of the greatest value You have
the least milking to do in the summer
months, when the labor of securing the
crops is driving You have more time to
test your COWS, which you should certain
~ do. And when you find COW that is
not making you a reasonable profit, feed
her what grain she will eat, and milk he,
at the same time, get her fat for the
spring market, when she will sell for a
better price than at any other time in the
year: This is the only way have found
for disposing of my discarded cows at a
meal and wheat bran, one half of each bv
measure. l feed some wheat middlings
and some rye feed. For hay, early cut
clover and timothy, and think the more
clover the better, if cut when in full bios
som, and is we'll cured. I feed wild hay,
oat straw, corn stalks or any other coarse
fodder in the racks in the yard. I find
that my COWS will cat considerable coarse
fodder in the yard if they have all of the
best hay they can eat in the barn. A
plenty of freshed pumped water is es-
sential, Ice water does not increase the
flow of milk. Several years ago one of
our most successful steer feeders propos-
ed to argue with me that there was as
much profit in feeding steers as there was
in feeding COWS. gave him the figures
of my previous years work with my cows,
when he admitted that he could not show
a profit to compare with it, and made nc
further talk upon the subject
We have one patron that we paid $S7 .Oe
per COW last year. The time was two
days less than year.
One of our patrons kept an accurate
account of the feed consumed nv his dairy
of fourteen COWS last month. For grain
feed, $4,000; for hay, $21.7O. Total cost
of feed, $6370. The COWS produced
1900 pounds of milk, worth $3.50 per 1O(
lbs, or $115.50, leaving a surplus afte1
paying for feed Of $5l.SO, or, in othe7
words, one dollars worth of feed pro
duced 81. 81 worth of milk. Feed is very