The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-11-29
PROFITS ON A COW.
encouraging Figures Furnished by Wis
consin Dairyman.

consin Dairyman.
As the question Of the net profits per
.ow is being discussed it will be in
order to give the figures of Charles II.
Beach, of Wisconsin. Allowing two
acres, worth $40 per acre, to COW, he
would devote one to pasture, one-half
acre to hay. and one-half acre TO flint
corn, grown in rows four feet apart,
with hills one foot and a half to two
.eet in the row, and with four to six
stalks in each hill. The most of the
milk is to be made in fall and winter.
He commences with the COW fresh in
October, during which month he will
iced pasture grass, the shocked corn he
aas saved. and ten pounds OF wheat
bran daily. On the 1st Of November
she will go into winter quarters and
iced up to the 18th of May u95 days. a
daily ration of forty-five pounds of en-
silage, ten pounds OF hay and ten
pounds of wheat bran. fed in two feeds,
making, with corn fed in the shock,
five tons of ensilage, one ton of hay,
and $3.50 pounds of bran. On the 10Th
Of May will turn her on this acre OF
pasture and for next 100 DAYS will
feed her daily four pounds OF bran, and
(if she will eat iD ten pounds OF en-
silage, two tons being left from the
winter feeding. Forty days she may
go dry and live on pasture grass alone.
with this additional feed of 2. $50 pounds
of bran, which, at Sl2 per ton, will
have cost $3.50. Two acres of land
has more than furnished feed for the
COW a year.
The COW need not be very uncom.
mon one to make from the LIST of Octo.
Der up to the time she is turned to
grass-225 days-from the feed given
her. 225 pounds OF butter, or one pound
per day. which il good will sell this
year, and almost any year for the last
ten years, on an open market OF Chi
cago, for q cents per pound net. OF
k6O.75. For the next 100 days she
will make 60 pounds, worth 20 cents
or $12; 285 pounds in all. In making
this amount of butter she will have
given 5000 pounds Of milk, worth for
feeding 20 cents per hundred, or $ll.2O
calf 81, making the gross income $s4. 80
from which deduct the price OF brar
fed, $l5. 80, and you have 800 as the re
suit OF feeding the product Of tw'
acres of land to one cow-$l4 for thu
pasture and SO for the acre of corr
and grass, and after paying the interes
on $40 at per cent we have - for the
pasture and $50 for the corn and hay
This reads first rate, and no doubt i
NAV be done. But there is no harm il
remarking that We always found it
good deal easier to make pound o
butter OH paper than to make it in tn
churn. We never had much difficult.
in figuring up the possible yield of tw'
acres of land or of a COW. But We hav
more than once found that after closel.
following the methods which gave Il
the results On paper there was II dis
crepancy between them and the actua
results. All that is described in thi
article is possible, and it is not wort
while for us to shake our heads ant
sayno. But we may console ourselre
in the presence Of our own failure =
reach any thing like these results. b.
| the knowledge that mighty. few com
paratively ever do. Mr.. Beach say
that he knows quite number of dairie
that exceed his figures. Well, We d
not, and We are familiar with goo
,many diaries, too. - Western Rural.