Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
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Il. b. Terry in Practical Farmer
replies TO some inquiries of an Ohio
man as follows:
Twelve years ago you went into
debt mostly for u fifty-acre farm,
which cost you $500. You have
paid out and built a large barn and
Sl,50J house, and paid for them cash
down, and this by what you call
mixed farming. You have done well,
very well. But you say you are
thinking of changing and keeping
COWS, making butter, building silo,
etc, and asking whether you would
better and how many COWS you can
keep. and also whcthcr ! think the
berry business would pay better.
First my friend be SLOW TO change
at all You u. Q doing very we'll. BE
quite sure you can do decidedly bet
ter before making any change. II
you can get say 20 cents a pound the
year round, or more, for your butter,
dairying uld bs made TO pay we'll.
But it will be very combining business,
seven days in week. 1t will cost
you a good deal TO get well fixed.
You will want at least good selected
common COWS and a frst-class Jersey
male, then you can work up. You
should have n separator good
dairy house, ice house, power OF
some kind TO run your churn and
separator, pump, water, etc, "a milk
test. and "a silo will be nice TO save
your corn in. You can get along
without this, however, for IA time, by
taking good care OF your fodder and
cutting it by h rise power in the win
ter. II hen you want entirely com
Portable quarters for your cows,
where you can save all the manure.
and, may saw it? You want TO he
just the man for the business. To
make the most in thi, line You need
to be quic: and gentle with
the cows. always; you want
10 love them, so when
you are around the stable they will
give more milk just from looking at
you. And you want TO be around
the stable daily and constantly. Then
if you d your part all around you
may work up 10 $50 or 500 per COW.
You have GOO land evidently and
you "can" keep twenty or thir-
ty or even forty COWS in time. buying
only bran and oil meal or cotton seed
meal. The way corn grows on the
bottom land in your country, you
ought to raise enough corn on an
acre TO keep a COW nearly two years,
winter and summer. except that she
would need a little clover hay or
heterogeneous food. ! would raise the
best calves and thus improve my
stock. And you can raise your farm,
too, or keep it up. Butter takes lit
tie value from the soil. a ton has
but forty eight cents of fertility in it,
and not that, probably, if you are
very clean about milking. A ton of
butter should bring you 500. A ton
of timothy hay may sell for 80 and
it takes from the soil On the same
basis 50. 3S worth Of fertility.
The berry business is good one,
II you work to the top and get extra
choice fine fruit to customers in nice
shape. | don't mean that you work
the nice berries to the top of the
package, but that you have unusually
fine on top and just the same all
through. Great care and skill will
pay just as we'll. perhaps in this line
as in butter making, if you are stu.
ated so that you can readily hire
pickers enough that live near by, and
have the market within rea h. Lots
of money can be made from fine
Strawberries, but you have got ia
love them, the care of them as well
as to eat them. and never tire for one
day of waiting on them any moro
than you would waiting on the cows.