The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-07

COW under consideration is regarded as
Delng little above or a little below this
average. But the man who wilfully de-
parts greatly from the established price.
Wno' IN TACT, Is courageous enough to buy
without reference to this, and 10 offer a
price exactly in accordance with what he
deems to be the earning value of the COW.
IS APT TO DC held up either as an ignoramus
or as man who has more money than
he knows what to do with.
IL costs no more 10 keep a good COW
tnan IL does to keep poor one. The fixed
charges OF maintenance viii be the same
Tor COW producing two pounds of butter
per week, as for one that produces six
pounds IL will require very careful
management to make the two pound COW
pay even for the food consumed, without
reckoning the value of the labor or the
interest on the investment, no matter
how cheaply she was purchased. While
that COW would be "a poor Investment at
SO, the SIX pound COW would be cheap at
Ia 500, for she would repay the cost of
maintenance and earn an excellent annual
dividend on her cost besides. sYet there
are not many dairymen educated up to
the point where they would think of pay
ing 500 per head for their dairy
herd.
One point which justifes them in this
view is that dairy COW is not long lived !:
that Is, a comparatively few years marks
the period of her dairy usefulness. And
after the dairy comes the butcher, and in
selling the COW for beef there is a great
shrinkage of the original investment.
This drawback might be remedied if we
could have a good reliable live stock in
surance company. But there are difficult
ties IN the way of insuring stock against
accident, disease and death that as vet
have not been successfully overcome
The only way then for the dairyman who
feels it TO his interest to keep cows of ex-
traordinary value IS to insure himself.
ms can be done in a great measure by
maintaining thoroughbred dairy herd
where The progeny of the cows will be
continually growing into animals of equal
value with the original members. Then
whether for sale or for use the dairymau
Will continually have cows, produced at
not much more cost than. common stock.
to take the place of and to main
tam the value of the original herd. With
thoroughbred herd and by careful OBJ
servance of the principle of selection,
the producing capacity Of a dairy can be
maintained at steady point easier than
by any other method. If one depends
upon filling the vacancies in the dairy by
purchase, no matter what price he is
willing to pay, it will always be ex-
tremely difficult to secure COWS of the
greatest producing capacity There are
some men wise enough to keep such cows
when they have them, to hold them al
most above price, or at least to
know their value so well that
no legitimate price will tempt them
to sell.
This matter Of the value of COWS will
bear the analysis of figures A herd of
twenty cows might be gathered up at an
outlay of $500. The same number of good
cows might be secured at a cost of s., 900.
In the latter case to come out even the
dairy would have to earn the interest
upon the additional 81, 500 in excess of
the ordinary earnings from the first herd
AT g per cent. this would amount to $50
per annum. Three hundred and sixty
pounds of butter, or eighteen pounds ex-
ira per COW, would pay this charge. Does
any man believe that the latter herd
would not produce more than this differ
ence, and consequently have a greater net
earning power than the first once