Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-04-30

amount of straw manure for
keeping trees thrifty and grow
ing, at the same time keeping
weeds down.
d. Don't be in too great a hurry
about getting your corn planted.
The season is early, but we may
yet have a late frost. Take
time to get all your manure out,
fit for the field and prepare your
land we'll.
Wheat Raising and Dairying.
Editor Willmar Tribune:
| notice in a recent issue of the
Tribune an article over the sig
narure OF r. +. Bake, in which
he claims to have proven that
there is more money in dairying
than in raising wheat. He starts
out with the supposition that
one farmer started in will wheat
raising, the other with stock
raising; but his figures show that
instead OF raising stock he went
int" the dairy business. Mr..
Bakke's farms, operations and
results must be the results of his
own imaginations, for l am sure
no such results were ever OBJ
tanned from actual operations
and correct accounts. He con-
fines himself to the necessary
expenses of himself and his neigh
Dor, in starting in their respect
i've specialties, and the results of
one years production. In ma
chinery, stock, feed, help, etc.,
Mr.. b. pays out $1393. HIS
neighbor pays out $1276. Now
let us see. | think Mr.. Il. is en-
titled to something more on the
credit side OF his account. He
He bought a binder for 1925,
instead OF paying 60 cts. an acre
for cutting as Mr.. n. did. 1870
acres at 60 cts. equals $72, Irvine
$1S. Amount he would have
saved by hiring it cut, $71.
Then he paid $50 for labor
outside OF his hired man. Surely
Mr. b. and his hired man should
have done the work on his farm
if Mr.. n. and his hired man did
the work ON the dairy farm with
the 30 COWS. So | think in all
fairness we should credit Mr.. b.
with $50 more. Then SO bush
els OF wheat for bread at so cts.
equals 1875. Deducting these
amounts from $1393 and we
have his expense for running
the farm $1247. According. to
Mr.. b. he sold wheat to the amt.
of $500. Then he is in debt
$747.
Now let us look at Mr.. Neigh
boris account. He can't work
his horses without feed, and Mr..
B. paid out $50 for feed for his
two teams Mr.. n. must pay SIS
for his team. Then we will add
$25 more to his expense account.
Then how can he raise 20 acres
OF corn without a corn planter
and cultivator?? So we must add
$50 for these things. And how
is he going to run a dairy OF &c
COWS without even as much as q
milk pail? He must have milk
pals, cream cans, churn worker
and either a creamer or sepera
tor. All these things, including
salt for the butter and COWS, vii
will not cost less than $3.50. Sc
we must charge up $50 more
Mr.. B. has four COWS and fou1
horses, or 8 head. Mr.. n. has
30 COWS and 2 horses, or 3:
head. Any dairyman will tel
you, and my experience teaches
| me, that it takes as much o.
more grain to feed the dairy cows
as to feed a horse. AS Mr.. B
fed up all the grain he raised OF
20 acres, or 700 bushels of oats
Mr. n. having four times a.
many head to feed, must havefe>
the grain from 80 acres. And a
he only had in 40 acres. he ha'
to buy the grain from 40 acre
more or the equivalent of 14O'
bushels OF oats at 25 cents, equal
1850. So we must debit hin
with 1850 more. Wewill suppOs
that the 10 hogs lived O
skinned milk, but / am thinking
that it would take them NOR
than one year to make 80
pound hogs on skimm milk alone
These sums equal 1915. Thi
added to his expense account {
$1276, equals 1851, his tots
expense.
1t required four COWS to kee
Mr.. BIS family in milk and but
ter, so we must keep our fou
COWS for Mr.. Ms family. Tha
leaves 26 COWS to sell butte
from. Mr.. N. has bought -
COWS and he cannot expect t.
get results from them that h
would from thoroughbred Je
seys that he would pay from 81
to $3.50 each for. II he had sue
COWS he might count on $50 Id
to the COW, but for the averaq
OF 500 COWS, 125 lbs. a year is
, larger estimate than u bushe