Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-10-22

I ny reading books on agriculture anu
agric Iltural papers. He had got, as
Rosa expressed it, "high-ker-futin
Ideas" on farming in general and the
COW Ia particular. One proof of this
was In the action of Johnson when he
sold eff all the cows he had and took
the price and put 1t into a single COW
Of great milk and butter producing
capacity. Ross said that this was a
piece Of fOolishness that could have
come only from Johnson's continual
reading Of agricultural papers. Any
way. every farmer knew that a COW
was COW and that was all there was
10 it. and the man that would go into
fancy stock Of that kind was simply
wasting his money Why, If he had
only put his money into high-bred
hunting dog, there might have been
some reason to it.
However, Johnson continued to milk
mis- COW and Ross did the same. Both
sent their butter TO the same market
and got about the same price per pound.
as tile butter Johnson made was from
only one COW and therefore could not
we'll ne sent to a distant market or to
fancy customers. Johnsons wife kept |
account Of the receipts and expendi-
lures ia a systematic manner, and Mrs.
Ross, wishing to show that common
COW would do as much as a high-hred
one also kept account on her side,
though Mr.. Ross said that that, too,
was piece OF fOolishness. At the end
NJ "a.
her husband that the cost of keeping
theiy COW had just equalled the re-
cepits, while the Johnson COW had SIT
Or thereabouts standing to her credit.
Ross went ont into the country and
paid SIS for another COW, and Mrs.
Rosa hopes we're accordingly raised.
But The two COWS cost about double the
cost of one, and in two months more
le found from his wife's accounts that
he two COWS had made a profit of only
'i.S5, while the credit to the Johnson
'ow was 500. Ross this time bought a
i2O-cow. but at the end of another
month the profit for the three was but
Y 90, while the Johnson COW had raised
he limit to S33. Ross determined to
'eat that cow if he had to buy a whole
lerd. SO about once a month he would
ring home a new cow, generally
fought cheap at some auction
AT the end of eighteen months Ross
lad herd OF ten cows, all working as
as they could to beat the
ohnsoa cow. The product was great
y increased in volume, even though
me or two OF the animals had run dry.
But the expense of keeping them was
considerable. and it seemed to Ross
hat all the money he took from the
,rocer he paid out again to the feed
nan for feed. but this was not quite :
o. Moreover it had become a great
urden with the Ross family to milk
en- cows twice a day and otherwise
are for them. Mrs. Ross suggested
hat they had better hire a man to J
elp. but Ross WINGED at the PROPOSE |
ion and said that the profits would not 9
1arrant it. AT the end of the time 1
pecified the Rosses took an account of t
took, and found that the last two cows '
ad proved a losing investment and l
hat now the balance was just a trifle i
n the wrong side of the books 1t had {
cost more to keep the ten cows a
han they had brought in. after figur- I
lg the money value Of the feed that G
ad been raised on the farm. They I
earned that the johnson COW had in '
reased her net balance to S79.37 during '
he eighteen months. This was the +
sst straw with Ross. He sent nine OF )
Is cows to the butcher and gave up 6
airying except for home use. He says d
here is no profit in dairying. and he .
nows it by actual experience. Being h
sked how 1t was that Johnson made n
D much from one COW he replied: "Oh. n
nat was bull-headed luck" h
Diarrhoea and Its Causes D
Having seen under tho abOva had