The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-01-14
Does Dairying Pay.

Alta recent meeting of the Cecil (Md.)
Farmers Club, held at the home OF Frank X.
Cherry. near Principle, the host read the fol.
lowing interesting paper on Does Dalrying
Pay:
Now this subject may seem strange one
to you and may be more SO before l have
flushed The question | want to talk to you
about or ask for your ideas on IS: Does dairy
ing nav on land that is high, by that | mean
in fertility aud high 10 price? Now let us
compare what 100 acres viii produce If dlyid-
ed INFO six fields of I6 acres. allowing four
acres for buildings, etc. Now we have 10
acres corn, 80 acres hay, 81 acres wheat, 10
acres oats, 8 acres potatoes.
I6 acres corn. 60 bus. per acre-960 bus.
"a so cts.-S4S0.
80 acres bay. II tons per acre-4S tons a.
Sl0-S4S0.
80 acres wheat 25 bus. per acre-so0 bus.
a. IS cts.-S6OO
10 acres oats, 40 bus. per acre 400 bus. a
80 cts.-Sl20
acres potatoes. 100 bus. per acre-600 bus.
"a 40 cts.-S240.
which amounts to 1920 for the grain alone.
Now We can count the straw-Oais, ton per
acre. $50; wheat, half ton per acre, $50; tod
der 8 cts. per bundle, $50 grand total Of
81. 100.
We have sold all we have raised on the farm
and fed nothing except to our farm teams, aud
naturally we say our farm will get poorer oy
not keeping stock and making manure All
well and good as far rs the manure goes. but
| will venture TO say that not one tenth OF the
manure thai is hauled to the fields IN this
cnunirv is hauled there in the right SHAPE AMI
condition.
Do not imagine | am no advocate OF barn
ward manure, for ! am, but do not believe
IN making barn manure when by so doing you
make your farm poorer, as | will endeavor 20
show YOU Now the reason We put on barn
manure il TO make the ground rich and mel
low and make hunus. All right, SO Ear, but
contend that we can make il mellow, JAS as
rich and full Of humps by blowing down COW
pea, etc. etc. OF course we have been told
this by Experimental Stations, etc, but what
/ am trying to get at is in my own case. here
ON nv own farm as / will try TO show you by
comparing the figures in selling all the crops
and blowing down green and dead nitrogen
growing crops to enrich your farm.
On this 100 acre farm We viii keen 10 COWS
that average 200 lbs, Of butter which is
high averagel az % cts. per H., $500; 20 hogs
that average SIS. $500. These cows aud hogs
eat. let US say, two thirds of the corn. which
Is $40 bus, which leaves 500 out Of 200, or
money value OF $500 for corn consumed; they
eat one half the hay, or "a tons, o. S240' We
feed one half the oats, or 200 bus, "a eco; ~e
use all the wheat straw at $50, for the manure.
(which is thrown out 10 leach for SIX months
and Jus, the bulk drawn 10 The Geld, where If
the manure was hauled out to field AS soon rs
made il would be worth ten times as much MS
when left TO leach. In addition to feeding
ope.balf the hay. two thirds the corn, one
half The oats. we have 10 buy, let Us say. .
tons brapCd SD, Sll0; ? tons gluten a $50,
$50; let Us add $50 for calves, as We have to
allow for COWS losing them and n COW or Two
not catching.
Let US see how oar two accounts com
pare BY rough estimate have made and
not counting the wear aud tear aud wages and
for using 10 acres for pasture instead Of farm
ing and other incidenlsls. find that by farm
ing and not running dairy there Is differ
ence in favor Of farming Of $500.
This is in regard to farm that is not within
a reasonable distance of town or city where
you could get first price, and not the leaving
after the middle man. outside men and all
others get a slice before you. Il is the dollar
we are all striving to get and if we can get IL
easier one way than another and not make our
working capital poorer which Is our farms
why not do so2
You will find that when high land IS not
pastured ever, though it has no barn yard
manure and the grass. etc, dies down, they
will cut larger swsrth than II the land was
pastured bad just such case this Tear
| had field Of grass that my friends said
would cut u tons per acre. Could | le' il
stand? No, although il had let il stand il
would have cut almost 20 tons, and il has been
in grass FIVE years and has not had pound OF
any kind of fertilizer on It in that time bat
pastured every year sitter harvest. SO having
no meadow 10 turn my cows in had 10 turn
them in field that would have paid me "a
hay, say $3.50 70 be safe. when the whole
bunch Of cows did not pay me $40. Aud Il IS
not onlF this year. but every wear, and that Is
why ask do you think farming pays on good
high tillsbe land