The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-03-11
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MAKE The COW Your I, PATTON md
s PROFIT THE Rely.
The Cow Will Pay q Better Price for Your
Produce Than the Market. Practical Ad--2
M vice sby one. Who Has Learned From Expe-
rienee. Is 5:ss Sss3
5Supt.. Mcclure, Of the Mort heasts
erimental station at Grand Rapids
has issued q bulletin on sdairying and
stock raising in Northern Minnesota, in
which he says: f :.<s vi - :, at
During the summer months, when
COWS can run on pasture, It is easy to-
see that dairying pays, but in winter
when the farmer an sell his bay at $40
or $12 per ton and has to pay from $l8
to- 800 a ton for bran il seems another
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+ SPACE will not permit me to explain
the advantages of winter dairying or
us profitable here as in the southern part
of the state. We cannot bny feed and
make dairying pay, but we canraise It
Fand this is what We must do. Let me
emphasize again that the only way we
can sell our hay and grain is In the form
III Il finished product. The COWS On the
experimental farm this winter are pay
ing $15 a ton for the hay they are fed.
Iu ovher words the butter we sell from
the COWS would pay for the hay at the
rate Of SIS tonI after paying
f)r the gram they get at the market
price. ..~t
The point is this Sell your hay and
grain to your COWS, not to the man in
town. If you care for your COWS rightly
they will pay you more in butter for the
feed they consume than any market.
The skim milk will grow hogs at good
profit and the manure will keep up the
fertility OF the farm so that each year
better crop may be raised than the
l last. Remember this one point. if no
other. II you continue to sell all your
hay and. grain on the market each year
y)u will soon have none to sell. Farmers
who have followed this system for the
past twenty years, even in the Red River
valley, where .the soil is the richest in
the country, have mostly failed and are
now turning to dairying and stock rails
ing. -
Don't let us spend twenty years of
oul lives in trying what other farmers
have failed to make profitable under
more favorable conditions. Go out to
The barn and look at that poor old half
starved, shivering COW You have there
and recognize your salvation. Go on
cutting wood during the. day and get
your farm cleared up, but give the COW a
little more care and attention m )rnine
and evening, and in the course of few
years, when the wood and lumber is gone
! you will have a herd of COWS that will
make you farm a means of support.
That winter dairying pays is shown by
the dairy herd at the experimental farm
During the month OF January the herd
consisting of eleven COWS, produced 24E
pounds of butter valued at % cents pei
! pound, or $3.50.
J, The COWS were fed a. very simple IRA
II ton, mixed timothy and clover hay ano
bran. The Quantity fed was from Is
pounds of hay and pounds of bran pc,
day to 20 pounds of hay and pounds OF
bran in proportion to the size of the COW
and the, quantity of milk she produced
The cost of the feed for the month fol
the eleven COWS was $58, valulng hay at
$ll per ton and bran at $40 per ton..
It will be seen that the net profit fo1
the months Was but $1,000 THIS is due
to the length of time the COWS have beer
ID milk: Five of the COWS hava beer
milking steady for over year, three
were fresh last spring and of the remain
! ing three two were fresh in October ane
Que in December. - .
! The COW fresh in December producet
during The month of January 81 pound
Of butter, with net profit of SIS abov
the cost of feed. OF the two fresh il
: October one produced during Januar
, 80 pounds of butter with a net profit O
SIS, and the other, heifer, produced q
pounds of butter with net profit Of 50
The other eight COWS paid for their feec
. at the rate of eleven dollars per ton TO
bran. The hay was raised on this farm
SO that these COWS, milkin g as long a.
/ they have, have been very good mar
e ket for it.. -. r..
{ Earlier in. tie winter while they wer
} fed fodder corn and manglee, mucl
t cheaper food than hay, they gave con
= siderable profit above the cost of feed
9 Our crop Of cheap homo grown feed wa
9 not sufficient to last through the white
d as we are feeding a number of steer