Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-11-29
COWS
FOR PROFIT
Paper Read by Carl O. Carlson,
OF Erskine at the Dairymen's
Meeting at Crookston

ed such simple job that most any,
one can do 1t. Just throw some hay
into the manger, turn them out to
drink and eat straw.
Buo then what profit do we get
from those cows? Nothing.
Some will say it does not cost
much to keep COW fed on hay alone.
Blt why do we keep COWS and have
so much work to do when we do not
get paid for the hay they eat and
something for our work also?
Ihe common way of keeping COWS
does not give the farmer enough milk
to pay for what it costs to keep them
and..his work with them is done for
nothing, and why should we keep on
working for nothing?
The farmer who keeps COWS should
be up-to-date and feed for profit.
His aim should be to get 81 in re-
turn for every 81 fed in grain.
Cows should be fed we'll. Give
them two times as much as they need
IN order to live. One half of the
feed and roughage the COW needs to
keep her machinery in order, the
other half should 60 into the pail.
This is dividing the profits so as to
give the COW one-half for her work
and the feeder the other half for his
work.
If the COW does not give me as big
share as she takes herself, 1 just
say, bossy we will dissolve partner
ship.
We are milking thirty-oEe COWS at
home. We are feeding them we'll be-
cause we want enough out of them
to pay US the share of profit that a
good feeder should have.
Those thirty-one COWS are now
getting every day,
24s lbs. of grain worth 75c per cwt sls1H
! $50 lbs. corn silage $3.50 per ton 6e1s
! $50 lbs. hay worth $4.OO per ton 80
The total cost OF keeping these
COWS is Al per day.
These COWS are now giving 63l lbs
of milk testing AZ per cent-26H per
cent B. t., worth 25c per lb.-S6. 62H.
From GIL lbs of whole milk there
will be $50 lbs. skim milk worth 25c
per cwt., or $l.3719. This together
with the B. F.-$2. 90. So from the
s3. Al expended we get $S. 90 in return
or a net profit OF 81. SO per day. The
average cost of keeping one COW is lie
per day. The average return in milk
per COW is 25. cents per day. Those
COWS are not all fed alike for some
are milking more than others and
therefore need more, and good
many of them are young heifers that
need extra feed for growth and
development.
Cows that are milking between 20
and 30 lbs of milk per day are getting
8 lbs of grain, 80 lbs of corn silage
and as much hay as they will eat up
(not over Is lbs) making the days
ration COST about II cents, and when
we can get about Is cents in milk fol
the lie worth of farm products, ]
call feeding COWS profitable way o1
disposing of our products.
Don't sell your grain, feed it te
your COWS. If you haul your oats tt
the market you will get only about
Csc per bushel. Feed it to your COWS
this winter and you will get SOC pei
bu.
When all our COWS come in thi!
winter we will have over forty COW!
to milk and we will be selling fee(
to them and we will get a goo(
price for all they can handle, ane
they will get all they can handle
Some people will say, we'll when ;
COW gets such feed and care she mus
milk, and others will think when ;
) man goes to work and feeds up to hi!
COWS S1OO of feed stuff in one month,
it is too much, but is it? When w
feed up 800 worth of feed stuffs w
get over 5000 in cash money and 3;
good deal of skim milk to feed tn
calves and pigs. It pays. But ON
thing l want to impress upon yol
all is to take good care of your COWS
If you cannot, don't keep any. "I
!, doesn't pay.'' 1t is not the fee(
only, the care is just as important
and costs less. Put windows enough
in your stables and let the sun shin,
in. Have comfortable stalls ant
keep your cows clean.
Grow clover and corn. Have
good pasture and do not overstock it
Cut your hay early, and do the bes
you can to get it properly cured.
Seed an early variety of corn, cut
it green when the kernels hav,
I |dented) and keep it green in q sill
and feed green corn all winter.