The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-05-17
DAIRY CHIPS.
Suggestions to the Farmer who Desires
to Make Money From Cows.

Suggestions to the Farmer who Desires
to Make Money From Cows.
The live, thinking, hustilng dairy
man, the man that is willing to read,
think, work, calculate and give plenty
of the right kind of feed and good
care to the COW is not satisfied with
the double purpose COW that will
make $50 pounds of butter annually,
and bring forth a good, beefy calf.
No, he wants a COW that will make at
the very least $50 pounds of butter,
so he will have some cash to pay for
feed, milking, care, and a nice profit
besides.
1t seems SO very strange that per-
son will 60 to all the trouble Of keep
ing COWS and milking them and be
satisfied with so little returns.
In starting with the dairy let the
foundation, which is the COW, be of the
right kind, then build barns, silos
and places to store her feed to &C.
commodate her, and the battle will be
more than half won.
Don't forget a nice patch of both
early sown peas and oats and early
planted sweet corn to supplement the
pasture with after awhile. It will
tend to keep up the flow of milk and
makes very nice feed to use in the
stable, when the flies get bad outside.
How is the seed corn sprouting?
Don't neglect this one thing as it may
cause more trouble than you look for.
An acre or even one half acre of
peas, oats and rape sown in the hog
lot will yield big returns for the time
and expense of seed and sowing.
We believe a COW will eat much
more or at least some more roughage
if she is fed in such way that she
does not have quite all she wants at
each feed.
If a man is going to the trouble to
milk COW why not milk one that will
make a profit rather than stick to the
one that will barely pay for her keep,
Or possibly make a slight profit of
from 50 to SIS annually?
Give me the COW that will make 275
to 400 pounds of butter year and the
beefy calf will take care of itself.
Which is the best investment, ten
cents invested in feed for dairy COW
a day and get a pound of butter worth
20 cents, or 20 cents invested in feed
for a steer for a day and get two
pounds of beef worth 10 cents? That
is just about the way the thing is
working at the present time.
Don't let any of the low places go
to waste this year and grow up to
weeds if they can be plowed and
planted to fodder corn before that
time.
Don't turn the COWS out to pasture
too early. They will do the pasture
much damage, will get little bite of
grass, just enough to spoil their ap-
petite for the other feed, and will not
do as we'll as if they had been kept in
the yard until feed in the pasture was
reasonably good.
This is just the time of year to make
calculation for feed for the COW the
coming year. What are you going
to have for roughage? Better decide
to put up the silo, nothing will pay
you better returns for the money in
vested.
Are the stacks of fodder corn begin
ming to steam any since the big spring
rains? 1t is better to shock out the
bundles in the stack into shocks
rather than let it burn up, mold and
spoil in the stack.
Don't overstock. Some farmers
keep stock enough to eat up all the
roughage that is raised on the farm
by about April l, and from that time
on until grass comes they roam
around and pick here and there on
old straw piles and dry corn stubble,
and when grass comes they are very
thin.-Dairy Record.