Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

All of the above patroniZed the con- densing plant at Tempe so received no skim milk. %
 MT. Elliott Evans, of Phoenix, has herd of 30 pure bred and high grade Jerseys that in 19O7, produced an ever age of 6200 pounds of : per cent milk. Here is an average of BIO pounds of butterfat for which he received s7I4O per COW to which should be added the value of the calves and skim milk.
 Nessrs. Jerry and John Sullivan have a herd of 50 cows, two miles north of Phoenix and sell all their mix. wholesale for the city trade, at s1.30 per hundred. The past year the herd averaged 6lO0 pounds os milk making an income of s7320 per COW. The Sullivans kept their whole herd Of 50 cows and the young calves on 80 acres of alfalfa pasture and pasture of 20 acres rented for six weeks only. The total cost was S120 for pasture. s65 for hay. SIPS for water and s6 per acre for rent of land. Winter pas- ture was provided by discing in barley on twenty acre alfalfa field. While on this barley pasture the cows were given what hay they would eat up clean. Not q pound of grain of any kind was fed. As a matter of fact good alfalfa hay is equal to bran and shorts pound for pound for milk pro- duction and no grain feed of any kind is required.
 Above Is enumerated the record of l26 cows which produced an evrage of tA fat, s,h. l@ increase and in the case of Mir. Evans herd of 30 cows about ten dollars each for the value of the skimmilk Careful inquiry deduced the fact that 1 the cost of keeping a cow would be | about one dollar per COW per month for milking and one dollar and fifty cents per month for pasture and hay, making a total of 80 per year. BREEDS OF DAIRY STOCK. A few pure bred herds of Jerseys and Holsteins are found throughout the valley. However the Shorthorn seems to be the most popular and many Holstein and Shorthorn crosses | are to be found. At the last Territo- | rial Fair the Devon bred was repre- sented by two magnificent cows. The | majority of the farmers have grade herds that have been much improved the last few years by carefully se- | lecting the heifers of their best milk CTS
 A good demand for heavy milkers is found in the large mining towns of Arizona and Mexico. so the dairyman always has a ready market for sur plus stock. milk COW will sell from 4A ta- cred stock of good milking and breed ing qualities. prices will be much high CT. Cows can usually be rented at from seventy-five cents to one dollar per head per month. and one-half the increase. In this way a farmer not able to buy could readily engdge in dairying and in a few years have a fine herd of his own. The writer would not deem it advisable to bring his herd with him unless they were pure breds.
 PASTURE AND HAY.
 Alfalfa Is used exclusively for hay, also for pasture except three or four months in the winter. About the last of October 1t is the general custom to SOW barley on one of the alfalfa fields by discing it in. This will furnish fine winter pasture and does not interfere to any considerable extent with the hay crop of the succeeding year.
 The eastern dairyman has begun to recognize. the value of alfalfa for milk production and considers himself lucky if one crop of ton per acre can be secured in year and would no more think of pasturing it than he would of pasturing his wheat field. In the Salt River valley three to five tons of