The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-03-12

ahead You can import dairy cattle
from Kansas and Oklahoma with no
risk and no more expense than pay
ing the freight,
Market Il IncXhaustiblc.
you have an inexhaustible mar.
ket everywhere. There is no pos
sibility OF oyersupply. Statistics show
that tho population is increasing
faster than the supply OF dairy pro.
ducts. Even now in some OF the
large cities poor people are scarcely
able to buy milk and cream, 30
greatly has tho price advanced,
Increasing Soil Fertility.
Much is said about the great fer
tility OF Panhandle soil and Il un-
doubtedly is rich. But it isn't mex
haustible when you sell a ton OF
wheat you have sold off the land
$3.50 worth OF nitrogen, phosphatos
and potash For every $40 worth
OF wheat YOU sell, you sell off 81
worth of fertilizer II you have sold
500 worth Of wheat you have sold
$50 worth OF fertilizer.
when you have sold $1,000
worth Of butter from a farm you
have sold less than 81 worth OF fer
tilizer from II and YOU have put the
soil in better condition than It was
before The acids in tho manure
have increased the tendency OF the
soil 20 free its valuable elements
so that they can be absorbed by
crops more readily than before.
Every farmer ought to have from
10 to IL dairy cows, enough to pay
the expenses OF his living. He can
do the work before breakfast in the
morning and after supper at night
The Three Profits.
"A good dairy COW should produce
annually 5000 pounds OF 4 per cent
milks, This is not a high standard
In New York there are many dairy
herds in which the COWS average T.
900 TO 5000 pounds OF milk annual
ly. Individual cows have yielded as
high as 10000, 1900 and even 49,
900 pounds OF milk annually,
"The COW should yield 500 pounds
of cream, or 200 pounds of butter
fat. A standard price for butter fat
is from 25 to 80 cents per pound.
This means $50 to the COW. Aft
er the 500 pounds OF cream were
taken out there would be $500
pounds of skinned milk left. Tests
have shown that 1000 pounds Of
milk with 900 OF cornmeal produce
a gain OF 1000 pounds in young
hogs. AT 5 cents a pound this will
amount to $50. The corn is worth
about 81, leaving a little over $40
net gain. Thus far the COW has
earned a little oyer 500.
Taking tho value OF fertilizers at
cents a pound for phosphates, 4 y
cents a, pound feE potash and I cents
for Nitrogen, a COW yields in fertil-
izer, $25 to $50 annually. So you
have ab04t $120 as gross income,
You ought to be able to feed a COW
for year for $2J and figuring cost
of the animal, interest and other
charges, ought to leave you 500 as
a net income from COW. But make
the figures generous and allow some
estimate for losses, and you ought
easily to make $75 a year net from
each COW in your dairy herd. Ten
cows will pay the expenses of living
and send the children to school.
"a flock Of chickens in the dairy
yard will keep itself and milk Is a
valuable poultry feed The figure Of
gain for poultry as an adjunct to a
dairy are difficult to estimate.
Dairy Products Money Crop.
Dairy products make money
crop. You can get your cash every
day. You can sell every pound Of
butter fat you make on your local
market. A local market or cream
cry can be established wherever 49,
900 pounds of butter rat can be pro-
duced annually. For this YOU need
800 COWS; 400 to 500 cows are bet
ter. If there is not local market you
can ship the creaw to Kansas City or
Fort Worth, where there is con-
slant demand. There is now being
shipped into Dallas from outside
the state 10000 pounds Of butter a
week This would maintain fifty
diaries in the state OF Texas
"The variety OF dairy cows at the
start is not important. The Erie