Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-09
THE PRODUCTION OF VEAL FOR
THE MARKET.

Throughout the non-dairying sections or
OHIO and adjoining states, there are
thousands OF farmers who keep just
enough cows to supply their families with
milk and butter and butter production
ends here, with them. Others keep the
family in groceries by sale of eggs and
butter. Neither class keep more than five
or six cows; the first class rarely more
than two. says the Ohio Farmer. On ac-
count of the butter not being the chief
product OF these farms, the production or
1t Is attended to after other things are
out of the way. As a result. the animals
are MIXED at any old place, and at al
most any time, very little attention being
paid to ratlons. The milk of hardly one
COW in a thousand is tested. The product
sells low in the market, and hurts the
producer Of good butter. Nearly every
cow kept is a grade, and If named by a
dairyman would be called a scrub"
1t would look out OF the way were A
farmer to buy his milk and butter. Yet
one cares little whether a thing Is out OF
the way or not II only the almighty dollar
Ia In the way, This comes in the question
Of the calf raising. Most dairymen de-
plore the yealing Of calves. arguing that
they ought TO be reared. Yet, when a calf
sells for 50 or $40 at 8 or Z weeks of age,
does 1t pay to rear and sell 1t as a scrub"
at SO or $50 when a 3-year-old? Better
sell three veal calves to get your $50. The
sires OF the greater number of these
calves are simply bulls, very often OF no
type at all, and which are Usually sold
for beef az soon as they can be fattened.
They are not Shorthorn bulls. or Hereford
bulls, but just bulls"
Most OF these non-dairying farmers
milk their cows and set the pail down in
the house for the women to take care OF.
They can do little II anything else, for
there are no creameries or cheese fac
tories. and 1t does not pay TO install expen-
sive machinery for so few cows. 1t often
happens that the women for some reason
or other are for a time unable to take care
Of the milk. Often the men, on account
of lack OF help. or for some other reason,
can but with difficulty find time to milk.
Then the calf comes in handy, for he is
both a milking-maehine and an automatic
milk care-taker. Leave him In the yard
during the day, turn the cow in at night,
and out to pasture during the morning.
Some may ask where to get the calves.
We have ben Citing ours of a milkman
who desires to use the cows milk as soon
as possible after the latter are freshened.
One or two dollars will buy a n~ewly-born
one. Then again there are others who
lust don't like to bother with them" IL
you keep your eyes open you can get the
calves. We recently sold one which was
six weeks old, and which weighed $50
pounds, bringing $11.25. Our butter ac-
count for that time was S.. Before that.
1t took the combined product Of this and
another COW TO keep US in milk and but
ter. Now we can steal enough milk
from the calves to keep ourselves supplied
and are ahead one fattened calf and s. on
the first COW. We expect 10 keep calves
on all OF our cows during the next season.
1t returns us a profit in addition to saw
ing milking and churning. Indeed, II Is the
only method Of profitably utilizing the
poor cow, which we are told is cheap at
any PRICE. Il. Waugh, Wood county,
Ohio,