The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-11
RAISING VEAL FOR MARKET.

Throughout the nondairying Sec
tions Of Ohio and adjoining states,
there are thousands Of farmers who
keep just enough cows to supply
their families with milk and butter,
aud 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
1 than two, says the Ohio Farmer. On
account of the butter not being the
chief product OF these farms. the pro-
duction of It is attended to after 9TH
en- things are out of the way. As a
J result. the animals are MIXED at any
/ old place and at almost any time,
very little attention being paid to
rations. The milk of hardly one COW
in thousand is tested. The product
sells low in the market, and hurts
the producer of good butter and If
named by dairyman would be call
| ed q scrub"
It 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 If only the
almighty dollar is in the way. This
comes in the question of the calf
raiser Most dairymen deplore the
vealing of calves, arguing that they
ought to be reared. Yet, when a
calf sells for so or $40 at six or seven
weeks of age, does ii pay to rear and
sell it as a "scrubH at S25 or $50 The
sires of the greater number Of these
calves are simply bulls very often Of
no type at all, and which arc usually
sold for beef as soon as they can
be fattened. They are not Shorthorn
bulls or Hereford bulls, but just
bulls"
Most of these nondairying farmers
milk their cows and set the pail
down in the house for the women TO
take care of. They can do little il
anything else, for there are no cream
cries or cheese factories, and 1t does
not pay TO install expensive machin-
cry for so few COWS 1t often hap
pens that the women for some rea-
son 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 milking-machine and an au-
tomato 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 10 get the
calves. We have been getting ours
of a milkman who desires to use tho
cows milk as soon as possible after
the latter are freshened, One or two
dollars will buy 'newly-born one
Then again there are others who
Just don't like TO bother with them
If you keep your eyes open you car
get the calves. We recently sold ont
which was six weeks old, AMI which
weighed 1870 pounds, bringing $1l.25
Our butter account for that time wa!
S.. Before that, it took The combin
ed product of this and another COW
TO keep us in milk and butter. Now
we can steal enough milk from tn,
calves to keep ourselves supplied, anc
are ahead on the fattened calf and S;
on the first COW. We. expect to keel
calves on all our cows during thC
next season. 1t returns us a prof
in addition to saving milking anC
churning. Indeed, it is the onl,
method of profitable utilizing the poo
COW, which we are told is cheap a
any price"