Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-10-17
BIG INCOME FROM MISSOURI
135= COWS. II I=3

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BY j. M. Evvard in the Orange
Judd Farmer. The herd of dairy
COWS at the University of Missouri
averages a gross income Of over
$125 per year, and counting $50 per
head as maximum for keeping these
cows, we have a net profit of $65
per COW. Now this means something
to the farmer who has facilities for
dairying, and who has liking for
dairy work, for one cannot, will not,
succeed at dairying unless he has
knack for 1t. But this is true of all
vacations and business. w.
A Record to Be Proud OF.
A short time ago a COW from the
university herd eclipsed her breed
record by over one hundred pounds
of butter, fat production, which sell
Ing at rs cents the, year round would
put the neat sum Of SIS in the farm
ler's pocket yearly, and that excess,
surplus profit coming after the first
profits were declared.
The COW is Jersey, Pedro's Estel-
| la, and her real record is 712 pounds
of butter in one year of 365 days,
| two pounds of good, wholesome but
tier every day Of the year, including
Sunday; a fine calf; and loads Of.
golden manure for the corn land.
Just think OF it,: this COW alone would
ave supplied the tables Of seven av-
erage families of five each with but
ter the year round, and given skim
and buttermilk galore for household
use, Or for the young, growing shotes
Ion the farm s3s q WI. i. ss 'a'5 n.
HI II the milk Of Pedro's Estella had
been sold at cents a quart, univer-
sity prices, she would have brought
in $414.75. Counting out cost of
feed, which was SIS, and $25 for
care and labor, we have net income
that most anyone in the dairy bust
ness would be glad to claim for most
any three of his best cows. a good
COW with large capacity must have
plenty OF good food and good care.
| Twenty such cows, number easily
supported BY la man and a helper,
would net the owner twice as much
solid cash as Is gotten by highest
paid professors inIthe university.
What the Cow Was Fed.
In the winter when not on pasture,
about Il pounds grain daily, consist
ing OF one-fourth corn chop, one
fourth wheat bran. one-fourth oats,
one-eighth linseed oil meal and one
eighth gluten Or germ meal for var
iety 15 pounds corn silage, costing
about $50 per ton, and ten pounds
of alfalfa hay. And In the summer,
fresh, green pasture, green clover,
corn and alfalfa. This is essentially
a homemade. home-produced ration,
excepting for the bran. gluten and
lgerm meal. which make up small
i part Of the total ration. si5s'
Breeding Always Counts.
Correct breeding with high class
sires and cuIling out the tail-snders
with the scales and test Is what
made the COW 1t can be made to
work wonders, this skillful breeding
and testing out.
There are now in the university
4 herd at least four mature Jerseys
that will surpass this three-year-old
cows record They have been bred
here and fed here according to scien-
1 tiic methods. and make the pocket
/ book much fattsr In the years end.
Dairying Shows Great Advancement.
! Dairying Is a coming industry, al
1 Is shown by it's rapid advancement
Lin this country. In 1900 not more
than 1.0Q0 farmers used cream sep
arators, while now 10000 would not
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