The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-02-04
A DISCUSSION OF
DAIRY INDUSTRY

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we'll, now OF Gooding, was recently
interviewed by the Gooding Leader,
on the dairy industry. AS Mr.. Mar
latt's views will be interesting to his
Caldwell friends and acquaintance,
and as his observations should be val
liable to Caldwell dairymen, VIC
produce his observations. Mr.. Marlatt
says:
| have been asked the question
quite often, will dairying pay in
Lincoln county? And l have always
unhesitatingly answered, Eyes, pro-
viding you select good, heavy mixers.
Then they must be fed and cared for
and housed properly, water them Of
ten and feed balanced ration. You
should milk at a regular time every
day, dividing the time between the two
milkings, as nearly as possible, and
when you begin to milk cow get done
as soon as possible. Five or six min
utes is plenty of time for milking one
COW, and unless you get the milk
while she is giving it down, you won't
get it, for she will take the milk back
into the veins soon. If this rule is
followed there will be no mistake.
Care should be taken to select good,
heavy mixers. Cows when fresh
should give from As to IS pounds of
milk per day, and should hold up well
during the milking period of ten
months. Then it is essential that she
should be properly cared for. In bad
weather see that she is kept dry and
warm, so she will not get chilled.
You will often find that it is difficult
to get your cows to drink enough
water in the winter and if this is the
case your cows will lose in milk no
matter what you feed or how you 9th
revise care for them. If water is cold
they will not drink it, but if the chill
is taken of, they will drink of it the
same as if it was cool water in the
summer. Feed your cows properly,
give them tho food that goes to make
milk in Idaho. Don't feed what your
grandfather used to feed in New
New York state, Iowa or Ireland.
You are in Idaho, Lincoln county, as
good a state and county as Uncle Sam
has, where alfalfa hay, heavy pro-
teno feed is grown. Balance your
rations up so as to feed five per cent
carbohydrates to one per cent of pro-
tene, then get big five gallon bucket
and milk her. Let us divide forty
acre ranch up into blocks, and see
what we can figure on doing with it
it for one year. A forty-acre ranch
is all that ono family can farm if it
is farmed so as to get all out of it
there is to be gotten. Let us set apart,
say, three acres for house, barns and
corral, two acres for garden for fam
lily, Is acres to alfalfa hay which will
produce a hundred and five tons at S.
a ton, making $525.OO; fifteen acres
to barley, making rs bushels per acre,
or 517,50 pounds at $4,000 per ton,
equals making twenty tons per acre,
at SIS per ton, equals $4,000, making
total of $1542.5O. Now; let US keep
10 head of Al dairy cows and. ten
head of Berkshire pigs. We can safely
figure our cows to average 80 pounds
of milk per day, testing IL per cent
of butter fat, at 80 cents per pound,
euualine AZ 1-5 cents per day, or
$3.50 per month, of $4,000 for the
ten months and ten cows will bring us
$3.50 err month or $4,000 for the
believe this average IS as high a. could
be reasonably expected of good, high
| grade cows, I do not mean registered
stock, nor do not mean beefy stock
BY feeding the enormous quantity of
skim milk we will have and by an addi-
tional cost of $4,000 in grain and
hay feed, we can safely figure on max
ing $4,000 worth of pork and ten
calves worth $4,000 more Next we
will take up the expense of a balanced
ration. Twenty pounds of alfalfa at
s cents; 25 pounds of sugar beets at
seven cents and eight pounds of chop
ped barley at ten cents makes total
of % cents per day, or $500 per
month, or $4,000 for tbs ten months,
and $4,000 for tho ten head ten
months.
This will give us over and above
feed on the cows 100000; on tho hogs
and calves $4,000, and total proceeds
from ranch $2452.OO. In figuring the
feed no value is placed on the pasture
after hay is cut and stacked nor is any
value placed on tho beet crop which
are worth at least $500 per ton; and
ranch cows, as have figured on,
would milk higher than what they are