The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-03-19

five acres, thirteen cows; six to seN
acres, twenty cows; eight to nine acreA
twenty-five cows. A small area, indeed
for the results that may be obtained. A
maximum amount of rich. succulent
feed at minimum cost.
"Let us, therefore, appeal to you to
investigate the question of Silos, the
question of growing corn for filling same,
the question of filling them and the
question of feeding Ensilage. As, we
believe, it is indeed one of the most
important and essential things that can
be done by you, in order to increase
the efficiency of your herd, as well as
the general wealth and fertility of your
SOIL Their cost is nominal. Interest four
or five of your neighbors, each of you
build Silo and secure among you. one
cutter with which to cut the fodder and
and make the Ensilage. Cooperate
with one another in the work of filling
the Silo and, in this manner. you will
accumulate scarcely any expense.
''In this connection allow us to as
we'll call your attention to the prime
necessary of your having hand tester
80 that you may be able to determine
the value of your product which you
sell from day to day, the value of your
herd as represented by each individual,
so that you may be able to intelligently
eliminate and build up your herd to a
high standard of production.
''The ordinary, average Trans-Missis-
sippi COW produces approximately $50
pound of butter fat per year. With
proper care, proper feeding and proper
selection, she is capable of producing
from 275 to 800 pounds of butter fat
per year. which means an additional
net revenue of from S25 to $40 per cow
each year.
"a ton of butter fat is ordinarily
worth from $500 to $500. 1t is the
highest priced commodity that you
have to sell. In the production of ton
from the soil seventy-two times the
amount of plant food that is required
to produce ton of butter fat.
I'm the production of butter fat you
are conserving the fertility of your soil
and increasing your revenue therefrom.
The highest priced lands in the world
are in those sections of the country
wherein dairying has become prominent.
The COW adds more than she takes
away.
1T is a well recognized fact that
the basis of all wealth and power, de-
cay and ruin, of counties and nations
is measured by their agricultural de-
velopment, that the highest agricul-
tural development has been obtained
only where and when dairying has be-
come prominent
''The statement that, All nations will
stand or fall, hereafter as heretofore,
accordingly to their care of the one
great resource, the soil, the one indis-
pensible occupation, agriculture, is
Sterling truth and need to be seriously
considered by the farmers of the Trans
Mississippi Valley, and by you.
1t is the keynote to the policy of con-
servation. Dairying, the Keystone of
the arch of agricultural wealth That
the duty of the dairyman, of the farm
er, of yourself. lies in the direction of
conservation of the natural resources
of your soil, there is no doubt. This
can tine better be done through dairy
ing through any other branch of agri-
cultural activity. We can conceive of
no higher plane of duty, no better leg
acy to future generations in the years
to come than that of conserving the
fertility and productiveness of the soil.
1t is folly for US to say there is no
limit to the depth and wealth of our soil,
when we know that large areas are
continuously being depleted by the
growing of successive and abundant
crops for the purpose of sale of raw
material in cereals or forage. We be-
lieve it is being depleted more rapidly
in one generation now than can be re-
stored by several successive genera
tions.
The replenishing of the fertility of
the soil, the adding to its wealth through
dairying is the most practical, the quick
est the surest and most beneficial way.
1t may require some considerable self
denial, possibly, revolution of your
present methods and manners of agri-
cultural life, but it will give to posteri-
ty the rich and generous assurance of
abundant resources in the years to come.
I'VE hope you will wake up to the
fact that there is no branch of agricul-
tural life that has the vitality in it
that dairying has. The dairyman, who
uses his brains to good advantage is
making more profit from good herd
of cows than from any other line of
agricultural work and he has the surety
behind it of the increasing demand for
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