The sun., 1910-01-30
COW AT THE SUMMER HOME
STORY OF a REVOLT AGAINST
A. SUBURBAN RATRYNAN.

Care O1 the Cow Not DlTaeult-Hints
6therS' Mey FSss0w 70 Advantage.
by keeping my own COW I manage to
save from $40 to SOS during the summer
season." New York woman who spends
the summer in a suburban town told the
reporter. Il have family OF nine which
includes two small children and three
serya nts. 40 YOU see our milk bill s always
an item to be considered. Besides the ex-
peuse there was, until we bought our own
cow, always the uncertainty Of getting
il regularly. Il was because Of THIS un-
certainty one summer that my husband
finally decided to try keeping COW.
-The dairynnan, grocer and butcher all
told him that the expense would be three
times as great as blIying his own MAX
besides the trouble OF caring for the COW
and the danger OF having her ono ON our
hands. but my husband having made up
his mind pcrsevered.
From the advertising columns OF the
local paper We learned d farmer win a
young milch COW for sale. This proved
10 be a graded Jersey. The farmer said
he needed tho money to pay doctors
bill or he would not sell her. She was
guarantesed to give twelve quarts OF milk
a day, Of a gentle disposition and good
enter. After hayipgshSr inspectsd by an
expert from the t,isst who Charged my
husbaiad g. p7sd 0Snanscs for the trip,
my husband bought the Cow as.d eat wttn
the understanding that the calf was 70 oe
bought back by the farmer at the snd Of
sfS VIVA M, excitiag time when this COW
arriyed at hsr new horne, She was put
in a stall in the stable on the back. Of our
lot and the cook 10 whom ! was pay ing
81 a month extra hscsuse shs ooola .i.,.lt 5slk
thing went well for the first few days,
then the yield Of milk fell on more than
half. ~ tsZs.tt .s--
slt was just at this time that She ak
weeks expired and the farmct cAtne ovor
to got his calf. OF course my husband
was Indignant about the yioid Of milk
having fallen on i'm sti,h . short time and
told tho farmer so Tho old man very,
Quietly offered 10 buy tho COW back At
the same price. or no would guarantee
old yie,d OF milk IL my halsbead Or our
daughter, who was then a siEtoen-year-
old Rirl, would do the milking. My
dauahtcl Jumped at the farmers ofer
and took lesson that sfternooa.
-WWh to get rid of oTr cook becAuee |
we found out thar she had damned with |
tho dairyman TO force US 20 sal thes cow |
and 60 back to buying milk. Within les1 |
than two weeks after my daughter be- I
gan to milk the COW was giving thiff@cn I
] had over tasted. Tho child eujoyusd her
dutics, and her father TO mako sure that
no harm came to he. was not only pres>
ent at milleng time hut, gradually began
70 food and carc for the COW entirely, +
10 Ssr ssrSE Saoe asd ss Ue S2 S @
lot further down the street where shoI
pastifcd. Before the end OF that summer
the entire family wore as devoted 10 fhst
COW as thew ever had becn 20 q doc. Il
when the time came for moving back
to town Of course there could be no qnes
lion Of taking her with US as we wers fat
dwellers but the children were all as
much interested in setting her q COM
Portable homo for the winter a. II she
sirysn asG 1ssn eosa %5D .. ss1 hsd a1, oas.
FOR :es COW AAd ~ tisN old fatmcr sssur~1l
my husband ft would be better for him
10 sell and buy another the Eoll0wlnS
summer he Accepted, the dairyman's
and calcuIstine the Wild of mink At eight
nents n quart we found that we were
just t5.24 to the good.
SThe next year a second COW WAS bought
1t the same price as the first, s85. but be-
- Was ., mo 70 fo ,c "a nss
difference was that abe was a graded
Holstein with q capacity offourteen quarts
4 day. This seemed a decided advantage
until we began to notice the difference
IN the quality Of the milk and the amount
Of food consumed. This COW acooryiiue
10 my husbands calculations ats nne-third
mora than our first pet, and her milk
at the best estimate must have been a
third less rich In spite OF the additional
suN Two 1Inrt ;,, ,S Even yith THIS additional
profit. was between $40 and $50. This COW
We sold for $50.
Though we all liked this COW there
was q decided feeling in the family that
we would very much like to get the first
ono back again, but her dairyman owner
said he would not think OF selling her for /
less than SIPS. While we were consider
ing this proposition the farmer from whom
we had bought her called at my husbands
cow and he would sell her at the same
terms. s65 for the COW. and II the calf was
a hetfer be would give SO for It when six
weeks old.
-The next spring we moved into the
because we received a letter from the
farmer saying the calf had come and the
COW was ready for us. That COW gave
only eleven quarts and because the calf
was not a heller 70 had been sold TO the L
butcher and we hadn't an opportunity
Now that we have got thinxs system-
atized our milk account stands about
m follows: One ton Of hay. s27; q thousand
pounds OF corn meal. N4: 400 pounds Of
wheat bran. IS; 100 pounds OF shorts. az:
200 pounds Of clean straw for litter, o.,
and 81 for rent for vacant lot used as pas
ture. This was the cost OF the food con-
sumed by our COW last seaaon ia I2Oi
days. All the green feed she got was
from grazing in the vacant lot and the ref-
lse OF yegetables used on our table.
Against these expenses put ten quarts
Of milk day for i20 days at 2 cents a
quart. That is the. price the iairymaYl
offered to furnish us milk for this past
summer. though when we need to buy OF
him he would have hooted at the idea Of
taking less than 9 cents.
AT the end OF each season We now ta,rn
our COW over 70 the farmer from whom
We bought her. Because We buy all
our eggs. chickens and COW food from
him no does not charge Us for her keen.
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