Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-26
LACK OF GRASS CAUSES DAIRY
MEN TO PUT COWS ON WIN
TER RATloNS.
FEED PROBLEM PROVES
SERIOUS TO PRODUCERS
Dairyman Says That Dealers Have Not
Made Nearly So Much Since Milk
Raised From Cents, Owing to High
Cost of Feed-Looks for Further Ad-
vance Unless Pastures Improve.

According to dairymen of the city the
price of milk may be expected 10 au-
vance unless pastures improve soon'
the lack OF rain having dried up the
pastures completely and resulted IN
cows being put on full winter ratlons
in order to produce milk at all II the
much-needed rains come it will require
six weeks time to get the pastures III
shape, as the grass roots nave peeh
destroyed owing to the long-continued
drouth There has been practically no
asturage for three weeks, and for the
past two weeks dairymen have been
feeding for milk the same as they do in
The winter months.
Cows Don't Do as Well.
Attic milk cows are being fed nay
and ground feed. as the only possible
way 10 produce milk without pactures to
rely upon, the animals do not do nearly
as we'll according 10 Jacob Ne!derhau-
ser. who conducts one OF the largest
diaries furnishing milk TO this city
Neiderhauser says that in the winter
time the cows. if they are protected by
warm barns, will produce much more
milk on the same feed than they do
now. when they are fed outside and
are bothered by flies. Constant switch
ing Of flies has a tendency TO keep the
cow from eating a much, and causes
her more or less worry.
Had Cows Vi Two Week..
Mr. Neid erhauser says that he has
mad his cows up for two weeks, as
there is absolutely nothing TO eat in the
pastures. The herd OF the Stone dairy
in this city has also been out of pas
ture Tor twelve days and on regular
winter feed. Because Of the lack OF
pasturage in the season when the grass
should be at its best dairymen figure
that at best this year they will not
have 10 exceed two months OF cheap
feed. Even earlier in the season. when
the grass crop began, some feed was
necessary. as the ground was cold for
long time and the grass did not yield
as it should and not in quantities SUI
ticient to produce all the milk required.
Not Getting Enough for Milk.
"Altho the public does not under
stand the situation. and will probably
made great complaint if the price Of
milk is raised, the fact remains that
we are not getting enough for our
milk at cents" said Mr.. Neiderhau-
ser If this dry weather continues I
can't see any way out of it for the
producer bur to raise the price.
More Money at Cents.
Five years ago. continued Mr..
Neiderhauser, when we We're getting 5
cents quart for milk, We made more
money than we are now making at I
cents, but the public does not realize
~;
10 be $40 per ton at the least calcula-
ton. and We can't produce 7-cent milk
on s20-hay and make much money.
When we sold milk az 5 cents we
We're paying So per ton for hay Bran
cost us then around IS per ton, and we
paid SIS per ton for good. white mil,
shorts. Now We pay s24 or s25 per ton
for bran, and the shorts that we used
to pay s13 for are not on the market
at all, for the new process of milling
renders our shorts into poor quality
of what is scarcely nothing more than
pulverized bran. Yet we pay s32 per
ton for this, an inferior quality OF
shorts that we paid s13 for five years
ago, With these high prices for feed
ing, and having to feed ten months
out of the year, any one ought 10 be
able to see that the dairyInan can not
make as much out of 7-cent milk as
ne did out Of ).
Cows Hard to Coz.
Then there is another important
question to be considered, and that is
| the scarcity of good cows. Five years
| Or SO ago 1 could buy good milk cows
| from $50 TO s35 Now 1 pay from $50
| to $40, and A No. i COWS are hard 70
get even at that. 1t is almost up to the