The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-11-24

The grains and other products
grown upon the farm find sure and
profitable market in the dairy COW.
That she of all farm animals is the
most economical producer Of human
foods is evidenced by the facts
learned through many experiments.
II has been shown that a COW yield
ing 10 quarts of per cent milk
daily produces as much fat and fat
equivalent in seven days as would the
steer that is gaining 10 pounds In
the same time. In addition to this
the COW yields six times as much
mineral matter and six times as
much nitrogenous matter. which are
the nutrients which render skim milk
so valuable for feeding all young ami
mails The dairy COW accomplishes
this by consuming the roughage or
cheap food with a small amount OF
concentrated or expensive food while
the steer requires concentrated ex-
pensive food largely in order to make
his gains.
There Are Cows and Cows.
There Is a vast difference between
the profits yielded by the common
COW and the COW whose ancestors
have been bred for economical pro-
duction for hundreds of years. The
profitable dairy COW Is source OF
large. regular and sure profits. and
= conserver and restorer of fertility,
hut do you know the difference be-
tween profitable and Improbable
dairyipg? Here it is: Some cows
are capable of producing more milk
from given quantity OF feed than
others. In fact, some cows produce
ten times more milk of nearly the
same degree of richness. A COW con-
suming the same amount OF food that
the average dairy COW consumes and
producing $50 gallons of milk per
year produces 1t at a cost of %
40 gallons of milk per year produces
1t at a cost of 20.5 cents per gallon;
a COW producing $40 gallons per year
produces 1t at cost of rs cents per
gallon a COW producing 710 gallons
per year produces IL as a cost of l4.5
cents per gallon; a COW producing
$50 gallons per year produces 1t at
cost Of ~ cents per gallon; and
COW that gives $50 gallons Of milk
In one year produces II for 9.5 cents
per gallon. And so we might go on
until we reach the production OF
Colantha 4th's Johanna, who in one
year produced $3.50 gallons Of milk.
If fed the same ration as the average
COW she would have produced this
prodigious amount for 2.7 cents per
gallon. However, this does not hold
true beyond a production OF 900 or
l 900 gallons, for the reason that an.
imals producing such large amounts
require an extra amount OF feed and
care.
A Cow For Definite Purpose.
There is much difference in the in.
diyiduality Of cows and their powers
to produce milk. One COW consumes
corn silage, clover and alfalfa hay,
oats, bran, etc, and converts 1t into
soft, juicy, muscular texture, which,
after the animal is killed. furnishes
the steaks and roasts which we all
relish so much. Then there is a
third COW that takes this same ration
and converts It neither into much milk
nor into much meat. The first two
cows are profitable cows, but the
third COW is Improbable. Unfortu-
nately, too many farmers persist In
keeping the third COW, and that is
Just where the difference between
successful and unsuccessful dairying
lies.
Weed Out the Boarders.
Success lies not In the number OF
cows that a man keeps, but rather
In the kind OF cows he keeps. 1t is
more profitable to keep a small num-
Der OF good cows than a large num-
Der of average cows. The following
may be cited as an example: A
farmer had 23 cows which he had
been keeping for number of years.
He finally realized that he was not
making as much money as he should
and began TO keep records. AS a re-
suit he found that 20 OF these cows
produced 1000 gallons of milk in one
year and 1t cost him S1,760 to feed
and care for them during that time.
II cost him rs cents TO produce each
gallon Of milk and he received for
II an average price Of 1914 cents per
gallon for the year In addition to
this he was obliged TO pay 1h cents
per gallon freight, which left him 12la
cents per gallon for his milk. Now
T. is plain to be seen that on each
gallon OF milk he lost 13 cents; con-
sequently at the end of the year he
had lost 1910. The other three cows
produced 2,400 gallons OF milk, and
the actual cost to keep them was
s240. Every gallon Of milk that these
cows produced cost Just 10 cents. It
was sold for IL cents. Thus there
was a profit OF 2 cents per gallon, or
t48 on the total amount produced by
the three cows. This is not a very
large income from COW, but II
shows such a difference between the
returns from the three cows and the
returns from the twenty cows that