The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-02-13
HOLSTEINS PAY
SAYS W. II. GOLD
Banker Having Greet Success
With Blooded Stock On
His Farm
WORKS FOR $4,000 LIB. AVERAGE
Advices Farmers TO Study Re-
-
cords And See Why Good T
Stock Pays


week on the Redwood Stock Farm,
about mile from Wabasso. is quite
a fancier of thorough bred bovines
and from what he reports the Red
wood Stock farm is not only stock
farm in name but in fact.
He says they have been feeding
about $50 hogs this winter, one car
load of which have been sent to the
st. Paul market. They haye 200
sheep and they will ship a car of
lambs to st. Paul this week. They
have on this farm horse equipment
consisting Of Is mares and colts,
nine of the brood mares being in
foal with fine pure bred $3500.00
stallion secured by the farmers
around Wabasso last spring. This,
however, Mr.. Gold says is a minor
part of the stock equipment of the
farm.
The real interest centers in the
pure bred HoIstein herd of about 80
animals. Something like $500 was
expended during the past year to
provide additional barn room for
the herd, and also to erect second
silo on the farm. These silos are
filled with 400 tons of ensiIage which
provides the best of feed for the
herd. twenty-five of these cows
and heifers are being MIXED this
winter. At present Mr.. Colo says.
these cows are producing an aver.
age of over 80 gallon per day.
High Butter fat Test
The cows in this herd have a re-
cord of from 3 to A butter fat, some
of them testing even higher than
that under official test. About half
of the cows in milk have advanced
registry records, and bunch Of the
young heifers fresh this winter will
be tested this month. He says prac-
tically all of the two-year old heifers
that haye freshened the last month
are milking 40 pounds a day with
two milkings and that under the
advanced registry test, when they
milk four times a day these same
cows will produce so pounds or bet
ter.
Look For A Fine Average
A number of cows in the herd have
MIXED from 10000 to $1,000 pounds
of milk the past 10 months, and it is
expected that all of the cows will
average, during the year 1912. better
than 5000 pounds. 1t is their aim
to increase this average until they
are sure of securing at least $4,000
pounds of milk per year from each
animal kept on the place.
1t can readily be seen that even at
the present rate the amount of but
ter fat produced by each animal,
equalling 800 pounds or better per
year, makes the cow a paying pro-
position Each COW is tuberculin
tested by official state inspectors and
the local creamery at Wabasso has
been paying from 36 to 81 cents per
pound for butterfat during the win
ter.
Mr.. Gold says that they figure the
skinned milk worth 80 cents per
hundred to feed to the calves and
hogs and colts, and this yields good
revenue from each COW. Then in
addition their calves range in pri ces
from 5000 to $4,000. They have
sold some two year old heifers this
winter to farmer near Marshall.
Mimi, at nearly 5000 90 apiece, and |
he says they have a big demand for
heifers at from $4,000 to 100000 |
each.
Cows Bring 5000 And Up
Owing to the large number of |
heifers on the farm they have sold a |
few mature cows from $4,000 up
wards.
This proposition cannot help but be
of benefit to Redwood County Iii
the farmers wouId only look at their