Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-08-14
AND PROSPEROUS
Wisconsin and Vernon County to the
Front in Dairying

]. D. Beck will soon place on his
Viroqua farm six full-blood Guernsey
cows and heifers from the RundelI
Guernsey farm in Grant county. Also
a fine span of draft mares.
The La Fargo Enterprise, which has
good creameries in its section and also
cream buyers for distant.shipment, thus
advlces: Support your home cream
cry. The clio. sr the market is to the
seller the better opportunity ne has to
know the value of his product. If your
cream goes $50 to 800 niles away YOU
know nothing about its true value: YOU
know only what is returned to you by
the party having the control in his own
hands y
Wisconsin has 1904, 900 mich cows,
nine for every farm, valued at $50, 1872
900. This valuation is based on value
of $40 40 head. The total number of
dairy cattle in the United States is
20, 500, 600 Wisconsin contains $685.
900, or nearly one-fifth of the total
number. Wisconsin produces "A per
cent of all the cheese made in the
United States, or nearly 10000, 900
pounds annually, and one-twelfth of
pounds annually. The value of the
butter is estimated at $50. 62s, 900 an
nually.
Readstown creamery company pays
dividend of II cents per pound on
butterfat delivered by its stockholders
during the first half Of 1912. This is
good showing considering that an
amount had to be invested in equip
ment, supplies. etc. At this rate the
patron who delivered $50 pounds of
butterfat receives more than enough in
dividend to pay for share of stock,
says the Tribune.
A lady asks dairymen to give results
of testing cows in the CENSOR and two
weeks ago she gave quality but not
quantity tests. | know little about
practical dairying, but while helping
harvest at our home farm we decided
to test our cows and found three of
twelve tested 4, and IA, but the
quantity was so small, nearly dry, that
they make less butter than the other
nine. Our cows are Jerseys, and faith
er thinking he could tell a good COW
when he sees her has assembled fairly
good herd Our best COW had test of
5 6 and 23t pounds of milk and makes
about II pounds butter per day on
rather poor pasture. In June 10 cows,
g being strippersl yielded $s7 in cream,
which Is good enough, but the test
shows that one of them gives lSpounds
of milk testing but s, which is pound
butter per day, and she is now for sale
with iie three now dry, bargained to
butcher. Another COW testing gave
% pounds, which Is over a pound per
day, and pounds is the average at the
creamery. Eight OF ours testing a. to
5.S doing better than that. If the
agricultural society will help US am a
tours IN testing match at the fair |
viii enter our best COW and az hear
her mother was the best COW this
vicinity ever had, we will put S25 extra
on her value. We call her Buchanan
HI Our cows have been valued acs
cording to weight, but we should value
them according to weight end test OF
their milk. We never tested before.
Only few days ago, j. ID. Beck,
who is building up a good herd of
thorough bred Guernseys near this city,
said TO me that it costs $50 to keep the
average COW, and that the yield is S5l.
So II will be seen that does not pay to
keep the average COW, AND only the
better kind are profitable. We BUTT.