Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-03-13

alter a field has produced alfalfa for
period Of years it will pow up in
better shape than if it had been
cropped and will produce a larger
yield. The alfalfa will stand any
weather and stay green when other
grasses will burn up and die Two
things the dairy farmer must have,
one is, a field OF alfalfa, and the other
IS silo. Nine out Of ten OF the far
mers who sell milk TO cheese factor
les have both. Down in Lenawee
county there probably is not more
than three men in a township that
have not silos. We have had stave
silos shipped into Pennington four
carloads at time, and this year we
unloaded two carloads there at one
time. The stave silo is the most eco
nomical and best for silage. A good
l25-ton silo, a field of alfalfa and a
little cotton seed meal make a good
all round ration and provide for a
good sized dairy herd. Good dairy
COWS are necessity, but good cows
will not produce results if they are
not well fed. Poor COWS well fed will
produce better results. The Huron
county dairy census shows that seven
teen thousand cows are kept in that
county, and Lenawee county also
keeps seventeen thousand cows, but
the statistics also show that Lenawee
county dairy products were sold for
two hundred thousand dollars more
money than Huron county products,
and the only explanation is that of
better farming methods and better
dairy COWS: One spring we made a
tabulation of the patrons of one of
our factories. number of COWS. amount
paid, etc, for several months and we
found that some farmers were max
ing thirty-five dollars per year on
their COWS, others fifty and ffty-fve
dollars and some eighty dollars per
COW. Test your COWS and choose the
most profitable and with better COWS
and better feed you can make your
COWS pay on an average better than
eighty dollars per year. Weigh the
milk OF each COW twice a month, read
Hoard's Dairyman, and you will
ind that some COWS pay twice as we'll
as others and my advice is that you
sell the poor COWS for meat and not
try to trade them to your neighbors.
Cows that are not bred and not fed
for the dairy business are OF no use
for cheese factory. Personally, /
am not anxious to start any more
cheese factories, but | have a man
here, Mr. Dennis, who is an expert in
the cheese business. He has been in
my employ for a number of years and
is fully capable of attending to every
detail of the fitting out and running
OF an adequate cheese factory here in
Elwell The first requisite for a
cheese factory then is the absolute
contract of at least 400 cows. II
would not be worth while to attempt
to run a factory on less. All that we
ask is that you find us a building and
a convenient well We are willing to
pay interest on the value of the prop
erty for three years with all option
on buying. Then we vii equip the
factory and try ont the proposition.
My farm up in Huron county is partly
wild land and | spend few days
there every month in addition to
looking after the cheese business, and
my time is pretty we'll taken up, but
whether you people get cheese fac
tory here now or not. intensive dairy
farming will make your farms better
and it will pay you good dividends
besides. Out of my herd last year
eleven cows averaged me $1o3.50 and
one of the number brought me $i1s5O.
Any good COW will pay eighty-fve to
one hundred ten or fifteen dollars per
year. There is money in dairying il
you go into it right. am just get
ting into it and believe there is