The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-06-24

/ cut and stored went through it's prop
son says he has never had any better
ensilage in his silo at any time. That
year a well kept herd book record
showed that he produced his cream at
a cost of II cents. The second year
Stinson was very busily engaged in the
campaign of organizing the Nampa Co
operative Creamery association and
many times WAS not feeding his COWS
! His book for that year showed that it
cost him 10 cents to produce his cream
and he is convinced that the irregular
feeding and handling of the herd was
responsible for this increased cost.
There are no frills about Stinson's
equipment, his dairy barn is plainly
built but is model of efficiency, and
is SO designed that there is scarcely
a foot of space wasted. The barn is
built in the shape of an l., the silo
wings being of equal length. The roof
and building is extended to inclose the
half OF the silo in which are the doors
This gives him room about eight
feet square which has concrete floor.
A door opens into each angle of the
barn and the walkway and feeding
trough or gutter is twenty four inches
wide and about eight inches deep at
the center. An iron wheelbarrow and
shovel complete the equipment and
with the ensilage once shoveled Tom
the silo into the small room it is but
a mattr of a very few minutes work To
feed the entire herd Stinson has fed
during the past year from this silo
| twenty five head of cows and heifers
| two horses and few hogs. The silo
was filled late in September and on
the first of May there was still four
feet of rich juicy feed remaining. In
his NOW was also enough alfalfa hay
to run him until the first cutting OF
the new crop was ready.
Has His Work Organized.
The secret Of Stinson's success is
defined by two words system and or
ganization His system is what we
have told you already. Organization
in handling his work has made that
system success, and as far as it is
possible to go his dairy barns are ri
! walls of "Spptless Town" water
tight manure boat with a metal bot
i tom in it is used for eleaning ssts7ese.
stables which is the first thing done
each morning. The manure is not
thrown into heaps and allowed to lie
through sun and rain, wasting its
value away but goes direct from the
stalls to the field. The value of this
by the rapidly with which his crops
sprout and grow. Each angle of the
work on this model farm is taken up
and handled at the exact time it be-
come due in the daily routine and thus
no task is allowed to become irksome,
to be a bugbear dreaded by every per-
son on the farm The result is that
from border to border the work is al
ways done and the farm presents an
appearance of thrift and industry.
Net Results of Stinson's Work.
1t would not be quite possible for
US to put before you the entire net |
results of this crazy mans efforts. A
part we can give you in figures but
the value of measured success, the val
ue of the contented home and the pros
perity which surrounds it as a result
of united action and intelligent effort,
the peace and satisfaction which comes
to the tiller of the soil who sees bar
rem acres turned into laughing, fruit
full fields as the result of his efforts
cannot be measured in sentences. One
can get faint estimate of this con-
dition only by going and seeing for
himself
At the time we visited Mr. Sim
sons ranch he was milking eleven Jer-
seys. The cream from these eleven
was being sold to a CONNECTION
sr in Nampa at So cents per gallon,
md on The 26th of April the months
shecks from him totaled $500 The
month went very near 500 and there
we're few days in which cream was
sent to the Cooperative.
His sales in 1900 totaled $1,000 For
he skim milk Mr.. stinson receives
% cents per 100 pounds from butch =
+ who feeds it to his hogs. In addition y
0 what he sells there is always a GER
ain amount reserved which goes to
lis pigs, his calves and his poultry c
ard. This poultry yard which is Mrs c
tinson's particular property contains t,
ne of the best flocks of Silver Laced II
which we have seen this "
ear, and Mrs Stinson says that her h
ecords which are accurately kept will ir