The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-09-28
Wise Farmers Are
On The Dairy
Cow S Pay Roll
BY Myron Townsend

Consider the dairy COW as wealth
producer! Her other name Is ready
cash! From her such sources of rev.
enue as butterfat and skim milk flow.
Who but the COW is the originator
Of the cream check! Animated ma.
chine though she be the consumer of
his silage and his roughage, isn't she
the one friend of the farmer that fat
tens his bank account twelve months
in the year? Nor Is this all! She
Is the mother of the calves and the
sole author of the sustenance from
which they are fed the first months
OF their lives. Few COW owners APP
preciate how valuable her warm,
sweet skim milk is for the young
stock of the farm!
And the yellow butterfat! What is
1t but so much gold! Even after the
separator extracts the butterfat from
the whole milk all the bone and mus
Gle forming elements are left. How
warm, sweet separator skim milk
makes the calves, the pigs, the chick.
ems grow. And it comes from the
COW!
For every dollars worth of fodder
fed her she returns 100 per cent in
dividends. Instead of robbing the
soil Of its fertility by selling off your
produce, feed 1t to the COW!
Then the solid and liquid wastes
from her body! Do they not keep
up the fertility of the soil? In con.
verting hay and grain and grass and
silage into milk and money isn't the
manure her most valuable byproduct?
What boon the dairy COW is to the
impoverished soils Of run down farms
that lack many of the elements that
make plant life flourish.
Who ever heard Of an abandoned
dairy farm where a separator was
on duty removing the butterfat, af-
ter which the warm, sweet skim milk
was fed to the calves or the pigs
But there Is still another source OF
revenue from the dairy COW. Even
her old, worn out body, about to
succumb to wear and tear, has its
market value! Her carcass can be
sold to the butcher and her hide to
tanner!
Farmers are deeply indebted to
the dairy COW. They are on her pay
roll! She furnishes them a steady
cash income in fat months and In lean
and she makes their fields more fer
tile and productive.
Blessed be the COW! How could the
world live without her? What a
blessing she Is to babies and how
indispensable she is to adults! Con.
sumers of dairy products--men, WON.
en- and children everywhere-echo
the sentiment; blessed be the COW!
All people pay homage to the source
Of their sustenance to their humble
servant, the accomplishing COW! Ben.
efactor of all mankind!
And how much the COW contributes
TO the wealth Of the community! Her
very presence makes the mother
earth more productive. She not only
tends to elevate and enrich her own.
er but she furnishes food for his
family and he sells the surplus to his
neighbors. Cash circulates more
freely and merchants feel the slim.
uius OF such steady flow of milk.
money! No cream check, no cow!
Few men who form partnership
with the cow ever complain of hard
times! II they treat her kindly and
develop her milk producing POSSIBLE
tiles intelligently they never consort
with the chronic calamity howlers
who outrage nature by bankrupting
their soil with grain crops and then
blame failure on the political party
In power.
Pages and pages could be written
In praise Of the dairy COW! But 80,
Bossy" needs no lengthy eulogium.
Her name is SO linked with pros
perity In the minds of farmers, bank
ers and merchants that her achieve
ments, alone, entitle her to first place
In the hearts OF those who follow ag.
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