The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-03-31
DAIRYING
PROFITABLE
Will Pay Well With Proper
Handleing and Care

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quite often. will dalrying DAy in Lin
coin County?" And have always un.
hesitatingly answered "Yss. providing
you select good, heavy Mixers Then
they must be sed and cared for and
housed properly; water them often,
and feed a balanced raj; III. You
should milk at a regular tima each
day, dividing the time between the
two milkings as nearly as possible,
and when you begin to milk a COW
get done as soon as possible Five or
six minutes is plenty of time Ter milk
ing one COW. Unless you get the milk
while she is giving it down, you won
get it, for she will take the milk
back into the veins soon. If this rule
is followed there viii be no mistake.
Care should be taken to select good,
heavy mixers. Cows when fresh
should give from As to 65 pounds of
milk per day, and should hold up well
during the milking period of ten
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be properly cared for.
In bad weather see that she is kept
dry and warm, SO she will not get
chilled You will often find that it
is difficult to get your COWS to drink
enough water in the winter, and if
this is the case your cows will lose
milk, no matter what you feed or
how you otherwise care for them.
If water is cold they will not drink
it, but if the chill is taken off they
will drink of it the same as if it was
cool water in the summer. Feed your
cows properly, give them the food that
goes to make milk. Don't feed what
your grandfather used to feed in York
state, Iowa or Ireland You are In
County-as good a |
state and county as Uncle Sam has,
where alfalfa hay, a heavy protein
feed, is grown. Balance your rations
up so as to feed per cent of protein,
then get big five-gallon bucket and
milk her.
Let us divide 40-acre ranch up
into blocks, and see what we can fig
ure on doing with it for one year. A
40-acre ranch is all that one family
can farm if it is farmed SO as to get
all out of it there is to be gotten.
Let us set apart, say three acres for
/ house, barns and corral; two acres
or garden for family; Is acres to al
5alfa hay, which will produce 1O5
ons at $5 ton, making $525; Is acres
@ barley, making rs bushels per acre,
,r 51,750 pounds at $40 per ton, equal
o $517.50; five acres in sugar beets,
making 20 tons per acre, at $5 per
on, equals $500, making total Of
,l542.50. Now, let us keep ten head
# AL dairy COWS and ten head Of
Berkshire pigs We can safely figure
ut COWS to average 80 pounds OF
milk per day, testing Az per cent
utter fat, at 30 cents per pound, equal
ng 43 is cents per day or $3.50 per
Month, or $129.60 for the ten months
nd ten COWS will bring us $1296 for
he ten months.
l do not believe this average is
S high as could be reasonably expect
d of good, high grade cows. | do not
lean registered stock, nor do mean
eefy stock. By feeding the enormous
uantity of skim milk we will have
nd by an addition Of $100 in grain
nd hay feed, we can safely figure
n making 5000 worth of pork, and
IN calves worth $3.50 more. Next we
ill take up the expense of balanced
alton. Twenty pounds of alfalfa at
cents; rs pounds Of sugar beets at
cents and eight pounds of chopped
arley at 10 cents makes total
I % cents per. day, or $3.50 per
Ionth, or $66 for the ten months. and
$50 for the ten head for ten months.
This will give us over and above
ed on the cows $3.50; on the hogs
nd calves $3.50, and total proceeds
ON ranch s2452. In figuring the feed
} value is placed on the pasture after
ay is cut the beet crops, which are
orth at least $5 per ton; and ranch
,ws, as / have figured on, would
ilk higher than what they are fig
ed.
BY C. Il. MARLA:T