La Junta tribune., 1917-04-19


$1,000. I knew as much about milk
COW as a hog does about Sunday
and every man that had scrub that
he wanted to sell sold II to Loose
was eighty miles from Denver.
MIXED while and saw was going
to make good II / worked hard
enough. borrowed 500 more from
my sister l moved out on dry land,
and | claim dry land is the ideal
dairy land of Colorado. The first
year, every time | went to town l
had a hard thing to face. They
called me Tit Fuller" or Tits,
or something like that, but just the
same kept on going,
l will tell you the kind of silo
| had. I dug hole in the ground.
1t was eleven feet wide, about twelve
feet deep and fifty feet long. | filled
this hole up with corn silage and
1t kept as good as it would in any
$500 or $500 silo. AS time rolled
on | kept making money and In a
year and half | had my debts paid
and had nice bunch of producing
Holstein cows. We went on and four
years from the time / borrowed this
first 81, 900, had 129 head of good
cows, and when | sold out and set
tied up and paid every thing owed,
had a little better than $4,000
TO come TO the Arkansas Valley
with and there is no reason why any
body cannot do the same thing My
advice to any one that has not had
any experience in handling COWS is
for you to buy the best. Some
four years ago | changed from Hol-
stems to Guernseys. They are the
economical producers we have in the
market today. What ever you do, do
not buy long horns for milk cows.
| will tell you how they build pit
silos in the northern part of the
or four feet and put in about six
inches of cement and then dig down
about three or four feet and plaster
& as you 20 down. You cannot plast-
er on dry dirt. II Is little bit hard
er to get the feed out, nut II man
has to do II he can do II.
| test all my cream and know Just
what | am doing and l find that
some OF these creameries will not
give you fair test. have to say
that Mr.. Wiswell is as honest a
creamery man as | have ever shipped
to.
In the month of February, from
thirty-seyen cows sold s353.53
worth OF milk. / fed cheap food
silage. beet pulp and alfalfa My ex.
penses during the month OF Febru-
AIRY were si26. SO you can see what
my profit was. fed In February
fifteen pounds OF pulp, ten pound,
OF hay and thirty pounds OF silage
and feed cost for the month OF Feb
ruary was s126. Last year all my
neighbors were hailed out. My COWS
were producing. These cows never
hail out, dry out, freeze out nor
blow out. From the farmers stand.
point this Is the best thing I see
about n COW. The COW is always
there and always ready TO pay II you
treat her right. have lived In Col.
orado several years and you don,
: know when these hall storms come
up. Don't any OF you men buy cows
and expect them TO produce with
out feed-you sure have TO feed
them. / have talked to men who
said you could not feed this food
Hay that I paid IS for am clear.
Ing $40 on II. Keep every calf you
can get. II costs something like
SIS for milk TO put a calf on gras,
and hay. You can sell these calves
!. for something like $50 n head. There
Is nothing that will make you NOR,
money than keeping your calves. and
to day every calf or prosperity,
: calf I have is spoken for; that Il
males. believe that Is all / have
to say.