The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
DOES IT PA TO KEEP A COW NV TOWN AT THE PRESENT COST OF FEED?
Cow Owners Discuss Question Only Good Cow Makes Consumes But Tenth of Pint Daily Capita Compared With Country.

|, specting COW gives at least ten quarts of milk day, so she would earn in a month s60, or $40 over her board as ~rargia for time. trouble and deterioration in value.
 The figures for buying and keeping a COW for year will interest that check slgner back there, who was so sure Mrs Cow was an undesirable parsonage to have on the premises.
 Cost of COW .......--................. .$l00 O Interest ....---.-............,.,.. ,.......... 500 Foard ................. 240 %
 Total expense ...............s...... .ss4soo Credit by 3.0o0 quarts of milk
 af 20c ........................$ $500 01
 This means that Mrs. Cow has earned for you a porfit of about. $200. That allows S52 for incidentals Figures do not lie now any more than they ever did. These were secured from a number of people owning cows in vari- ous parts of the city
 WHAT COW OWNERS SAY When Dr. Bowling was asked what he thought of keeping cow, his an- swer was, T keep one myself. think it is distinct adantage for any family to keen a good, cow. A COW more than pays for herself, with reasonable care, and the children then are apt to get more milk and the other members of the family come nearer getting their share
 Milk is necessary to adults and this fact is sometimes forgotten when milk costs 20 or 25 cents quart
 The board of health encourages families to own cows" continued pr. Bowling. and to this end we place no restrictions upon it, except that the premises be kept AcIeanis
 Robert Jemison, Jr., who is especially interested in good stock, expressed himself from sentimental stand point: il keep two cows. I have hardly considered whether they pay or not. but 1t is more than probable that they do. However, I have a reason other than that for keeping them. l love animals. My cows are interesting to me, as more than mere milk pro- ducers For S52 month I can feed them and hire h man to milk them"
 q simply could not live without my cow" says Mrs. F. H. Gafford, who always keeps fine COW. You should see the lovely yellow butter I make and my buttermilk is famous Many of the doctors send their patients to me for it. Why, I sell enough buttermilk alone to pay half my cows board. It may not be any cheaper for me to keep COW because if I bought my milk I should not use 1t so lavishly. On the other hand think it's value as a food justifies its extravagant use" One family owning three cows quote their expenses for the past month as SIS.
 Mrs. Dupont Thompson of Woodlawn. who is very much interested in food values and who has. done effective work for the promotion Of pure food move ments in Birmingham, finds sthat her COW is profitable in demonstrating her food experiments. s MT Walker of Edgewood, who has been a 'cow-map for years, has but one opinion on the subject: My fam | fly would think they were starving If they could not have milk. And as for butter, why, we use a pound a day ~No mann, we would not live without our cows"
 When asked why he did not keep a COW, MT. Forrest explained that his only reason was that, he had no pos sible place for her to live and exer- else.
 When I keep a COW I keep a good one and the best COW will not come up to standard under poor conditions he said. ''Of course there is no use keeping poor, scrub sort of COW. It costs just as much. in fact more. to feed COW producing 159 pounds of butter fat a year as it does to feed one pro- ducing PTS pounds.
 q believe the best way at present to raise Birminghams two-tenths of a pint per capita to the prescribed quart is the private ownership of good. we'll kept cowe."