The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1921-12-22
HOW TO GET
S12.W 4 TON
FOR Hay
Agricultural Head of Rural High
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la Community

ny EARL woOLRIDCE

After raising the annual crop the
big problem that, confronts the Am
erican farmer is TO selling il al a
profit This has been true during
the last two years and more espec-
tally in the Twin Falls country. with
excessive freight rates.
One reads and hears a good deal
these days about feeding the farm
products 10 his stock. Eastern farm
ors are getting more for their corn
by selling it through dairy cows.
steers, and hogs than would be- pos
sibie by selling il To the elevators.
There il also big movement on foet
10 bring dairy cattle into this coun-
try.
A little careful thought and figur
ing prove very exclusively that the
dairy COW is an excellent purchaser
OF farm products. As compared with
the markets. she can pay more for
corn and grain and save you the ex-
pense and trouble of the haul TO
town. Here Is one place where the
farmer has the market largely under'
his control
The annual report of the Pioneer
Cow Testing association for Twin
Falls county shows that the average
tested eow for this community produ-
cos 2G.3S pounds of butter tat per
month II also shows that she gives
an average OF 22 pounds OF milk per
day Such COW would require APP
proximately 20 pounds Of alfalfa and
& pounds of oats or harley per day
for balanced ration. on this basis
Il would require her eighty days 10
consume ton Of alfalfa hay. and.
during the time she would eat 400
pounds of grain. During the so days
she would produce 7032 pounds of
butterfat which al Ss cents per
pound would he valued al S2s.T2.
Nearly sixth OF the feed was oats
and one sixth of the s2s72 would
give s4.45 for the 400 pounds or 80
cents per bushel This leaves ss22.-
2. which this average COW VIII pay
for one ton OF alfalfa hay
There t.. a. course. a great differ
ence in COWS and the cows which
gives the most milk with the largest
per cent OF bntterfat will pay the !
most of her feed Some COWS pro-
duce as little as 4co0 pounds OF 4 :
pr cent milk in q year. while there
may have been COWS which produce
as high as 81 goo pounds in year.
These latter would pay much more +
or their feed. For all practical pur- I
poses a COW which does not give at !
least 1000 pounds OF milk per year 4
hould not be used as a milk COW. :
The farmer in selling feeds 10 dairy
COWS has a wide choice OF markets for
i is the amount OF milk that the COW
produces that determines What she
viii pay fer her keep.
Some would raise the point that Y
abor. taxes, interest on Investment.
&c. should be considered. but to
,ffset them. there is the manure and
he calf which under ordinary eirc.H
dances viii approximately balance.
The community "a dotted With
stacks Of alfalfa hay and good
nany grain bins are full There does
lot seem any probability Of market
or these products and there il Al
sraas chance TO feed some of fhts.
,roduce OF course. one would do
sell "a remember that figures 10 noti
odd true in all cases ann that 90 Al
arm. there are many dsierminiugs
zctors There i great deal y
rafh. however. ia the foregoing fig
res aud lhey should mean something
o an farmers