The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-02-03
NEEDS A MANAGER.

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fers to remain in the dark to make
his attack, burst into print in the
Washburn News last week under the
style and name of Zone of WASH
burns Dairymen" thereby hoping to
make his attack and throw the blame
on the reputable milk dealers of
Washburn who would not attempt to
cover up if they had anything to say.
1t is not very often that the Times
considers it worth the while to an
swer these might owls" who Sink
around in the dark and probably
borrow or steal copy of the Times
in order to find out what we have
to say, but there is a little advice
which we might give this person
that would be valuable to the farm
er readers of our paper.
This incognito claims to keep a
herd of ten milk cows, to which
he fed $4,000 per ton hay at the rate
of $3.50 per day and middlings and
corn to the value of $1.63 per day,
making a total feeding charge for
the month of December, amounting
to $128.O3, claiming to have sold
the milk at wholesale prices of Toe
per quart for which he received a
total of 1920, butter sold amounting
to $500, making total income of
$177.40, from which he deducted
the feed cost of $12s.03, leaving a
balance of $48.37, from which half
was charged off for interest, taxes,
etc.
From these ten cows he claims
that the average milk production per
day for the entire milking season
would be about $50 pounds of mix,
which figured into quarts amount to
about four and a quarter quarts per
milking per cow. Then he asks the
Times editor to mind his own bust
ness and let the milk dealers handle
theirs.
From the statements made by this
man he evidently needs some one to
show him how to get more money
out of his cows ON the same amount
of feed and the same milk produc-
ton.
Figured into quarts the total pro-
duction from his herd according TO
his own figures, is about 85 quarts
per day, which he claims to have
sold at loo per quart wholesale, for
which he received total of 1920.
Had this man any thing under his
bonnet more than "buzzing" he
would have saved the labor and ex-
pense of bottling his milk and taken
his product to the plant of the Wash
burn Creamery where he would have
received at the rate of $3.50 per
hundred pounds and received a check
for the milk production amounting
to $3.50 for the thirty days.
Had he sold his milk at the rate
of ten cents per quart wholesale as
he claims to have done, he should
have received $263.5O for the thirty
one days production of December.
But this is not the point we wisi.
to make. There is either some
thing wrong with this mans her Of
cows or there is something wrong
with his feeding, for the average
cow should produce upwards of 1000
pounds of milk yearly and a good
COW should produce much more than
this, and this man, by his own
figures, endeavors to show to the
world that he is keeping a bunch
of boarders in his barn that should
have gone on the meat block long
before this and been replaced by
cows that would more than earn
their living.
Then further this nameless being
claims that it takes him an average
of hours per day, 81 days per
month, to milk the cows, wash
bottles, bottle milk, and make de-
livery to town, and is it any wonder
he fails to make living for his
babies.
His net income according to his
own figures, is about 81a cents per
hour for labor. We would advice him
to give up the cows, start raising
Onions or selling peanuts, for he
would probably earn more money.
The Times man could take this in
cognito to many farms near Wash
burn and put this question to the
farmer: "What would you do with
cows that did not average more than
four and quarter quarts per
milking for the season." and his
answer would invariably be 'Send
them to the butchers block before
they had another meal" and we
would advice this man to do likewise.
That would be the sensible thing.
But he would rather tack on cent
or two a quart for milk in order to
make up for his own shortcomings,
and then criticize the other fellow
because he objects.