The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-06
A i0-Acrc Dairy Farm.

Tho production OF 100 to ITO
quarts OF milk daily from 20 cows,
36b days In the year on only 10 acres
OF ordinary Tulsa land. soems to be
n miraculous performance, but this
In what is actually being done on 10
acres OF land one mile south OF Tulsa
on Lewis avenue, by John Deviin and
his wife.
Six years ago Devlin was n truck
grower and folks from Tulsa would
drive out to his place to buy truck
~ that time he owned an old brlndle
cow which cost him SOS. and along
with other purchases, the visitors
would usually ask for n bottle of
milk. This demand increased until
he had TO purchase other cows. Hc
has paid as high as $500 for an In
dividual cow but states that he
never owned n better milker than tho
old original brlndle COW that started
him In business
OF course. his 10-acre farm docs
not furnish winter feed except green
stuff, but except for two or three
months In the winter the 20 cows
that are milked have access TO plenty
OF green feed. Alfalfa hay is pur-
chased from nearby farmers. The
l0-acre farm Is not even burdened
horse. Purchased feed IL delivered
20 the barn and truck conveys the
milk to town, The cows have ac-
cses TO plenty OF clean drinking
water.
II might seem that q man and his
wife could do all the work necessary
on a farm of this size. but tho Dew
Inns find ~ profitable TO employ an
extra good man the year around,
FOR whose services they pny large
salary. A hired man does all of the
milking, cares for the cows and dc
livers the milk Dovlin cares
for the milk washing and sterillzing
the bottles. cooling and bottling the
milk and keeping the milk house
clean and sanitary, Mrs. Devlin
looks after tho details OF the husi-
ness, such Rs keeping the books.
collecting and depositing the money
and paying the bills. | have not
been able to find out exactly how
much profit the Dcvlins are making
yearly, but indications arc that they
are making more money than the
average ite acre farmer.
No calves are reared, DeVlin has
ridden as far as three miles TO
deliver calf to n neighbor as Il
present rather than kill u and feed
the carcass to tho chickens. lie is a
strong believer In good COWS Hc
emphasizes quality IN his milk and
has no trouble disposing OF all he can
produce.
Tho hired man was imported from
Wisconsin, where no has had long
experience on dairy farms. He does
two mems work and receives pay
accordingly, Altogether II Is 4 sue
ccsstul proposition that Yields profit
and that promises 10 continue in
definitely Tho trio Mr.. and Mrs
Dcvlin and tho hired man, are all
well pleascd with their work and
each of them has time daily for
reading and recreation, but tho cs-
scntial duties are studiously per
formed az exactly the right time
on this l0-aCre farm Dovlin and
his wife got their first experience
In the dairy business Before be-
coming a trucker Devlin was An up
hClstercr hy trade. He states that
his education In dairyinR has been
received very largely from consist.
emily reading Hoard's Dairyman
through the entire six wears that
he has been In the business. An In
terviow with him now easily dis
closes the fact that he is especially
well informed on every phase OF tho
dairy business
\ Partnership In Bees
Three years ago Paul c, Meyer.
secretary of the Tulsa County Free
Fair association, on leaving his
ranch, entering into n partnership
agreement with Dave Shaeffer. took
seven stands of bees 10 Shaeffer's
homo, three miles Northwest Of
Keystone The first winter two
stands NJ bees died From this start
they have at present SO stands Of
bees in good, new hives The first
year nearly five hundred pounds Of
honey were produced. Last year
something Ike seven hundred pounds
were made, but much OF this was left
In the hives as bee feed SO far no
honey has been taken out this year,