The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1922-02-22
Says Pou1try-raising
Profitable Business

| The following communication is
from one Of tie big poultry men of
the county who says, "What About
Pouhry?" We are certainly glad to
! publish his letter end boost the po,,l
| try game in Grant county along with
| the dairy and diversified farming
| ideas No doubt there are others in
the county who have made money
from poultry and we would like to
hear from them.
WHAT ABOUT POULTRY?
Editor Herald Advance
In your last weeks paper we no.ic-
ed the account given of the profits
on certain farm in the county, in
which article casual reader might
| think that this man made over $2,OO'
on IL cows. Very true, we are very
J glad that there is one man in the
county who is note free but little
investigation might not come smiss.
We won't quote lot of figures,
they are bore to read, but take the
price Of a section OF land ard then
| figure 10 per cent. interest and sec
| what it amounts to. Milk 20 cow.
and see how many people it takes to
do the milking and feeding, net only
the work in the winter but in the sum-
mer as well when there is hay to make
for the stock and this hay and feed
take land that cannot raise other
grain. 100 acres go TO corn and we
venture to say that this is all fed tc
for feed considering the returns. 200
acres for wheat, leaving about 44O
acres for feed, l. c., 100 acres for
corn and no doubt there is consider
able oats raised which is fed, then 44O
acres for feed to sell $1,000 worth of
cream and a car Of hogs or cattle
This all sounds fine, but wait minute
said renter onlv gets half, the owner
+, hall. Then what about the interest
on the owners investment if he owns,
tie land, cattle ard hogs??? How
about the renter working section
which takes quite family figuring
milking etc.,-what about his time and
those who help him? After dividing
this thing up how does $1,000 cream
| money and a Ca cf hoes or cattle lock
hardy enough to make on break
any bank. We also noticed shat there
is 20 acres Of alfalfa foi hog pastuie
Of which the writer said. "tor fo,. or
five months in the summer The little
ligs cost little or moth ing to feed. as
VIC let them run inthis ilald Of alfalfa
Isn't 20 acres Of land worth any thing:
Ism 70 acres Of alfalfa worth amy
thine? Most anyone knows how much
hay can be made on a field after .oips
have been in it for or 5 months.
On the other hand, row much did q
car OF hogs bring last year after feed
lng them S1.25 corn and selling them
1t the low prices offered More so o.
cattle which had been fed this higl.
priced corn for two Or three years and
then sold last fall for q song, and per-
haps jazz song 1T that For example
just before Xmas 1921 we sold two
head of beef, one 81. years old and
one nearly 3, not fattened of course,
Just taken from the lot-we received
S26.,0 for the two. Where would we
have been had we fed much corn to
them? Less than week later we
sold 100 lbs. OF dressed poultry from,
which we received $19.96 net. At this
time prime cattle at st. Paul were
about $3.50 per hundred, dressed
poultry was about $1,000 per hundred.
Then let us look at the time and feed
! We will not attempt to Quote how
many spears of hay cow consumes in
a year nor how many grains of oats
she needs. but we will say that it
won't take very large herd of cows
to NOW away Is to 20 acres of hay