The Holly chieftain., 1923-03-22


this season, his beets
only making nine tons per acre.
while his average beet crop in
term of years is over II tons per
acre He also grows fine wheat,
averaging yearly from 40 to GO
bushels. This year from As acres
of hailed grain he threshed AIS
bushels. but his beet teps and hay
through his dairy keep him on easy
street this season. His November
returns from his dairy were $2l4.00.
He is milking from Is to ls COWS
throughout the season. One 10
acre field he seeded to alfalfa this
season had been In beets for IL
years in succession. AS he had
grown an average of II tons per
acre on this land by applying plen-
ty of COW manure, Charley felt hurt
when we crcitiZed this as a poor
system of farming. We believe had
this land been rotated at proper In
tervaIs with alfalfa and grains, his
beets would have averaged over ~
tons instead of H.
A Cow Producing 81 Per Day
Barley will starve out nematodes
luicker than any other crop, and
rolled barley. with silaEe, beet tops,
ETC., is the best grain rotation fol
airy animals and barley is hard to
beat for horse feed.
The State Agricultural College
l,Ow Testing Association showed In
.heir 1921 report that Charles Dye
ows netted $l43.1l and in 1922 $llo
average. From $40 to $l2 per month
per cow is a very good income.
Abe Willis, another small dairy
nan handed us his check for Nov
amber milk. The amount was SIG
o and represents. the milk from
our COWS. This is an average OF
3 .9.0T per COW, about $1.0O per day
per COW. This is by far the high
at amount per COW that We hav'
my record Of this season, more
;han double the average. Several
years ago Abe bonght 9 COWS cost
ng $4,000 and started dairying. at
.he end of the year he gave 1t up
aud sold ont He realized for his
lairy s2s5O.00 or an increase OF
tl,G50.OO and in that year he sold
$4,000 worth OF, milk an average
of $685. per month per COW. He
IS starting again and from the looks
of his November COW record, we
viii say. he has selected some good
ones.
Beet Tops Increase Milk Flow
Banker Letford states that the
Iairyman in the JOhnstown dis
rict are nearly all beet growers
nd good ones, as their average ton
,age shows, and the advent of the
Condencary was the start OF their
success.
We visited Mr.. Redmonds 40 acre
:arm at Mead. and found very
successful farmer and dairyman'
Mr. Redmond handles the 40 acres
and dairy alone Here different
situation confronts us than at John
stown, and that Is Il shortage OF
water some seasons. and the past
season was one of the worst on re-
cord. There was not sufficient wat
er to fill reservoirs in fall and spring
of 1921 and 1922, and as their direct
water is late appropriation, they
had very little water the past sea
son, resulting in very light crops
His beets made IL tons per acre
which is much better than the ave
age of the district. He usually
crows in normal seasons Il tons per
acre. He piles his tops in small
niles few days after topping. and
cures tIltiII III that WY N''"
them now stacked in sandwich form
with straw. With the addition OF
pulp his cow feed is all grown on
the farm. He came to Meade coun-
ty three years ago and started with
one cow. He ept adding to this
and has 9 milk cows now and as
many calves and yearlings. He
has three Guernseys and the bal
ance are grade ShOrthorns His
milk is truckcd to Platteville which
costs Is cents per 100 pounds. His
returns from I COWS for the year
after paying haulage were Ss9i and
average of $l0.64 per COW per moth.
HE intends to eliminate his grade
COWS and have one breed of stock,
and all registered animals. | have
tried to get the value of beet tops