Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-01-25
Cheese and Butter Pay Well
on Ranch
COWS AVERAGE
OVER $3.50 EACH
Figures Do Not Lie, and Results
Show What Thrift Will Accom-
plish, Backed by Knowing
How - Fine Showing

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Home community who sometimes
feel like lying down and letting ma
ture take its course should consider
the case of John Bonecher, and take
brace in their systems.
Mr.. Bonecher, who bought piece
of land south of Mountain Home
about six years ago, now has one of
the most productive pieces of land in
the state of Idaho. With the assist
ance of his fine family of boys and
his busy wife he has not only man
aged to make a good living, but has
succeeded in making his name pret-
ty well known at the bank.
Mr.. Bonecher has for some time
realized that the future prosperity
of the country lies in the dairy ami
mails, and at the present time has a
herd of grade Holsteins, Is in num-
ber. He is milking IA of these ami
mails, and not long ago we nosed in
and asked Mr.. Bonecher Just what
his cows were producing for him. He
told us, and we pass it on for the
good it may do.
Mr.. Bonecher learned to make
cheese in the Tyrol, of which he is a
native. The methods require no ma
chinery, only the forms for molding
and the knowledge of how to carel
for the product while it is ripening.
The IA cows now being milked
produce a quantity of milk sufficient
to make two cheeses per day, thel
average weight being 13 pounds each.
This cheese he sells at the present
time at 80 cents per pound, amount
ing to $3.50 per day. The cheeses
are made out of the whole milk, and
Mr.. Bonecher some. time ago discov-
cred that he was feeding his pigs
considerable cream in the whey from
the cheese. Accordingly he tried the
experiment of putting this whey
through his cream separator, and
each day obtains enough cream from
this source to market three pounds
of good sweet butter, which readily
finds a sale at As cents per pound.
This brings the daily production
from the IA cows to 1925, or an
average from each COW, figuring but
80 days in each month, of $3.50 per
month.
In addition the Bonecher family
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ter, milk and cream which they need,
and they are noted for being good
livers.
Mr.. Bonecher tells us that the
quality of the hay fed to his COWS
this year is not as good as in former
years, owing to lack of water at one
time and the damp weather while
the hay was curing at other times,
and but for this he believes the pro-
duction from his herd would be much
greater per cow.
The Republican believes, however,
that 1880 per COW is a pretty good
record, and that many of our ranch
ers would do we'll to study the pro-
1uction of cheese as a way of mar
keting their butterfat.
Mrs. Bonecher has one of the fin
est focks of White Leghorn chickens
we have ever seen, and the egg pro-
luction from the 800 hens also adds
greatly to the family treasury.
The family at all times works as
init, and their success merely goes II
o show what hustling bunch can
10 when they are backed by the abil- is
ty to make the best of conditions. a
The ranch, house and outbuildings
ire we'll kept, and the father and "
ons have managed to make the soil g
-ield to its greatest extent. 5