The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-19
NEW SALEM POINTS WAY


NEW SALEM POINTS WAY
The farmer who keeps records always knows where he
stands In relation profit II his farming proves
Improbable he has diagnosis In his records and that
something 1t Is the rule, however. that farming
basis Of records does not fail It Is much like bust
that any devations intent the operator
generally be corrected he goes along and
\ keel thus be maintained.
This all Is truest when the farming OF the DIVERSE
fled type where beef dairy CATTLE sheep poultry and
gardening combined with the raising of grain and
fodder crops And the type OF farming that cannot
dispense with bookkeeping is that in which darying is
The main ptase
When this dairying is conducted on a circuit basis
and breeding Of herds the keeping Of records is still
important and proportionately enghtening in
revealing whether the individual operators and the
munity In general tending.
The New Salem Holstein circuit Is an example Of
this It keeps records It guides It's activities by these
They show not only that the circuit is prosperous but
they reveal by their evidence Of progressive results that
the daiymen Of this community constantly improv
ing their herds and their business.
The report fer 1928 just issued by speri: tcndcnt
Claude not only Il Of interest from the viewpoint Of the
record keeper but in setting forth the prestige Of this
organization There probably is dairy circuit
parable to that at New Salem in the entire Northwest
improves
the grade Of It's stock it gets greater from
year to the other.
The circuit has 16 members, 374 purebred female ami
mails, 10 herd bulls It received 1928
fat 430O2605 and the feed bill $l1 1921 leaving
profit Of $ls74664 The average income per 1927
was se535. In 1928 1t had been raised to $lo355
The. circuit also had another income This
in the sale Of surplus stock From 40 purebred
males sold the income ss7eoss sl7e25 each for
0adl1 hood Tho hoifo
sale Of ~ grade females brought In s225 average
@l0l14 The 50 purebred bulls sold brought in s556s50
/ Or 9o430 per head.
The association thus sold l2 head Of It's stock and
seived $l2,33s49.
Total receipts for butter fat and stock were
The average return to each member SO profit
on buterfat and with stock sales added average
e23o7S3. The highest amount going to any one owner
was $2,74330 and the lowest $ee694
Il Ten herds show more than 500 head profit.
The circuit has four that producing 500
pounds Of buterat year and 43 that pro-
ducing 800 pounds butterat per year. Thirty
one cows producing $50 pounds Of butterfa
hre producing 900 pounds Of butterat seven have
The envabe record OF producing pounds of buttera
per year.
It y shown by 2sl individual records kept throughout
The year. that l77ess7 pounds Of milk produced The
Total pounds Of butterfat was e4.0643.
There were 152 the circuit that were MIXED
over the month period. and the average pounds
milk from them $3.50 The average pounds Of but
teTat per COW 345 The average cost Of feed pei
COW was $oS.75. The average net profit per from
/ the 152 animals was $l0355
This record that deserves to be circulated It will
hearten wheat farmers who find grain growing longer
and that they must turn to diverscation to
btve It points the way to destiny for North Dakota
farming and bears out recent analysis by M Devine
comnnissioner Of immigration. in which that officia
showed diversified farming with its beef dairy cattle
Ds poultry and garden products creeping up grain
\ growing In almost equivalent returns.
The New Salem Holsten circuit report evidently is
ehaper out Of the future Of the states agriculture
4 Nell - . story u the present.