. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. MAKING THE MOST FROM A FEW COWS. Slelbi: TO* ; 10 0 of Erin: tilt» One o£ the many opportunities for beginners in farming is to keep only a few cows and sell cream, milk and butter to hotels and the private trade oi their own and nearby towns. Some private dairies have animals which clear 30 cents a day per head for 300 of the 365 days in the yearâa profit of $90 each every 12 months. All milch cows do not yield similar profits, for all dairymen and all cows are not alike In most cases, though, it is the man and not the cow who makes or loses the dollars in d
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. MAKING THE MOST FROM A FEW COWS. Slelbi: TO* ; 10 0 of Erin: tilt» One o£ the many opportunities for beginners in farming is to keep only a few cows and sell cream, milk and butter to hotels and the private trade oi their own and nearby towns. Some private dairies have animals which clear 30 cents a day per head for 300 of the 365 days in the yearâa profit of $90 each every 12 months. All milch cows do not yield similar profits, for all dairymen and all cows are not alike In most cases, though, it is the man and not the cow who makes or loses the dollars in dairying. Many a grand cow, well bred and worth a high place, has been ruined by having a careless owner. With better care the standard for each dairy in the country could be raised in a few years. A dairyman aims to obtain a nign nuality of milk and lots of it at a min- imum cost. Reliable statistics show that a cow that will not produce over 200 pounds of butter or an equivalent value in milk or cream is kept at a loss The average good cow produces 400 pounds of butter, and still better cows produce between 800 and 900 pounds. Murne Cowan, the champion Guernsey, produced 1,373 pounds of butter in one year, and a Holstem- Friesian cow, Finderne Pride Johana I Rue the world's champion butter cow of all breeds, owing to her enormous milk-producing capabilities, produced butter fat in one year equivalent to 1 470 pounds of butter. ' One o fthe main reasons why more people do not make a greater success of dairying is because they do not know the producing value of their in- dividual cows. In no business other than agriculture do we find business men depending on their investment foi a living who do not know just exactly what it is paying them. The way to determine the standing of a herd is to test each member of it separately by means of weighing her milk on a pair of steel yard scales or spring balance, and testing with a Babcock centrifugal tester The total cost of these app
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