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Improve Your Corn and Cotton By Fiold GcloctlonPagc 2. i i: , ...... v V. ' Title Registered in U. B. Patent Office. A Farm and Home 'Weelcly for tlie Carolinaa, Virginia, Tettneaaee and Georgia. Vol. XXII. No. 29. RALEIGH, N. C, AUGUST 29, 1907. Weekly : $1 a Year. Which Kind of arejTou Keeping? Here are 1,021 cows brought home to the dairyman. See large picture below. He may not at first recog nize any of them as having strayed from his farm, and he may not be pleased with the herd as a whole, but for all that they are common cattle in Illinois, and he is an excep tional dairyman who cannot claim a number of them as his own. This type of dairy animal cannot be re commended without some reserve, but it must be admitted that it is holding its own, and the owner, re markably well holding him back from prosperity. This is not exactly the dual purpose cow, but her pur pose is far from that of the owner in keeping her. These cows do not usually stray away from the farm in such numbers as this ( more's the pity) , and the writer's reason for bringing them home in this way is not so much to restore property as to assist them to deliver an unwilling message, which, however, may bo of more value ji to the dairyman than the cows are themselves. ' What Has the Cow to Do With the Profit? Dairying properly conducted is one of the most profitable lines of f arm- V ...... A ? - KM " - I . - . -Courtesy of Sec'y F. L. Houghton, Brattleboro, Vt. THE .WORLD'S FINEST COW: COLANTHA 4TH'S JOHANNA, j A Holstein-Friesian owned by W. J. Gillet, of Rosendale, Wis., that re cently gave 5,326.7 pounds of milk and 260.5 pounds of butter in 60 days, beating the world's butter, record by forty pounds and representing ; the highest known development of the dairy cow. 25 COWS OF THE GOOD KIND . PROFIT $783. Twenty-five cows, each ' producing 301 pounds iE? to butter fat per year, fcYttiXTlrto return a profit of r93?tofn? $783. This j is the &&&S3 average production of SfiirECJf? 139 cows comprising the hpst fmirth rf onxvs in "Sfi- Illinois dairy herds. - The large picture shows exactly how many cows of the poor kind (1,021) it takes to return identically the same profit ($783) as the above 25 good cows. ing, but the actual relation of the cow and the herd to the clear money that the owner gets'out of the busi ness is as a rule neither known or suspected by the men depending on this occupation for a living. Very few uairyiueu eveu set. uuwu .me pay-. ments received for milk and the items of money paid out for the .whole herd, to say nothing of the individual cow's record or estimating the cost of the feed. But this station has been investigating the matter for several years, and the actual facts are . so surprising that it taxes all manner of presentation to show their bearing on the dairyman's profit. , Included in the dairy investiga tions of this station are the individual records for a full year of 554 cows in thirty-six Illinois herds. To make a large and fair comparison, take the lowest fourth and the highest fourth of all these cows. This is 278 head, of half of the entire number. The lowest 139 cows (one-fourth of all) yielded an average of 133 pounds 1,021 COWS OF THE POOR KIND PROFIT $783. j tfSST'to ?,EtaSF?to rto?E?to &9rsG? to SPccS? to GW&jsfto GP'v&xsWto Ttok?to G?v?lj?f7to (tofto ; 7toTOxstoiTte c?Svto GPrtf7to to &Vtetz&tet&& to GTOxr?f? to rtotfTte?to tfTtof? to F?to,5toP?ltofi?i?F51to toirjfFto GP'Sto to 5?iaf?fc tfteaErs tf"Stoe?to 'vtofto fc?a?E? r347 toTSfiSto 3ilWn?F?lto spUErfc? to ?T?Tc?f? to &V&t&&tW&&&G3&& Ttof?to Tfi7to to IS?1?!?? to irtosyirtoitoK?1 fftoff '5tofclStoi7tolg toVar?fR,v5isto(t tf37to llUlto?F7to fiTHfiy5 to ('SJistfy1 to K?Ta xrtosjfto (?iitofi?iastoto vUxtovxto' F?tol?tol7toVHafe? to'VtoKiaxitoto to rtoQl,mtoS?,a?to ?,Ic?S7ltoS?,a g'itoTtoftoC? ic?iyto ftoito rtoWl,aitoT3 to,5toVtoK?iactoll tcvto2Sr?f7 f? to fi7 'vtofv5 to 'wlf? SSSfSSff 'vSPto "ar??? to ftoigritoiyiisWto fi? to 'rtotoC?lvtov1 to to VtoR'to'vflii? to to gtofv1 to "toitoiijiytoPi?1 tfto3to7toStofito g'ttoto TSri to 7,v filiafftoG1 ,?lrtofy,?to jBtoi'itotoi'toto'BF l,astol?rto stofSkcrito fto HLitoTitf?fi? to G? StofiytoPtoGto tflV5U?fS3Uito7 tfj?to(itoC?,Ski of butter fat during the year, and the highest 139 cows1 .produced an average of 301 pounds of butter fat. One Goad Cow Worth 41 of the Other Kind. The Elgin price of butter the past five years averages 23 cents .per pound, and this is the usual price the dairyman gets for the butter fat in his milk, it costing the overrun to make the butter. At 23 cents per pound for butter fat the poor cows make an average return of $30.77. At! the low estimate of $30 per year for feed, this would leave 77 cents profit per cow for the whole year's work and investment. But the best 139 cows made an average income of . $69.32. Allowing these better cows $38 per year for feed ($8 better than the poor producers), the clear profit is $31.32 per cow. These calcula tions allow the skim milk, calf, and manure to pay for .the labor and in terest on the investment. r The profit from the whole 139 poor cows is only $107, but .the clear money from the best 139 cows amounts to more than $4,000. Every one of these: good cows averages as much clear money as forty-one cows of .the poorer kind. Herds of these two kinds would have to be kept in the following comparative numbers to produce exactly the same profit for the owner: One good cow equals forjty and two-thirds poor cows; fif teen good cows equal 612 poor cows; twenty-five good cows . equal 1,021 poor cows. Big Figures too Weak to Tell the Full Story. These figures sound big, but in their abstract form they are too weak to tell the full story. The accom panying pictures show the exact rela tive sizes of the two herds that would make the same amount of profit for the owner. The one contains twenty fives cows and the other 1,021 cows. They are all present to represent their value. In four and a half days each one of them earns one cent profit. It is only necessary to have enough of these earners to make a large amountof money! Thirty of them would produce the value of one acre of corn if the ground isn't too rich and the price don't exceed 5 0 cents per bushel. Twenty-five cows of the better kind would return the dairyman a clear profit of $783 per year. They could be kept on an eighty-acre farm ; they would require only a barn 32x45 feet and; a 100-ton silo, and the cows themselves at $70 per head would cost only 1,750 a very good little business. Mile, and a Half of Cows and the r ; Investment Required. : j But a dairyman could make just as much money (and no more) from the 1.021 cows of the other kind. How ever, the Investment would be some what different, and here are some of the details for the benefit of anyone ? (Continued on Page 4.)
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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