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Show A GOOD COW. Prof. F. B Llnfleld Is stirring up the farmers of Montana Just ns he did the Utah people to a realization of the vnlue of a good cow. From an article In the Bocky Mountain Husbandman we clip the following What Is a good cow? A cov that will glio 6000 pounds of milk and 250 to 300 pounds of butter In a )ear. Thero are such things us poor cows, cows that will not pay for their feed let alone for the care bestowed upon them. A man Is a fool who milks such a cow and yet lots of people arc doing It nnd do not know It-Three It-Three hundred poundi of butter? What does this mean? At 25 cents per pound It means J73 from that cow every enr: at 20 cents per pound, JC0, nnd we have the calf and the sklmmllk In the bargain To feed such a cow Is not an expense Item even In Montana. She will cat three tons of clover hay nt J5 per ton, 115: 1000 pounds of grain at 1 per 100, J10, and pasture five months at U per month, J5, or ISO for the year. I believe these prices are liberal and I know the feed Is, )ct nt 20 cents per pound for butter the returns are f2 for one on tho cost of the feed A man has 100, 200 or 300 acres of land. He feeds the crops grown to the dairy cow and gets HO and a calf. He sells the crops and gets 30. Is the game worth the candle? This return cannot be had, however, If the only shelter provided for tho cow In winter Is the lee side of a barb wire fence, or If her bed Is a snowbank. Nor Is It to be expected If the straw stack has to provide her dally diet and the small or big boy on horse back with a dog nre to be dally companions. How to get these cows? Walt, not too much at once We will talk of that another time. |