Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-12-29 | Page 82 | Teacher Turned Farmer Tries Sow, Cow, and Hen

V Teacher Turned i Farmer 4 Tries Sow Cow and Hen Kan Kaii UP UP American farmers who are harassed by a mortgage and ai waiting for con Kress giss to act ct In ln would find their their- worries Ver O-Ver combined corn com w nd th hen H H. A. A Dressier Dressler a former school teacher and now one of the outstanding farmers of tile tho tate state believes Dressler Disler i q the man who raised and bred this the first Kansas cow to pass the pound 1000 mark for butter buttor but but- tor ter fat produced In one year years ago he lie turned his back on the little schoolhouse where he had been teaching and started to His first move nove was to purchase pur pur- chase five excellent registered Hol- Hol stein heifers and a. a similar He paid on the average forthe for the liei rs and for for- forthe the tho 8 old month bull A cash cah payment of 2300 and anda a a mortgage of acres of land larid completed c the initial lion tion Tho cows have made it ble for me mc to cary a financial load lie ho explained in a period of n. n He struck a deal with a nearby candy manufacturer to sell sweet cream at a 7 cent premium over regular prices Skimmed his herd bend of purebred Duroc hogs and a a- flock of white Wyan Wyan- dottes three cornered combination has lifted the mortgage given the 5 DreaMers a a comfortable home borne pro provided pio- pio vided luxuries for his wife three boys arid and one ofle daughter and made him a. leader agricultural work He advises other farmers to abandon untested methods and follow fol fol- low his 1110