Show DAIRY CATTLE SO SOLVE VE PROBLEM OF SURPLUS lIA HAY Y Farmers find milking herd more provable than if they had disposed of surplus feed at high market Here is a hint of what farmers must do It is a report from Montrose Montrose MontrOSe Mont- Mont rose county Colo where farm farmers erE have been hit as they have here great quantities of feed with no cattle cattle cat- cat tle in the county to to consume it and freight rates prohibitive I I The inability of the farmers tc dispose of f their surplus hay during last season because of the low price paid for th this s commodity has force many to enter the dairy bus iness mess This will result in great bene flit to the county J. J C. C a prominent farmer far mer mor who had more more than acre in pasturage found that that he had large surplus of hay without an market for it He realized that i r herd of dairy cows was the only was waso wax wa o o 0 use it at a profit Therefore he he bought twenty one head of Holstien cows and has l as after a few months' months experience tha the herd is gradually eating away aw i hiis sto stock k of hay and bringing in ir greater returns than if he had sold the hay on even a good market He has installed modern milking mach macho inert Mr and other farmers farmers farm farm- ers who have purchased dairy herd herd- during the last few months are arc firmly convinced that the Uncompahgre Uncompahgre valley is an ideal place for dairying and that eventually dairying dairy ing will be one of the leading industries industries industries in in- of rural l w western tern Colorado Steamboat Pilot |