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Show . -o COST- OF PASTURING A COW. In the cow census reports, oqc is struck by, he modest changes, men make for the pasturage of their cows, five dollars or thereabouts, which, whqn considered as it should be, is next to a complete donation to the cow. There is a great difference in sayingTlhat a cow can be pastured for 20 cents a week, and determining exactly ex-actly what it docs cost. In Hue finst place, the average cow in Northern Ohio is being summered, on five acVcs of -pasture. This must be added to largely in fact from spiling crops and grain. Thssc acres ate worth not far frpmY $35 each, often selling bcUcr 'jltjian this. Six per cent, on this amount is $10.50. The average tax would be $4.32 more, or a1 total of $Ut82; of course, an offset of some sort should be made for the daisies, buttercups, blackberries and iron weed that grow on; these acres, better valued val-ued by their owner? than the assessor. If interest on capital and taxes are to be made donations to the cow in part, why nor wholly; and so give this cow five or more dollars to her net prqits, ' and! scale downi the bookkeeping" by that much. This brings,' up ;this ,mattcr of nas-turage nas-turage from another point of view. It seems as if the pastures hereabouts 1 ?aom$ intojfcgrazing later satihiyear, and more areage is resuired. With the advent of the silo, much meadow land was made pasture land, and certain cer-tain it is, never so much grarin -was ever before fed in summer as nowadays, nowa-days, nor asi great an amount of soiling soil-ing crops in late summer and fall. It meatus more capital in land and labor to keep a cow in the summer, and if the real facts could come out in your cow census, I am eonvinccd that it costs actually more to summer than to winter a milch cow. What is to be done in this matter? Abandon the pastures and summer silage the cows, or shall there be an -attempt to rejuvenate these old lots? Where there is rotation of crops, and new seeding, the meadows seem to produce as well as of yore, but there is a steady falling off in pasture production, pro-duction, and more foul growth, and , the cows take longer walks for a full meal, which, in fact has to be completed com-pleted at the manger. Is not too much of our later dairying a matter of robbery of the mrny acres for the replenishing of the few? Here is a matter which needs quite as close study as the improvement of the quality quali-ty of our dairies, for one with, even a better dairy and a gicatly increased cost of keep, because of waning resources re-sources and more purchase of foods, is scarcely better off than the average aver-age fellow who donates the cow her keep and counts .ill milk sales as gain. John Gould iiv Hoard's Dairyman Dairy-man i i ' n 1 . j |