Show WEALTH allom COW S OVER TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR REALIZED facts and figures of interest to abe faiming and stock raising people of the united states D d ou ever sit down and figure said the man ath a pencil reports thi new YO bun jus how b s a wath the hilj e dairy cow cut in te or more properly peal IDE in acis country 7 if i i ha en t ou will doubt leo be surer ed to 1 now that she aoda a ear to our balth there are abou dairy coas 11 fie united states wh ch a yielding abo t 1 3 5 pounce of butter a year at 15 cents a pound this foots up over ire annual led of b ater ov s rounds and it tte tarra er 1 ne v how to f ed his cattle properly he cou d b ing this average to 01 poutoa or about the cost of the cow in the fr place 4 who have never in teolea ed or studied the na n a t r imag me taca all that Is ne ceary to feed a cow is abbout what 1 e he ought to hale the tact is that ever v mist fart have food for bod ma nt nance then whatever sl e gets oer and above that goes into milk or meat which depends upon tte breed it a cov is bred a ong calev lie that is it her ire is a full blooded daily an mal she will rot have the u ural tendency to convert into meat he excess of feed but will turn it out in milk if she i fed from ane t are drops her calf is re liar 3 milled aej made comfortable and contested fd the more feed she beets the more mi k ehe gives there s a good bit in beep ing any animal contented and happy es pec ally if she is a good some koiv tat euch an enor le cf buttaci as would resul from proper feeding of all thee cows would tr ng djin to the industry ind th i he oila feed is ex but the real result v be that american butter would find a big marl et in europe where we could under ell all home competition for instance in denmark it costs in round numbers abo it tw ice what it does in the northwest to produce butter in geimann the cost is but little ie than in denmark ano 0 o it n ns through the countries that offer tt in fact there is a lot of butter now being exported by the big cre arneri s and they find it easy to aberge 30 or 05 cents a pound the price abroad at pres ent proa b ts butter from gereral ue but with a production double what we now have we could afford to offer it abroad at a figure that would s ill arve us plenty of margin it will take a good many years though to bring the average up to even pounds to the cow ince m leh of the stock is poor and proper leeding is an fa thit the a ec it 01 and it difficult to propagate present are ho vever and the goo 1 ow ona that is properly mana ed wi net its owner from 0 to 40 a ear the b itter bu ass is rapidly drift ing into the hands of the b g creaden companies of which there are a large number especially in the wea and northwest they have not been raising the standard of butter but they have been gradually putting up th price they have stations scattered all mr easy of acce the fanner the owner of a dairy herd bui separator cepa that turns out the butter fat and the rat him a arx irim of 2 ants a pound for this the urn milk hp f acis to his p ps and every month the creamery s 11 tie check for about 9 W or three dollars a cow comes in ri |