| Show GOOD COWS PAY and by the same premises poor ones are a loss to the owner 4 during we the past season this comina anity has had an object lesson on profit and loss the peach growers purchased their box timber in anticipation of a big harvest and made preparations to 0 o handle the greatest crop of fruit in the history of the cor the fungus came along and ruined a gr great ea portion of tile the crop the good fruit that was sent out in the beginning 0 af the campaign sold for a small profit but as the season advanced the market got worse until finally f the last cars car shipped out did not bring enough to pay for the freight so when the fruit growers got the returns on their summers harvest many of them found that they had not made enough to pay for their box and were in debt tor for freight charges on their fruit be side making it necessary to draw from some other source to meet the ille expense ot of the handling wl ail unprofitable fruit crop I 1 we have often made the statement and we are willing to go on record once more that seventy five per cent of the cows jn it this community compel their owners to draw from some other source to keep them alive f from rom year to year lu in other words seventy five cows out of 0 every hundred that are milked in and immediately around this city dont produce enough butter fat in a Y year to pay for their keep to say bothin nothing about returning a profit to their owner how many fruit growers would continue to raise peaches if each years experience would prove the same as the last one and yet there are undoubtedly many 0 of those same fruit growers who are keeping cows that dont do any better for them then their fruit did this year relatively speaking A cow to pay for her keep alone must produce pounds of butter tat lat in ill a year until she has produced that amount she is a loss to her owner it if she does not produce more than that amount she does not return a profit prof it but simply pays her way in th the e world and is not a good investment it be a difficult matter to get a cow of the right breeding to produce from pounds and upwards of butter tat fat in ili a year and where that is done the animal Is returning a profit of per cent it pays to breed to the test best in every case and by paying a little attention to this matter grade stock can be improved with very flattering clattering results where it can be done the purchase of a pure bred calf as the foundation of a dairy herd is mighty profitable and in ili just 1 a few years the herd will be established the pure bred strain are the money makers for they return the profits and cost no more to keep we were talking with a gentleman the other day who imputed a pure bred guernsey heifer from wisconsin at a cost of 00 and beginning at two years of age that heifer produced 50 cents in worth orth of mink per day and since slie she became the property of this gentleman she has brought him in 1100 from her calves alone when she arrived at the home town of her present owner sh was the laughing stock of the village but alter after she began to produce milk and ad drop calves all the dairymen wanted to buy her and a market never has to be sought for be calves it has been esti estimated maed that a cow produces 14 worth of fertilizer in a year and it is well understood by all ruit fruit growers that the soil must bg be fertilized every year or it will soon N near ear out with a herd of good cows the fruit g grower r ower would have a double safeguard in providing fertilizer and also a revenue that would even up things when the fluit crop fa fhi ed have your cows tested ic steil tanners farmers slid pud fruit growers and sule whether r yoi voi vo i have not been freight charges on them for a number ot of years past dairying and fruit growing go hand in hand and they should be operated jointly but be sure the cows are good |
