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Show GREAT PROFIT IN DAIRYING. The Intermnuntaln Tnrmer and llanchmnn recentl) pill llshed an Item telling of an Oregon dnliy held nf sevens-four cows that averaged IxS poundi of butter to the cow In one )ear. The statement wns questioned by many, one good friend openly protesting pro-testing to the writer against publishing "such llshy stories " To show that the Oregon cows are not the onl) good ones wo present below some figures put out by tho Missouri experiment station, giving lesulls obtnlned from a number of dairymen In tint St tie. The bulletin bulle-tin n)s: , Ileports have been reirlied from a number num-ber nf clnlrjmen In tin Klate who are g. Itlng this largo an income (Ml to .() from their cows, and n. wnil report con-sl.lernlil) con-sl.lernlil) larger arl receipts Kittle A. H.ltles, l'ilmri, Mo, during l'wl from twentv resist, red Jcrse)i pro-ibi.e.l pro-ibi.e.l c ream and cuU.t to the value of JHi nn nverago nf ?"l la pr cow II C O.iodrlch of Cilhoun Mo , reports butter sales or 11 m pounds bringing J.'HIOO from thlrtv three Jersey cows, or an average of 172 Ta per cow II T Unrrls of Clinton, Mo, from six-lien six-lien Jersitn sold butt. r and cheese to the value ot HUM, beltiK an average of 167 50 per head 1: U Cooper. Trenton Mo , sold from twent) riRlstre.l lirw a bultcr and cream to the amount of JIJi" or H) per cow Oeorgo Koontz, Carthage Mo , front nineteen r. glsiered J rsi se.ld In the sear Mill 76K1 pounds of butter nnd aver-age aver-age of 3M pounds t r . ow 'Ihls brought a total Income or JI0J V or II1 31 per cow Ihe vilues of Hit -klm milk and the calves would make u considerable u.MI-tlon u.MI-tlon to this sum l.eoritc Kamirrans, 1'ilmvra. Mo, with nineteen registered Jerse)s, sold crenni to tho amount of JiB TS t.r cow and calces nnd pigs raised on skim milk to the amount of Jtl per eow, a total of 77 75 per cow, besides eight heifers kept in tho herd This list could be greatly extended front recent reports ree.lve.l nt this office from the leading dsirtmen ot the Slate, hut these will be sufficient to show whit may be done with proper care and good business bus-iness nnnnjement lt will be noted thnt In most of the eaees Just cited tho value of the skim milk nnd the voluo nf the calf for vial or to 110 raised If a helfir for dnlr) purposes Is not tntliided Thene are the ri turns fnr butter nlon When these Items are Uttured 111, It villi be clenr thnt thise .lain men are Kitting splendl I returns from their cows In mo.t of th.se enses the dalrvmin made and marketed mar-keted his own butler, which nf course Involves In-volves more work than when a fnctnrv be pntroiitu 1, but with n corrispondlitgl) higher return 'I he college herd nf twenty Jerse) hns slvin a total Income per vear of about Jta per cow the product sol 1 being butter but-ter klm milk and buttermilk If the above ri suits tan be obtained In Missouri the dulrmin ot Utnh enn do equally is well. Not one Utah cow In fifty nt pr sent Is avernglng up to the figures quoted above There arc three cardinal points that are nbsolute-1) nbsolute-1) essential to the lecordn made b) the Missouri elaliMnen, viz' good breeding, breed-ing, good feeding ind Intelligent handling hand-ling 110 requisite thnt Utah fnrtnero limy not ui pi) It the) will. |