Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume], February 28, 1890, Image 4

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COST OF it0OUOIN MILK.
A Islremu's Utuing Vlgues Ab he
Cm e k Db.r laadr !Os.sA
ceaseer Wto h r a.
Numerous mistatements have been
publishe, concerning the cost of pro
ducing milk, and now that the fight
of the diiiyz.man for self pvrervation
has begun, it is time to show the pub
lie peecisely how matters stand on the
farm. Few farmers keep accounta.
As Nathan W. Howell, of Blooming
Grove, Orange county, says, the man
jority of farmers know how much
money they've got and how much
they owe, and that's about all they
can tell you at the end of the year.
Inquiry ninoug half a score of good
men in this neighborhood failed to flnd
one who could produce a book todsow
his gains and losses for the year, but all
united in expressing the belief that
Oscar W. MapeS had everything down
in black and white. Mr. Mapes lives
about four miles from this place on a
farm which cnables him to keep body
and soul together, and, with the help
of his wife and two nearly grown
sons, to support a family consisting of
a wife and three sons. the youngest
boy being just old enough to mind a
clf. The writer called on Mr. Mapes
recently and had a talk with ham.
The farm consists of seventy acres of
good Orange county land, and the
consists of fifteen cows.
"What are your cows worthf" Mr.
]apes was asked.l
"I should say about $40 apiece," he
'"What is the average annual yield
of milk l"
"For a cow past 4 years old, 3,000
quarts."
"What does it cost you to feed a
cow a yearr'
"Just for the feed alone it coste me
$40 if the cow is dry in summer, $41 if
she's dry in winter."
"How many months in the year arm
your cows in milkf"
"On an average, ten months."
"In estinmting the cost of keeping a
cow, what iece do you allow for hey
rad rmain I
"For hay $10 a ton, for grain, $15 a
toln."
"What kind of grain do you user
"I feed a mixture of wheat bran,
dried brewers' grains dried glucose
meal and hominy meal, equal prts by
weight. giving each cow thirteen
ounds a day--ix and one-half pounds
in the morning six and one-half at
nighL That's for the winter. In the
summer they get half that much.
They ý'rLt jpsturage about five months
in the year. worth at the market price
$1.50 a molthl."
"Now. Mr. Mapes. we'll do a little
rin". The average monthly price
in 1800 was 3 fl-100 cents.
The yield of one of your cows at that
prie would bring n $77.40. Now for
te outgo. The cow's feed coe you
1i0. You had to hire some one to
look after her, milk her, a et her
milk to the station Whatdid that
cost your"
"Well, one man can look after
twent cows, and you have to pay
him ºU a month. He must have
somebody help him milk. my three
hour a day. That would be $ a
month mowe, making p7. ti
mate that for seven mouths in the
ar. For the other five months mae
at month, as the wagesol the Bre
man during that time would be only
O5.P"
"That makes P$a year for labor."
"Divide it by twenty to get the oast
of tending to one cow,
"Just $18.85 a cow.
"All right. That's what I make it.
Now. as to getting the milk to the sta
tion. 1 calculate that it costs mejust
$ 8 a cow. and for drawing the feed
from the station to the barn,. why.
that's $2 more for each cow."
"Then tlere are the cans."
"Oh, y. C'ans cost $ apiece, and
you'v got to have at least one can to
the cow. You'd get along better with
a can ard a half, which makes $1.50
to the cow. Acan lats four or eiv
year, so call the expense $1 a year."
"Then there's the Interest on the
cost of the cow."
"Yes At 0 per est that would be
"An dwhat of te d ctioudof
the cow? You must be yIt new
ows all the time and sellig old
ones that are worn out."
"Outainly. I estimate that at about
"You loa rt of each eow's
by bad debts. mHow omb b th
"I lose ve littl bea I am very
eareful whom I ll to In the lat
heen ears .P ve lost only t1O in
"Wel all the espmsem faoot up es.
astly *d
' that from the money the milt
brinPI LIthe market price and you'll
.ve the amount that I cleated em
emob of my cows last y.ar."
"*CaW't d, it. Mr. M.pes The milk
latbced only $17.40. whlch makes you
out a loser to the extent of sixty coats
on each rc,., or $9 on the herd. 1
don't sam how your dairy can pay ou
at those fNircs. But bold on, Mr.
Males wlnlt about the calves? Doesn't
o cow drop a calf every yearf"
"Of cou re. I thought there was
somethij left out. I slla tim ealf for
. That makes the diloreaoe."
"Yes. Th:at makes eah cow ear
the amauigsumaof dt1.40 year. Your
hay brings you ln .L"
'That' about it"
"rw on eath ea you spport a
o II dwon't supporI t pthew o
uar I advise al other k pn-o
deasers to do the rudas to
r.No is e sN o mast es.
ca w.' A
.q i ,m
THfY'R? NOT ALL WIA[.
tilent Mith May t' mSe . th.e Vetm. best
They io.t, Vall t I.en th.ned to prLak.
Tile ;iwiit I 1:I11 inile'(|th better than
he kino\ethll. 1i nPrlquirls weaulth, re
ltatitln iluld I! iorlt of NoI m tity. His.
fort, i. kcliniZ quiet. lie is the orig
inal of the Ilet who said: "Silence is
golden."
But Sir Boyle Roche, the author of
that faluoer lrish bull about the man
who put his foot In it every time he
opened his mouth, plainly outlived
the ulthiu1,t fatte of the silent man.
For that in flie i vanriable fate of near
ly all the menl wlhoe entire reputation
rests on teh rocky foundation of si
lence. Lucky lie who has already
achieved a ,omnpetenoe on the strength
.of his bileCue.
In nine cuaw out of ten he talks too
much when lie talks at alL lie giver
himself away. so to sqak. le makes
a braying donkey of himself; his rep
utation vanishes into thin air. Every.
body says: "I always knew he was
fool!" And everybody goes compla
cently about his business, and the fate
of the silent mani is sealed. Nobody
can forgive him for once having mad~
a fool of hineself, bicause nobody can
forgive him for having made a fool of
everybody else for many yean.
And still the silent man waueth fat
and prosprous. lie is one of the
towers of strenigth in any community.
When all the other men have had
their little say. nore or lcI eloquently
and to the point, the silent man alone
has not spoken. All eyes turn to him
for refutation or confirmation of what
has been said. But it is not his cue to
spe~ak. le has his reputation for s=
penor wisdom to maintain, and hence
be keeps his mouth shut And every
man about him thinks: What asuper.
ior mani he is.
lowever, as was remarked before,
there is generally a day when he '1
found out. To illustrate: Several years
ago a young man went to the general
oiiet of one of our leading railroad
Coopaluies in town. He wasthe bearer
of strong letters of recommendation
from an old friend of the manager in
a small rural town. The letters re
ferred especially heavy to the disere
tion-"uuuAual for his years"-of the
young man, on his marvelous capac.
aty for keeping his mouth shut. Th
manager, who had been on the look
out for just such a young man, at once
gave him a Ixerthl in his private offee.
iHe prospered uimazingly, for all that
was required of him was to exercise
his natural talent-keeping hismouth
shut. The manager swore by him.
Other men in the office caught the in
fection. Every clerk caune to look
upon Mr. Tyttlipps-let us call him
Tytelipps for short-as a phenomenon,
as a model young man. Everybody
marveled how this country bred young
man had acquired so much wisdom.
Thus Mr. Tytelipps rose, step by stop,
and his mliry with him. One day he
was inducted into a high and memusi
bie position, commanding an almos
princely remuneration.
For a little while it was all right.
ie continued to keep his mouth shut.
But there was a turn in the tide. At
a directors' meeting smae information
and suggestions bearing on the better
worki, of the deparment who
head . Tytelipr had shortly i
a was ca led oi. Mr. Tyelicpi' a
aistant, a man who had grown ray in
the service of the company and who
knew ail the ins and outs of the do
prpiment to a T (but who had the mba
fortune to ones Ia awhile talk too
much), was ick at home. So Tyt.
lipp limlf had to rmpond. Adl
when the questions had been fired at
him and the board was waitin to be
enlightened, Tytelipps shook his head
sagely, coughed and he.med and
hawed. That "didn't go. lie had to
do some talking. Then the directors
unanimously came to the conclusion
that TytAlipps was a monumental as
and ought to be bounced. And he
was bounced not long after. At lent
he was redluced to the ranks. But he
couldn't stand this loWg. lie went.
and when last heard from he was ped
dling matches or apples or somethong.
-Chicago hcrald.
"Dem' Wab. Wh.."
Forty ycars ago the leaderof the
New Yrk bar was Georg Wood
Iwhose grve deportment ad hea o
losing is eyes when n thought gve
him an owlilh appsarace.
One days geutlemna called an Dan.
el Webster, who had temporarily for
akens politics and resumed the prme
tleod law, to retain his servi aa
cae involving a larl gem s mousy.
Mr. Webster in esoosting the re
tainer, aked wat counsel was to op
pose him.
'O" " answeed the eUnt. "he is
moe New York lawyer, with a com
mouplace, every day nam which I
11What sort of a looking pasos i
ber"
"Rather a see looking ma."
"Yese tha Is hls ",
"Tbw," joned Mr. eWobster, with
umhmP wdon u phim upt"-
Youth's (mpanion.
"Thee Dar d Surk."
"Walking well is often ai anfai of
boots," says Henry . Trollope.
"These boots shouldl ot oply be com
fortable and easy to our feet," con
tinued Mr. Trollope, "but they shoutd
be well made. Another tery impo
ant thing to reellct is not to walk in
deed Moks. I sarted for reat St
BDmapd and walled into MoUiquy.
My fe wr so to, afterwand tat I
oild not put ona boot for ea dan.
Aad all frm thoe darned oeks"
Gtalsman M's
Aba w am thw oft the old
l -a Te w -he d thWmI L
but tei wbrm tMl tio
_M HBe wa s M
^^*.mpless- ^W* O^ ^
asses aM y-- ltu
The AU age Itslke.
A reot manly people are unable b
ride ou clnv,!tor canton account of the
fueling that their hbarts and souls are
Lbin;g pIll'l out of tlhm when the
numchinmo st art to dElp. People with
heuart iffe'tioni un froquently forbid
deni by thcir IybieiIns to ride in the
cars. and it is diaigreeable to thou
sands who ride in spite of it to save
time and legs in the big buildinge of
the city.
A well known lawyer. who has a
very level Ihead at mot timne, admits
that hii head feels empty when the ele
vator starts down, but claims to have
diasovered a very simple mechanical
trick by which Ihe avoids thl e all gone
feeling. He is willing to have it sugN
gestl to his fellow mo,rtals anony
mously and in no other war.
"1 take a long breath. he said,
"just as I step on t.he elevator, and
hold it with a tight Ipr.n.ure. Then,
just r« the elevator Itijnm to sinuk, I let
it out exaitly with thle miotionl of the
car. The quicker the ear starts the
quicker and harder I pre., out the air,
anid I don't feel us if mliy soul had
fliown out of my collar: inl fact, I can
avoid the least disareeable senu
Another gendeman who tried the
experiment vouched for the results in
has case. "Don't imagine that you
have to blow so that everybody else
in the carcall hear you." hessid. "All
you need to do is to hold the Ieath
tightly and let it go noiselessly out
the nose. I think the sensation is due
to the sudden change of pressure of
blood in the heart and head, and the
compression of air in the breathingor
gans offset that pressure by reaction
when the car staria."-Philadelphli
Inquirer.
Ol . vaiIas from a listma.
The observations made during night"
-masions. or thoms, which were con
tinued into the nilght, on temperature
at different .ighIh. gapre results dif.
ferent tfr:: the theories previously
held on the subject. An ineease.
the temperature with the height wa.
noticed after sunset. The rate of de
cline of temperature with elevation
when near the earth was subject to
variation as the sky was clear or
cloudy. Fr.on an elevation of three
miles cirrn clouds were Peen apparent
ly as far above the observers as they
seemn when viewed from the earth,
and that Ial;lter such conditions that it
was hanr to believe that their presence
was due to moisture. The audibility
of sounds from the earth depended
considenrbly on the amount of moist
ure in the air.
The noise of a railway train an ao
heard in clouds four mnili hig.h, but
not when the clouds were farbelow.
The diseharge of a un was beard at
10,000 feet; the barking of a dog at
two miles; but the shouting of a mul
titude at not more than 4,000 fet
Many differences n the resumlt o oh
servations were supposed to depend
on atmosphaerie coditons, while
Svry with the ti of day ad
the season of the year o thata grat
many observations would he mui d
to ditermine thei tre law. laving
followed up one of the obsernsato
secorded above with a captive balloon
.1d other meaus. Mr. OGisber o
W the Meteorological sOCiety,
in 1870, that thie theory that the ten.
p tu is away lower at hiher ele
Lvatira Is not tru.e.-Pbpla Siene
Monthly.
The laced novelty in tbe veetmable
line is the introductoa d of edibl flo*
er. The two which ae said to be the
ms moaisfactry belong--aeit omen I
-to the thistle family and rejoice in
the nams of igonu m polygunoide
and bIstia lati(fla. The popular fa.
vor of buth English and French seems
o be .iund toconquer in the ean of
the new dishes, but doubtles all will
come in time. It is related of a clever
Boson woman that once while she
was living in the country uaboad, in a
spot where the markets were estrene
ly unreliable, she was one day sur
prised by the arrival of several guess
near the dinner hour. It chaned, as
it usually does chance in such cam,
that on that espeal da hr lader
was more than common bre, and
ad had little to e betrel a guest.
Her wit helped her out. however. The
lauss were in full bloom, and sales
mg a number of the lnesa eltem
sei had them dipped In isr as"
them tried in boiling oil
5e dish was not enly an extrweml
emem tal one, tn siape of tihe el
t being a. unlike that grape.-,
a r I was not very sn baantlw
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