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» I FOR THE FARMING, STOCK RAISING, DAIRYING, POULTRY AND OTHER INTERESTS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES VQl. 8- NO. 4.___ STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, DECEMBER 15, 1902. 50 CENTS A YEAR. A Canadian Comment on the Ononda ga, N. Y. Patron Investigation. I am exceedingly interested in the~“Creamery Patrons Investi gation in Onondaga Co., N. Y.” I am not milkiug cows, bnt have been reading the Dairyman with reference to a dairy business, but the showing from Onondaga county is not pat ticularly en couraging, It would add to the interest of these investigations if your correspondent would give the length of time the cows were milked to give the various re turns. I am particularly inter ested in this investigation, be cause I have some sixty or seven ty grade Shorthorn heifers that I purchased with care in Onta rio, selecting from the best milk ing stock of that breed I could find, with the view to raising the calves by.hand on seperator milk and making butter, but I am not sufficiently enthused to work tor nothing and board myself, and it has occurred to me that possibly I have mistaken my calling. Butter brings a good price here, quite as good as in Onondaga Co. but help is higher. Small grain sells usually from a dollar to a dollar and a quarter a hundred, whether it is wheat, barley or oats, and bran and shorts usually at about $25 per ton. Calves dropped in the spring from such stock, in fact, as a rule, from any x of the stock in this country sell at weaning time—about the first of November—for $15 to $20 per head where they are allowed to run with the cow, and a corres ponding price according to quali ty and condition where raised by hand. I beg pardon for stringing this out so long. I only started to ask your correspondent to give us the length of the season tnat the cows give milk, to give the returns he quotes. C. H. Walker. Macleod, Alberta, Canada. The time covered by Mr. Jen kins patrons investigations is one year, the entire mi.king seu ** son of the cow. We do not won der at our friend’s hesitation about going into the da'ry busi ness, when he looks over these records. But if he will turn to Mr. Jenkins’ table on page 832 he will Hn well tn nfndv thp rptimw of Nos. 9, 30, 31, 34 and 37. He will see that they obtained for every dollar they expended in feed, over two dollars in butter at the creamery. If he will turn to page 592, he will note what Mr. Jenkins says about this patrcn. The cost to keep was S21. Ilis ration for the winter months was mainly an excellent quality of sweet corn stover. His cows produced 5-224 pounds of milk which made 203 ponnds of butter He reads agricultural papers. It is evident that his cows were not suffering because of his ignorance of cow management. He had good cows to start with, another evidence that he bad cow sense. No. 30, page 707, received $2.04 for every dollar his cows cost ib feed. The cost of keep ing was $25- per year; ration, alfalfa hay, corn stover, and 4 poun Is of corn meal and bran a day for three months in the spring. His cows produced 5, 257 pounds of milk per cow. No. 31, page 730, received $2.03 for % every dollar his cow* cost in feed. His ratiou was alfalfa hay, corn stover, wheat bran, and oats. Cost of annuel keep, $27.40 His cows produced 5,599 pounds of milk or 255 pounds of butter per cow. He reads agricultural paper. No. 54 same page, has 10 cows; cost of keeping, $51. Nation, aifalfa hay, corn stover, four pounds of bran and corn meal during winter months. His cows produced 0,792 pounds of milk, making 281 pounds of butter. He received $2.19 for every dollar his cows cost in feed. He reads agricultural paper?. No. 57. same page, his cows cost in keep, $27. They produced 5,709 pounds of milk, making 250 pounds of butter. Ilis ration also was alfalfa hav, corn stover and no grain except the ears of corn on the stover, (we reckon it was pretty good stover). His cows produced $2.10 for every dollar they cost in feed. Now, here weve five men in 80, who received over one hundred per cent, in return for every cellar they invested for ieeu. xnreeoimem ieea aiiai fa hay. Every other man of the HO had the same chance to make an intelligent profit-making dairy farmer of himself. Yet there were 2.? of them who received less than a dollar for every dol lar they invested in feed. The canclusion irresistably is that this tremendous difference between profit and loss is due to the hard work, the thought, the brain of the live, and a lack of it in the twenty-three. There is no other way of satisfactorily ex plaining it.—Hoards Dairyman. For a year or two past Hoards Dairyman and others interested in dairying have sent representa tives into the dairy sections of the North and found out what it cost the various dairy farmers to feed their cows a year, wheth er the feed was home grown or purchased. Then the returns from the creamery showed ex actly how much money the cows brought in. In a majority of cases, perhaps, the dairymen have not gotten money enough to __ x i_r_i i i _ iuv. iv.vu uhi?( aii uiajui 11y of cases these men that are not making ends meet said they* read no agricultural paper and did not need any. How have these men lived, since they are paying out more than they get? Simply by grow ing the feed on the farm with underpaid and underfed and poorly clothed labor, consisting of their own families. They grow the feed thus and sell it to poor cows at less than market price. We will venture that a ma jority of cotton farmers are not getting full wages for the labor used in the production and hand ling of cotton after taking out other expenses. This can be demonstrated to be a fact with all cotton farmers who produce only * 3 bale per acre or less'. A few cotton farmers, like the five / dairy farmers mentioned, by growing a bale per acre, easily make 100 per cent, profit on all the labor and other expenses in volved in its production. Only good crops, as well as good cows well handled, can possibly pay. An Instructive Article. Brooks, Coleman County, Tex. After a twelve months’ wait I thought I would put in a few lines from this: part of the world. I moved here about fourteen months ago, bought laud, paid Si L.50 per acre for 220 acres, sold out two months ago for S15 per acre. I only make this statement to show how rapidly land is ad vancing in this county. Crops were very short this year, tann ers at e nearly all through gath ering their cotton, though they are five times better off for feed another year than they weie this time last year. The dwarf milo maize is the coming crop for .a_». f— .1 r_ it.. _i .. i 0 ivv. tv 1VV.U 1U1 UliS LUUUllsV a Li U corn will be a thing of the past. 1 will give some of my experi ence on milo maize this year: I bought one gallon of seed, plant ed one and a half acres with my sorghum planter, cut the first crop the 1st of July—just cut the tops off, got about fifty bushels, thrashed out seven bushels, sold $11 worth, planted seven acres more out of what was left, gath ered a good crop from that, the one and a half acres suckered out at once, and in the last of August I cut it with my row binder, got about twelve big ioads, then it put out from the stub and the 1st of October it was all headed out again, about three or four feet high The middle of No vember I cut it again with my binder like cutting oats or wheat, and that was the btst of all. It will fatten a horse or hog, or cow as quick as anything I ever fed to stock. Some claim that it won’t fatten hogs, but that is a grand mistake- I fattened my meat bogs on it this fall, and I never killed fatter meat. I killed four head just one year old, and made ‘>00 pounds of fine pork. Jon W. Tayi.ok. Selecting the Pullets. As your young stock grows, select from all the broods the very finest, strongest and most vigorous pullets to keep for winter layers Size, strength and vigor have so much to do with egg production that one should study this continually in the Hock and train the eye to see the best egg producers while yet undeveloped. Save all such for your own use; never part with them unless you have more than you need. After they are selec ted keep them well under your eye and select from all these the very best egg producers to lay the eggs from which you will grow your future stock, and gradually in this way you will gain in egg production. The best hens are the ones that lay the largest number of eggs that are of fair size, good form and nicely finished. Such eggs sell the best, usually produce the best and have the best value in the market.—Feathers. I ' ' Truck I _ ^ i ii Farm = 160 acres level land three miles trom the growing manufacturing city of Laurel; the best market for truck and dairy products of Mississippi. Land will make a bale of cotton per acre with some fertilizer. Will sell this well-improved place for $2500. L. F EASLY, Laurel, Miss Wincy Farm Berkshire. iM,,i.•«£ On hand now a few litters as fine as I have ever bred, ready for prompt shipment. These pigs have typical heads, backs and hams and have excellent bone, with unusual finish. Buyer should order before weather gete too warm to ship. Barred Plymouthl?ocks at a bargain. Address, S Q. HOLLINGSWORTH, - Coushatta, La COW PEAS. Whippoorwill Peas...$1 50 bu. Clays and Wonderful*. I jo j3lli Mixed and Unknown. 1 qq j,u’ Tcnn. German Millet Seed.$1 50 bu. Dwarf Essex Rape .be It. [ binder Twine. 12c lb. Red Top & Orange cane seed $1^40 bu. eWTAll in cotton bags 15c extra each, and terms NET CASH. C. Ra BAIRD & GO., - Chattanooga, Term For $aie--A Bargain. 240 acre Delta farm. 18 miles south of Greenville, Miss., and 3 miles west'of Wilmot Station where we have both Y. & M. V. and Southern R. R\s. Convenient enough to the railroad can leave the place in the morning and go to Greenville aud attend to business and get back that evening or vou can go in the evening and get back neat morning. There is two first class steam gins at Wilmot also Post Office. There is 123 acres in fine state of cultiva tion which will make a bale of cotton per acre this year. 6 good Houses, 3 pumps, good water, barns and sheds, full supply of farm implements, 1 four horse wagon and gears, blacksmith outfit. 0 eead fine yonng mules one 8 year oici nurse, idrurc ana wont anywhere. Everyth inj*; complete fur one who wants this size farm. I will >tate that this land is a < fine as any in the Delta and lies beautifully rnd is cheap at $50 an acre. I am engaged in other business and find I cannot'give tho proper attention this property, so am willing to make a sacrifice of it. 1 will close it out for $7500.00 'the entire outfit, one third cash and the balance in payments to sut purchaser. This I consider the best bargain in the Delta and the right man can make the deferred pay ments like paying rent. BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Jerseys For Sale. BY Mississippi Experiment Station. To reduce the Station herd, we are offering for saleseveral choice young registerek cows and heifers. Also five well bred young bulls. Most of the above cows aie with calf Prospects Polo; dam massey Polo, sire, Stake Pogis of Prospec. Full particulars sent on application. J. S, Moore, Agricultural College, Miss