Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1913 — FORE RANK FARMER OPPOSES CALF SAVING [ARTICLE]

FORE RANK FARMER OPPOSES CALF SAVING

Says That Dairy Cattle Product Will Cost More to Two Years Than Their Valne. Chesterton Tribune. J. E. Bowell, for years one of the men in Laporte county wbo has been always in the front In all things which make for progressive agriculture, does not believe that the scheme which has been proposed to pass a law to prevent the killing of calves until they are at least two years of age Will help in lowering the price of meat. Mr. Bowell says that the advocates of this law do not realize what the practical farmer is up against. He said that the cost of keeping Jerseys and other calves of the small cattle breed would be more than the increased price would be when they get older. He said it would mean that the smaller variety would eat up more than they are worth. It is necessary, however, he explained, to 'have this class of cattle, as they are usually the class that produce the; most milk: —However; Mr. Bowell does not believe that the keeping of calves except for mileh cows or breeding purposes would be profitable. He thinks it might be profitable when it comes-to the larger cattle, but these,-he says, do not give the milk that some of the other breeds produce and as a rule the calves are kept anyway, either by the man that owns them, or by some big stockbuyers who purchase them when small. Mr. Bowell thinks that the principal way to solve the high price of meat problem ,is to teach the termers that it is profitable to raise cattle.