Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1914 — useful Dairy Notes. [ARTICLE]

useful Dairy Notes.

If you haul your milk to the creamery invest $5 in a cover for your wagon. It will save its cost in a week. Dont forget to salt the cows. They need it now as much as tn the winter time. The big, raw-boned crib-like dairy cow is going out of style and the smaller, well-formed animal is asserting her superiority. Oliver Gridley, an lowa dairyman, uses a gasoline engine, a milking machine and lights the barn with electricity. He began with a few cows. A Wisconsin man fed one of his cows S6O worth of feed last year, and her pasture, feeding, milking and stabling cost $11.50 more, making her total cost $71.50, but she produced S9O worth of butter, $17.70 worth of manure, $1 worth of skim milk and a calf worth $5, making her total income sll4. Salting cows regularly has much to do with the ease or difficulty with ‘ which the butter will come. Let them have access to salt at all times.