Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 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 in 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 ber 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.