Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1917 — KEEPING COW EXPENSIVE NOW [ARTICLE]

KEEPING COW EXPENSIVE NOW

To Feed Her In Oklahoma One Must Spend $1 a Day—And She Doeatrt Always “Deliver." Oklahoma City, Okla.—A cow is an expensive member of the family -in Oklahoma City at this time. She costs more In a month than most families spend for necessities in a week. It figures out about sls'to S2O a month for feed alone, and “Bossle” doesn’t deliver the year around, as a rule. Good prairie hay costs from sl6 to* sl9 a ton. Alfalfa hay costs from S2O to $22 a ton. Bran costs $1.65 per 100 pounds, corn chops bring $2 and cottonseed meal sells for $2.25. Dealers figure that “Bossle,” if fed properly, will consume about 50 to 65 cents* worth of feed a day, besides pasture. A good cow should give in return about three gallons of 40-cent milk and a _pound and a half of 35-cent butter every day. Few do, however, and practically none produce all the year. ———— ; ; ; ’T'-J