Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — Value of Dairy Cow. [ARTICLE]

Value of Dairy Cow.

R. M. Washburn, in the Lippincott Farm Manual, “Productive Dairying,"’ predicts that in a short time the United States will be largely devoted to dairy products, instead of beef production. For he tells us the food value produced by May Rilma, the Guernsey cow, equaled in one year that of 30 steers weighing 500 pounds apiece. It would take, he assures us, eight acres of good wheat land to produce an equal food value to the year’s production of Duchess Skylark .Ormsby, and this is coming to be typical of the value of the dairy cow. Now the cow does by working over hay, corn, ensilage, and various rough or by-product grains.