People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — Guess Work. [ARTICLE]

Guess Work.

There is no need of guessing at the profit or loss in the dairy business. Get a memorandum iropk and carry it in your pocket.

Alien you sell a calf, book it; A'hen you get a check for the nonth, book it. So everything dial is bought and sold should jc booked. At the end of the fear balance up, then in will be 10 guess work. We would like <> have a report of all the patrons next January, and now is die time to begin keeping accounts. Some people think it is 1 good deal of trouble to do that. '.Veil it is some trouble, but after fen try it a while it will prove a pleasure, besides you can answer the question so often asked, "Does it pay to dairy, Dairying vs. Politics.—ls die good people would give as r.ucli time and attention to the uuilding up of a dairy industry in our community as they do political parties we would soon have the best dairy district in the state. Of course it is all right to attend to your political duties in the right way, but it is strange how. much time and money we spend in political work and get nothing for it. Better get down to business and give it the best part of your time and money, then you will be better qualified to vote. Salting. —Salt the cows regularly three times a week, or what is better, keep it where they can get it whenever they please. It is important for them to have it, for several reasons. It will increase the flow of milk, and make the cream churn quicker, and make better buttes.

Sit,os. —We are informed that Bro. F. W. Bedford contemplates building a silo the coming summer. We would like to have him toll us. through the dairy column, something about the plan, size, material to be used, shape, round or square, what lie is going to till it with, etc. Relative cost of butter and beef. —Tlii§ is a subject that we would like to have discussed thoroughly as it has a direct bearing on the dairy industry [of Jasper county. Does .1 cost more to produce a pound of butter than a pound of beef?