Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — Guess Work. [ARTICLE]

Guess Work.

There is no need, of guessing at the profit or loss in the dairy business. Get /L memorandum book and darry'it in your pocket. "When you s6ll a calf, book it; when you/get a check for the month, ybok it. So everything that'is bought and sold should be booked. At the end of the year balance up, then in will be no guess work. We would like to have a report Of all the patrons. next January, and now is the time to begin keeping accounts. Some people think it is a good deal of trouble to do that. Well it is some trouble, but after you tfy it a while it will prove a pleasure, besides you can answer th cr question so often asked, “Does it pay to dairy.

\Vii;U Ihcdtcturalliikivi Worth. Messrs. McCashion and Wasson have been experimenting on the worth of their return milk, and find by actual weights of milk, they have over 60 cents per hundred. Mr. Martindale says his return milk makes about as much as the milk he delivers at the creamery. Of course hogs have been a good price, rather more that an average. Yet there is no time when there cannot be more realized than is generally supposed. Farmers understand that milk is the best food that can be given to young hogs, that it keeps them in good health and a thrifty condition, also that there is no industry at the present time in Jasper county that will pay them as much for their labor and capital invested as-selling milk.