Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1877 — The Cow is Queen. [ARTICLE]

The Cow is Queen.

“ Brindle in the family has for long years nearly supported the family, and added largely to the table comforts of rich and poor. But she has been considered as occupying a small place in the wealth or commerce of the world; but she is becoming an important factor in the business and financial prosperity of any country. The produce of her udder is of more money value than any other crop, except corn, in its raw state, in this country. There was in 1875 in the United States 10,000,000 cows. Estimating them at $45 per head, they are worth 9456,000/000. In the same year, we learn from actual statistics and reasonable estimates,

that them were manufactured 208,657,$74 pounds of cheese, (135,101,210 pounds of butter. 325,500,000 gallon* of milk sold, and 1,802,902,396 gallons consumed ip families, elc. The cheese at twelve cents per pound would be $24,440,320; the butter at twenty two cents would be $187,542,068; the milk at eight centaper gallon would be $180,200,230 ; 9,000,OOOcalves at $3 per head would be $27,000,000; total, $310,182,623. TO IS is the annual product from the cow. * The cotton crop for 1875 was worth sltout $200,000,000. The total crop ol corn for tyat year waa 1,821,060,000 bushels, which at forty cents per bushel (a liberal average) would be worth $528,427,600. The wheat crop waa 202,186,000, which at SI.OO per bushel would be $292,136,000; and there are no other items of produce coming in competion with these four items—milk, wheat, com and cotton. So that com stands the unrivaled king, yet the cow may be cdtisidered the worthy queen, and so far as the real comforts and necessaries of life are concerned, we wonld sooner give up the corn crop than the cow. —lowa State Begieter.