FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII. 565 



The creamery man is now conyinced why it does not pay Farmer 

 A to milk cows, and also knows the reason why his milk contains more 

 m.ud than butterfat. In the fall of the year Farmer A finds his cows 

 did not make him much money, and therefore has no mercy with them 

 in the winter. The next season this very pasture has an abundance 

 of grass. Farmer A had to bore a well and put up a windmill, and to 

 his great surprise his cows did not give very much milk this seasou. 

 He did not stop to think that it took nearly all summer for his cov/s 

 to gain what they had lost last year, but is now convinced it does not 

 pay to milk cows. While Farmer B is certain that his cows are making 

 him good money, it is also much easier for the creamery man to get 

 the desired information from him in regard to this. On his way home 

 from Farmer A, he finds Farmer B cultivating corn. Both stop and 

 have a little talk. Of course they talki about the (cows, and farming in 

 general, and Farmer B tells his good friend butter-maker, as he calls 

 him. about the following: He first looks at his watch, and says it is 

 5 o'clock; I have just one hour yet, and I will tell you all about my 

 little farm and the cows. I only have eighty acres. Over there (point- 

 ing toward the pasture) you see the cows; I have fourteen. The pasture 

 is about twenty-eight acres. Joining the pasture on either end is about 

 fifteen acres of meadow; always put on lots of good manure. 



I have about twenty-five acres in corn, nearly all new ground, you 

 see. and the oldest plow land — about ten acres — is in oats. Have seeded 

 it this spring. Will break up a part of the pasture this fall. I always 

 have good land for corn this way, and it does not take as many acres 

 to fill my cribs as it does for my neighbor. Near the house I have a 

 couple of acres for truck and garden stuff. 



When fall comes I cut up about ten acres of my corn and the cows 

 have plnty to eat in winter. Of course I have a nice warm place for 

 them, also. I tell you, Mr. Butter-maker, I think just as much about my 

 cows as I do about the rest of my family. My girls does the milking, 

 but I do the feeding in the winter myself; cows and pigs, horses and 

 chickens and everything. I tell you it pays to feed them good and to fix 

 up good warm places for all of them. But I think, Mr. Butter-maker, 

 you would like to know how much money we can make on our farm in 

 one year. For the last eight or nine years, I find that each one of my 

 cows has netted me at the creamery thirty dollars. In the fall my calves 

 bring from eighty to one hundred dollars. I most generally keep about 

 three or four of the heifer calves and always have young cows. This 

 puts me in shape to sell off the older ones, so I can figure on selling 

 one hundred and sixty dollars worth of cattle each year. 



My pigs get fat in a hurry, for I feed them lots of good swill and 

 grind their corn, mixed with a little oats. They mostly bring about 

 two hundred and fifty dollars. Have not told you how much money the 

 chickens bring each year. It is hard to tell exactly, but I am sure we 

 sell over two hundred dollars worth of eggs each year, say nothing about 

 the old chickens and the roosters we sell every fall. 



