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FERGERS  NUJR1TIA  FEEDS 
Are  Your  Cows 
Worth  Taking  Care  of? 
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**  TRADE  MARK  REG.U.S.PAT.  OFF 
September 
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Caustic  Balsam 
untiling;,  awl  just  hoi | >  yourself  to  vege¬ 
tables  and  eggs;  we.  have  plenty.  and  wo 
produce  them  jn  odd  lime  after  the  reg¬ 
ular  day's  work  is  done,  and  T  have  an 
extra  pig  this  Fall;  you  just  take  him 
along.  We  raised  him  on  scraps  and 
weeds  and  a  few  nubbins  of  soft.  corn, 
nnd  he  really  doesn't  stand  me  in  any¬ 
thing.” 
Farmer  Ferguson  has  been  helping  me 
out  like  that,  year  after  year,  and  doing 
it  in  such  a  nice  neighborly  way  that  I 
really  didn't  notice  that  ho  was  getting 
just  a  little  shabby,  like  myself,  until 
this  year.  T  took  a  look  around  the 
other  day.  and  saw  that  Farmer  Fergu¬ 
son’s  buildings  need  painting,  his  fences 
need  fixing,  and  his  farm  would  look  bet¬ 
ter  if  a  lot  of  the  brush  along  those 
fenees  was  cut.  T  suspect  he  hasn't  got 
thi>  money  to  make  these  repairs,  so  I  am 
going  to  try  to  pay  him  one  hundred 
cents  on  the  dollar  this  year.  ITow  can 
I  do  it?  Let  us  see. 
First  place,  I’ve  got  that  interest  to 
pay:  had  to  borrow  .$2,000  to  lmy  those 
20  cows.  Cheap  at  that !  They  aver¬ 
aged  7.500  pounds  of  milk  last.  year,  and 
I  am  sure  they  will  do  as  well  this  year. 
Well,  Farmer  Ferguson  let  me  have  that 
money  for  H^  per  cent.,  so  there  is  $00. 
and  he  charges  me  $00  a  year  for  the  use 
of  that  tine  sanitary  cow  stable  and 
barnyard.  That’s  $7.50  a  month,  and 
cheap  enough.  Then  there  is  labor. 
Well,  I  guess  T'll  lake  Farmer  Ferguson 
up  on  that.  deal,  lie  offers  to  take  care 
of  those  20  cows,  and  17  of  them  will 
he  milkers,  cart  the  feed,  cart  the  milk 
and  keep  the  stable  nice  and  clean  for  $2 
a  day.  That’s  cheap;  lie  must  he  hard 
up,  and  he  offers  to  furnish  a  horse  and 
wagon  to  (‘art  feed,  milk  and  manure  for 
a  dollar  a  day.  Guess  T’ll  take  him  up 
on  tiiat  loo.  And  he  offers  to  give  me  a 
dollar  a  day  if  I  will  let  him  cart  that 
manure  from  20  cows  on  his  farm  :  that 
Sounds  fair  too;  T  think  I  will  do  busi¬ 
ness  with  him.  He's  going  to  let.  me  have 
nty  hay  for  $15  a  ton.  That’s  cheaper 
than  I  can  buy  it  anywhere  else.  Won¬ 
der  how  that  would  figure  up?  Let’s  see, 
there’s  feed.  I  always  feed  every  cow 
in  the  barn  a  little  feed;  dry  cows  get 
about  two  pounds  a  day,  and  my  host 
milkers  get  as  high  ns  15  pounds.  Av¬ 
erages  up  about  ten  pounds  a  day  in  the 
Winter  and  then  T  give  them  about  20 
pounds  of  buy.  That  figures  about  like 
this : 
A  PAY 
Food,  each  :*ow.  10  lbs.  at  1  V£c.  .SO. 15 
Hay  each  cow.  20  lbs.  :it  %o.  . .  .If* 
Labor . 10 
Horse  . 05 
Rent.  . 0114 
Interest  . 0114 
I  he  Community  Hoghouse 
The  recent  bulletin  issued  by  the  Iowa 
Experiment  Station  at  Ames  gives  a  very 
good  study  of  what  is  known  as  the  com¬ 
munity  hoghouse,  A  picture  of  this  house 
is  shown  at  Fig.  50.1,  page  .1250.  This  is 
otherwise  known  as  the  Iowa  sunlit 
house,  and  is  designed  for  those  who  want 
a  convenient,  clean  and  solid  place  for  the 
hogs.  In  this  pamphlet  of  50  pages  is 
given  a  thorough  study  of  the  construc¬ 
tion  of  lliis  house,  and  a  very  full  de¬ 
scription  of  its  conveniences  and  disad¬ 
vantages.  At  this  time  of  the  year  we 
have  many  requests  from  our  readers  for 
the  plans  of  a  practical  hoghouse.  Here 
in  the  Fast  jn  particular  pork-making  is 
increasing  as  a  farm  business,  and  tlie 
old-fashioned  and  undesirable  pigsty  is 
rapidly  going  out  of  date,  The  sanitary 
hOglmnse,  the  pasture  and  the  self-feeder 
arc  all  coming  in  as  a  part  of  improved 
hog  management.  This  bulletin  gives  an 
excellent  study  of  a  sanitary  bughouse, 
and  it  will  he  well  suited  to  our  Eastern 
conditions. 
Quality  is  the  best  advertisement 
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A  Living  Price  for  Milk 
All  hail  to  the  Dairymen’s  League. 
Here  in  Orange  County.  X.  V..  we  shall  he 
organized  almost  solidly  before  Oct.  1st. 
Onr  local  branch  at  Howells  was  organ¬ 
ized  Soph.  2,  and  by  the  fourth  of  the 
month  every  dairyman  except  two.  had 
joined.  One  is  an  out-and-out  reaction¬ 
ary,  the  other  absent  from  home. 
As  the  matter  of  price  is  coining  up 
I  wish  to  submit  my  figures,  based  on  an 
output  of  <1.000  pounds  per  annum  per 
cow.  and  bulterfat  recorded  at.  the  State 
standard  of  three  per  cent.  If  any  dairy¬ 
man  owns  cows  producing  more,  and  a 
higher  per  cent,  of  fat.  it  is  the  result  of 
his  own  business  sagacity  and  he  is  not 
under  obligations  to  the  milk  trust,  or 
any  living  person  for  the  extra  profit. 
Take  our  creamery  here  at  Ilowells;  we 
have  for  the  last  year  been  signing  a 
contract  calling  for  a  premium  above  8.8 
for  test.  Here  is  a  case  where  tlie  busi¬ 
ness  man  put.  one  over  on  tlie  unorgan¬ 
ized  farmer.  In  my  case  the  difference 
between  a  premium  starting  at  2  fiat  and 
one  starting  at  8.8  is  $187.50  for  the 
year,  and  there  is  not  a  farmer  in  Orange 
County  today,  who  would  not.  look  on  a 
sum  of  $187.50  with  approbation.  My 
figures  for  a  20-cow  and  10-cow  dairy 
follows,  niy  estimate  of  what  a  farmer 
should  have  for  his  milk  based  on  these 
figures;  a  flat  Tate  of  $2.22  per  100  lbs. 
is  equal  to  4 V.  cents  per  quart 
Apr..  May.  .Tune,  per  100  lbs . $1.86 
July,  Aug.,  Sept.,  per  100  lbs......  2.11 
Oct.,  Nov.,  Dec.,  per  100  lbs .  2.50 
Jan.,  Feb.,  March,  per  100  lbs .  2.85 
This  is  equivalent  to  $2.22  per  100  lhs. 
straight  through  the  year.  On  a  20-cow 
dairy  it  would  work  out  like  this; 
For  Oow».  Hor*e«,  Hog.  and  Cblck.n.  »ro  .cl.n- 
tlfio  combination.  of  palatable  nuirtiiou.  and 
easily  dlgi-.iible  grain*  whloh  together  make  per¬ 
fect  balano-d  ration.,  .Small  ««mplr  bag.  freo. 
Write  for  price,  on  intteil  carload  lote  of  reed. 
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I  for  ordinary  r  ases, 
f  Fast,  aid  on  receipt  at  price 
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IT  PAYS!  “Efficiency”  on  the  dairy 
farm  spells  “Equipment”  and  the  belter 
your  equipment,  the  biggel  n  if- 
your  profits.  Clean,  com- 
,  ___  , _  Clean,  com- 
fortably  housed  and  stalled 
cows  prove  money  makers. 
Treat  your  Cows  to  \V  w 
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$0.42% 
Well,  my  cows  average  just  10  quarts 
u  day.  bo  that  makes  it  just  1  t/£c.  Sure 
I  didn't  forgot  depreciation.  I  always 
figure  my  calves  about  Cover  that,  and 
I  generally  come  about  clear  on  bulls 
too,  but  of  course  I  have  some  losses.  I 
suppose  they  will  have  to  eome  out  of 
my  profit.  What!  Hadn’t  a  right  to 
ask  any  profit  because  I  don’t  do  any¬ 
thing  myself?  Why,  my  friend,  the 
druggist,  has  never  mixed  an  ieed  drink 
but  ho  looks  for  a  profit  from  that  foun¬ 
tain.  I  know  my  trade.  Farmer  Fer¬ 
guson  couldn't  run  that  dairy  without  me 
around.  Ever  see  a  boss  carpenter  do 
much  sawing?  No,  he  hasn’t  got  time. 
Sure  I  have  to  have  a  profit.  Just  give 
me  4%  for  the  six  months  and  I'll  take 
the  bad  luck  as  it  comes  and  try  to  pay 
Farmer  Ferguson  for  his  hay.  labor  and 
horse,  and  keep  up  on  my  rent  and  in¬ 
terest  and  keep  the  feed  bill  down.  How 
about  next  Summer?  Well,  I’ve  got  all 
Winter  to  figure  that.  We  only  contract 
for  six  months,  dairyman  feiwfsox. 
120,000  lhs.  in  ilk  at  $2.22 
CR. 
10  lbs.  feed  daily  per 
cow  ($80  ton  I . . . .  $l,0f 
Salary  of  owner  and 
family  .  1,2( 
lilt,  on  investment. 
$5,000  at  5% .  2f 
Taxes  and  insurance  11 
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THE  GREAT 
$2,065.00  $2,004.00 
On  a  10-cow  dairy: 
0.000  lbs.  milk  at  $2.22 . $1,882.00 
Feed  .  $547.50 
I  nt.  on  $8,000  at  5%  150.00 
Taxes  and  insurance.  100.00 
Salary  .  500.00 
$1,297.50  $1,882.00 
Orange  Co.,  N.  Y.  geo.  e.  iiowell. 
Is  To  Be  Held  This  Year 
October  12  to  21  Inclusive 
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Reduced  Railroad  Rates  From  Everywhere 
Dairyman  Ferguson  and  His  Farmer  Friend 
I  have  boon  reading  some  very  funny 
figures  in  your  paper  about  the  cost  of 
producing  a  quart  of  milk.  If  you  ask 
a  druggist  how  much  profit  lie  is  mak¬ 
ing  on  his  soda  fountain  I  bet  he  won’t 
begin  to  figure  on  the  cost  of  quinine 
pills.  I  am  Dairyman  Ferguson,  and  I  As  the  stage  coach  careened  toward 
have  a  very  good  friend  in  Farmer  For-  the  edge  of  tlie  cliff,  tlie  timid  tourist 
guson.  In  fact  I  think  he  has  been  the  gazed  anxiously  down  at  tho  brawling 
best  friend  I  ever  bad,  because  whenever  stream  three  hundred  feet  below.  “Do 
I  failed  to  get  quite  as  much  for  my  people  fall  over  this  precipice  often?” 
milk  as  it  cost  me  to  produce  it  he  said  she  asked.  The  driver  clucked  to  his 
to  me,  “Oh!  never  mind  that.  I’ll  sell  broncos.  “No,  madam,”  he  returned 
you  your  hay  cheaper  this  year  and  you  placidly;  “never  but  once.” — The  Chris- 
enn  have  that  pasture  over  there  for  tian  Herald. 
Makes  easy  hauling  on  any  grade 
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