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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 7 
Live StockandDairy 
THE COST OF POORiSTOCK. 
Why is it that so many farmers keep 
wasting good feed by giving it to poor 
stock? As I look at the matter here in 
central New York, unless one happens 
to live so far away from market that he 
cannot get his milk to the station, every 
scrub calf that is raised costs much more 
than she will sell for. 1 lately had an 
argument with an old friend of mine in 
regard to this cattle-breeding business. 
Ho keeps quite a. large herd of grade 
Holsteins, having used a registered sire 
a number of years. His plan is to raise 
several well-marked heifers each year, 
and sell a corresponding number of cows 
at about $50 each, giving the buyer the 
pick of the herd. He was showing me 
a nice string of heifer calves, and point¬ 
ing out their fine qualities, when I asked 
him why he raised them. 
“Why,” he said, “I sell a number of 
cows every year for $50 each.” 
“Yes, but wouldn’t those cows give 
milk enough in a year to buy two of your 
two-year-old heifers?” 
“Oh well, somebody’s got to raise 
calves, or there wouldn’t be any cows.” 
“Let us see what it costs to raise one 
of these calves.” So I got out my pencil 
and we began: 
Value of calf at birth. ?2.00 
300 pounds new milk for first three 
weeks . 3.00 
20 pounds skira-milk daily for four 
months, at 16 cents. 3.60 
2 pounds bran daily for nine months, 
at $1 per cwt. 6.40 
Half ton of hay. 6.00 
Total .$19.00 
This makes our March calf cost $19 at 
14 months old when ready for pasture. 
At this time such yearlings can be 
bought at from $12 to $15. But we will 
pasture her for the season for $3, then 
winter her on 1% ton hay, $15, 500 
pounds bran, $5; total, $23. Or a total 
cost when she drops her first calf of $42, 
and they can be bought singly or by the 
carload at from $30 to $35 each. 
“But I won’t sell them; I will keep 
them until they will bring $50. They 
will pay for their keeping.” 
“Yes, but you are only able to sell the 
best, and must keep the poorest at a loss, 
and they are the ones you breed from, so 
it looks to me as if you were breeding 
downwards.” 
well matched and good ones quite a lit¬ 
tle more. When one pair of steers Is 
sold a younger pair immediately takes 
their place, and so it goes on. Com¬ 
pared with horses to do farm work here 
the advantage is greatly in favor of the 
oxen, because gears and feed cost much 
less, and the liability to injury by acci¬ 
dent is a great deal less, and if by very 
rare chance one is injured the loss is by 
no means entire. As to the number of 
cattle in this vicinity, I think it is safe 
to say that in a few hours’ drive one 
could find 500 pairs, not all good ones, 
but fairly good steers. Indeed on some 
farms the steer crop is the main money 
crop, buyers coming from afar. I have 
found it almost impossible to keep a 
nice pair long; some one will have them. 
The pair of twins which The R. N.-Y. 
pictured last year, were the best ones 
that I ever raised or saw, and I thought 
I would try to keep them. A buyer 
came along and to make sure I asked 
him $200 for them. He took them, how¬ 
ever, and expressed himself quite satis¬ 
fied. They were then a little less than 
two years old. j. e. h. 
Lyme, Conn. 
CENTRAL N. Y. MILK NOTES. 
A Bridgewater man received In Novem¬ 
ber $222 from 18 cows. The same town re¬ 
ported milk at station $1.55; at Phoenix, 
$1.52; Mutual, $1.76. 
Pabius Creamery Co. paid Its patrons 
$8,800 for November milk. 
Canastota men deliver baled hay for $8 
per ton; other places report it at $10 and 
$11 per ton. 
A North Pitcher dairy sold at an average 
of $25 per head some weeks ago; last week 
at an auction cows went from $25 to $47 per 
head. Farmers want cows, but seem to 
fear their hay will give out. Hay does 
not spend as well as some Winters. 
A young Brookfield man bought a farm 
of 100 acres for $2,000, for which 20 years 
ago a man paid $5,000 and then put on new 
buildings. 
January 22 a farm on the Unadilla River 
sold at auction to settle an estate for $6,050; 
it contained 239 acres, buildings not in first- 
class order. 
We hear of one or two young farmers 
who are taking short terms at Cornell. 
More should improve the chance. 
The milk station at Leonardsvllle ships 
about 100 cans of milk; price $1.55. Several 
farmers send milk to the condensary at 
New Berlin, others to the Phoenix at South 
Edmeston. 
The Phoenix Is building a plant at Una¬ 
dilla Porks, or rather the farmers put up 
the buildings, the Phoenix to operate It for 
five years. The flow of milk is, about an 
average for the season, feed high, corn 
crop so poor; silage is not as good as usual. 
Young stock is quite plentiful here. 
Leonardsvllle, N, Y. k. s. b. 
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“Oh, I always keep a registered bull. 
He ought to keep up the excellence of 
the herd.” 
“Well, Uncle, if you have so much con¬ 
fidence in pure-bred cattle that you can 
depend on a registered bull to raise good 
cows from poor mothers, then why in 
the name of common sense don’t you 
raise pure-bred cattle altogether, that 
would sell at any time for more than 
they cost to raise?” 
If any reader of The R. N.-Y. can an¬ 
swer this question for our friend please 
give him the chance. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
Devon Steers as a Money Crop. 
Here in Lyme, where almost every 
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to twenty yoke of oxen and steers, it 
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about steers. However, strangers com¬ 
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strings they sometimes see. Commenc¬ 
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