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COST OF A TWO-YEAR-OLD HEII RR. 
Estimate for Columbia County, N. Y. 
Referring to the cost of raising a calf 
up to two years old, as given on page 
7G4 from the figures of the Connecticut 
Experiment Station, I would say that 
while in the main my method of feeding 
is substantially the same, I think the fig¬ 
ures there given are much too high. I 
can scarce figure from the data given just 
the prices charged for feed, but as the 
amounts fed arc substantially the same 
as I use, the prices charged are a good 
bit more. I have charged all feeds at 
wholesale prices, or what they were ab¬ 
solutely worth on the farm. It must be 
realized that with such feed as skitn- 
miIk, silage and clover hay, the heifer 
creates a market for things which have, 
except the clover hay, no market value. 
Again, I consider the manure made will 
more than pay for all labor expended. I 
make no charge for bedding grown on 
the farm. To work this up into manure, 
I am glad to use the calf or heifer as a 
medium. “Barn rent, insurance and 
taxes,” like death, arc certain any way, 
and would have to be paid whether one 
raised calves or not. The rate of $4, 
too, seems a very heavy portion for one 
calf to bear. Were I to charge to the 
calf “tlie portion that falleth to it,” on 
an ordinary set of farm buildings I could 
by no possible stretch of the imagina¬ 
tion get it so high. It rather looks to 
me as if they set out to make a high 
cost, and so scraped together every item 
possible to think of. Surely the figures 
as 1 give them below are high enough, 
and it must be apparent that only a lirst- 
class calf will pay to raise. One with 
no productive ancestry back of it, and 
from its make-up and lack of breeding, 
no productive future before it, would 
better be knocked in the head at birth, 
if there is no other way to dispose of it, 
rather than to rear it at a cost which 
it will not repay as a cow, and a value 
which no one will buy it for. I figure 
the cost of raising a calf up to two years 
of age as follows: 
Tour quarts of whole milk dally for 
two weeks, HI! quarts at ‘i 1 /.i cents 
approximately . $2.00 
Right quarts of sklm-mllk dally for 
six months at Vj cent. 4.00 
Pasture, six months. 4.00 
One-half ton of hay. It.00 
One-half ton of silage. 2.00 
One pound of grain dally for 200 days 
at $1.00 per cwt. 3.00 
Total for tlrst year.$20.00 
8ECONO YEAR. 
Pasture . .. $0.00 
One ton of hay. 10.00 
Two pounds of grain for 200 days... 0.00 
One ton of silage. . . 4.00 
Total for second year.$20.00 
Total for two years.$40.00 
The price put on milk is just what it 
cost me to make it (five per cent fat). Of 
course I get more, and that fed to the 
calf is then fed at a loss. Most people 
do not get over* V/ 2 cents. While the 
intrinsic value of skim-milk is more than 
one-quarter cent a quart, that is the 
price I allow the patrons of our cream¬ 
ery for retaining theirs, and were I to 
take out more, a shipping station would 
get their milk. Take one year with an¬ 
other, $10 is a good price for clover hay, 
right on the farm. It is doubtful if the 
yearling will cat a ton of silage. The 
price is based on the value of hay, and is 
more likely to be under $4. The grain 
will not average a cost of V/z cent a 
pound. While it is true I cannot afford 
to pasture a heifer the second year on 
my tillable land for $0, that is just what 
I have paid to have them pastured, and 
were I willing to drive them some 20 
miles I could get them well pastured 
for less. With the exception of the 
milk, then, I have figured everything at 
the top notch or beyond, which will bal¬ 
ance up any inequality in my own milk 
price. After all I could throw in the 
$4 rent, etc., and have my two-year-old 
heifer stand me $30. If she is the right 
kind of one, she will be worth that as 
producer, and better than that amount 
of money would buy, nine times in 10, 
in a mature cow. I am very sure that 
the majority of calves and heifers raised 
by the farmers do not get anywhere 
near the amount of good feed here cited; 
which is one reason why so many calves 
raised are a disappointment after they 
become cows. Each year makes more 
emphatic to me the fact that to make a 
good cow a heifer must be fed from her 
birth enough of the most nutritious food 
to fully develop her frame as well as 
the calf she is carrying for nine months 
of that time, to develop which will re¬ 
quire as much food as would the pro¬ 
duction of 1,000 pounds of milk. 
EDWARD VAN AbSTVNE. 
As They Do It in Texas. 
Conditions here arc so different that 
a comparison will be interesting. We 
figure that for labor and milk the first 
six months of the heifer’s life would 
cost just about $15. From that time, 
here, they usually pick up a living in 
the pasture. The usual pasture rate for 
heifers is 25 cents per month. That is 
$4.50 for IS months, or $19.50 for the 
two years. That is for years when there 
is sufficient rainfall to give us good 
grass. In the droughts we have to feed 
more or less, or do as some men do, let 
the heifers starve, and lose a large pro¬ 
portion of them. A common practice is 
to let them run in the cotton and corn 
fields in Summer and Fall, after the 
crops arc harvested. Now, this pastur¬ 
age is hard to figure on. On our farm, 
with land valued at $35 per acre, I ex¬ 
pect pasturage costs us about $15 per 
heifer per year. That is an estimate that 
would vary with the seasons of course, 
but is somewhere near the cost. If we 
use that figure our heifer at two years 
costs $37.50. On our farm we intend to 
have troughs of prickly pear, run through 
the silage cutter, and let the calves and 
heifers pick at it whenever they feel so 
inclined. That would add slightly to 
cost, but results would justify the 
trouble. For our figures we will cut 
out the labor, $10, and the bedding, $2, 
also the barn and rent. We do not in¬ 
sure. Our figures arc so variable and 
inaccurate that I do not figure interest 
and taxes. To sum up in a nutshell, de¬ 
pending on rainfall and grass, according 
to season, a two-year-old heifer will cost 
us from $20 to $40. wm. SINCLAIR. 
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