The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 2G, 1919 
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Any Cow 
worth keeping is 
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Profitable cows can’t produce up to 
the limit of their capacity on grass, 
because grass is practically never bal¬ 
anced. A cow can’t eat enough grass 
to get sufficient protein. 
Purina Cow Chow 
supplies the lacking elements, and enables 
the feeder to perfectly balance the grass 
ration, no matter how irregular the pasture 
conditions. This is done with ingredients 
that any expert will approve and practical 
dairymen know to be right. 
Dairymen in all parts of the country have demon* 
strated time and again that 
2 lbs. Purina Cow Chow 
make the average cow on pasture, produce at least 
6 lbs. more milk per day 
at an additional cost of about 6c per cow per day. 
Figure out what this would mean to you each 
month. Most dealers keep Purina Cow Chow. If 
yours doesn’t, write us. 
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North Star Anti-Septic Wool Fat Compound 
keeps teats and udders smooth and pliable. Cows 
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That Cost of Producing Milk 
I am hypnotized by Mr. Boodv’.s figures 
as to the cost of producing milk, on page 
830. When I attempt to analyze this 
accurate cost, many items are dispropor¬ 
tionate to the usual rule in this dairy sec¬ 
tion. What strikes me most forcibly, 
however, is Mr. Boody’s recognition that 
the insurable hazards, fire and lightning, 
are a proper item of costs, but lie abso¬ 
lutely refuses to consider by so much as 
a tentative estimate the uninsurable haz¬ 
ards of the dairy business. 
Let us suppose Mr. Boody had experi¬ 
enced a late June freeze, followed by a 
three-weeks’ dry spell. Ilis 50 acres 
might have produced sufficient for 20 per 
cent of his herd, or less. Take the other 
hazards of weather on crops he seems to 
have produced himself—hay, beets, corn. 
Does he consider that the market price 
always includes this hazard, or that it 
just happened to do so this year, or per¬ 
chance, did he get ample insurance to 
cover this as well as .$27,000 of farm 
property for $40 a year? 
Then, how about cow breeding? Did 
lie have the usual 10 per cent abortive or 
farrow? Did four or five cows have three 
or four weeks when they failed to keep the 
usual production rate, due to indigestion 
or other indisposition? Did one cow at¬ 
tack another in the pasture, causing in¬ 
juries affecting milk production? 
Then liow about the horses required 
and the uninsurable hazards they carry? 
I do not know why it is that these haz¬ 
ards, as a rule, are ignored in figuring 
milk cost. They are not insurable, of 
course. Those best informed would not 
dare even to guess at an adequate or fail- 
rate at which to insure these hazards, yet 
they take thousands of dollars out of 
dairymen's pockets annually. Fire and 
lightning are not a drop in a bucket in 
comparison. Nevertheless, the uninsur¬ 
able hazards of the dairy business receive 
scant attention. j. n. m’cluer. 
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. 
Mr. .T. H. McCluer criticizes my article 
on the cost of a quart of milk on the 
ground that I “absolutely refuse to con¬ 
sider by so much as a tentative estimate 
the uninsurable hazards of the dairy bus¬ 
iness.” I did not include any such figures 
because in the first place I gave actual fig¬ 
ures covering actual operations for the 
year without regard to what might have 
happened under other eircuinstances. I 
might be further justified in not includ¬ 
ing such a figure for the very reason that 
lie states later in his letter, as follows: 
“Those best informed would not dare even 
to guess at an adequate or fair rate at 
which to insure these hazards.” I can 
only say in reply to his inquiry as to 
what would have happened if we had ex¬ 
perienced a “late June freeze followed by 
a three-weeks’ dry spell” that no such 
thin c 1 appened with us. As to the usual 
troubles in a herd, such as abortiou. gar¬ 
get. accident to cows, etc., I should say 
we had just about what can generally be 
expected, although we had no such per¬ 
centages as 30 per cent of abortion. I 
should he very suspicious of such a con¬ 
dition. The most promising heifer I 
raised got a had cut in her leg two weeks 
after freshening and in a month was com¬ 
pletely dry, blit I carried her in my herd 
and the loss is represented in the figures 
given. Other cows had minor accidents. 
One cow died and T turned off during the 
year 30 cows, all at a loss, of course, 
which represents a higher turnover than 
I think would normally take place in a 
herd of 50 cows. 
Mr. McCluer made an error in suppos¬ 
ing that my $27,000 worth of farm prop¬ 
erty was fully insured for $40 a year. As 
a matter of fact, I carried only $8,750 
insurance, which was very much too low. 
In April of this year my policies having 
expired, I renewed the insurance for $23,- 
250, at a cost per year of $328.80 at ad 
vanced rates. The cost of feeds pro¬ 
duced I tried to figure at what they were 
worth to us to sell during the year. 
EDGAR BOODY. 
Trespassing Cattle 
Is green buckwheat good to feed milch 
cows to get a big flow of milk? A neigh¬ 
bor’s stock get through his wire fence into 
my crofts, and destroy them. How can I 
get pay for the crops? G. W. M. 
New York. 
Green buckwheat has not been fed to 
milch cows to any very considerable ex¬ 
tent. and there is little opportunity to 
compare it with other soiling crops as to 
value for milk producing purposes. Some 
farmers feeding it, however, have report¬ 
ed good results and I think that there is 
no doubt it is a good food for milch cows, 
even though other crops may surpass it in 
value. The right thing to do in this case 
is to come to some agreement with the 
neighbor as to the amount of damage 
done, and secure an amicable settlement. 
This is often done by the appointment of 
assessors. Each party appoints a neigh¬ 
bor and these two appoint a third. The 
three “view the remains” and assess the 
damage, which is paid by the one at fault. 
This is a far better method than resorting 
to the local courts in a suit for damages., 
though this can he done if the owner of 
the cattle refuses to acknowledge his re¬ 
sponsibility and join in the above-or sftine 
other effort to reach an amicable agree¬ 
ment. " ' M. «. D. 
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