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Hiring Out Cows 
I would like your opinion on letting 
throe of my cows out for the season; 
that is, for the time cows are in pasture. 
Ought I to have some compensation? If 
■so, how much? My cows are grade Jer¬ 
seys. as good as the average. One is six 
years old. due to freshen July 2.8. Two 
are young, and had their first calves this 
last Fall .nd Winter; the oldest one due 
to freshen October 27. or about the time 
they would leave the pasture; the 
youngest not bred yet. We make butter 
and are having trouble to dispose of it 
at a paying price; that is. a part of it. 
Have regular customers for some of it. 
This part is all right. But t! e remainder 
(nearly one-half) we have been sending 
to the commission merchants of Boston. 
Taken altogether, it just about pays for 
what we have to buy to feed the cows, and 
we give our time and hay. Feed is very 
costly; butter and eggs have been drop¬ 
ping in price for some time back, but 
there is no drop in feed. We have been 
making butter to sell for 10 years, and 
it has paid fairly well until this past 
Winter. We keep four cows and cows 
are first put in pasture about May 15 in 
this section. We anticipate trouble about 
pasturage for the coming season, there¬ 
fore the thought of letting three of the 
cows to a person who lives near a boys’ 
Summer camp, and furnishes the camp 
with milk ; milk and keep the remaining 
cow for our own use. F. M. S. 
Maine. 
A little more should be known of the 
local conditions relating to the price of 
pasturage and the price of milk, but re¬ 
plying on the basis of conditions as T 
know them here, and as I suppose they 
may be in his town, I think it would work 
out about as follows: 
The pasturage for the six-year-old eow 
would cost here $7 for the season. Pas¬ 
turage for the other two would cost at 
least $10. This would give the owner 
of the cows the equivalent of $17. The 
milk from the older cow, which is due to 
freshen July 2S, probably wouldn’t be 
til to use before August 10, as she is 
likely to carry the calf a little overtime. 
She would, therefore, be at her best at 
about the time the camp people would 
use her milk to the best advantage. The 
youngest would be a source of income dur¬ 
ing the whole scasou. but I am unable 
to say how much more than the value of 
her pasturage this would be worth, but 
the price the milk would bring in that 
market at that, time would probably make 
it worth $5 for the season. 
There would be then $12 left, of the 
cost of pasturage. The writer doesn’t 
say who is to have the calf. Of course, 
this will have to be taken off the cow. as 
her milk is to he used for the camp. A 
good-sized calf is worth here, to be fed 
for veal as soon as the milk is good. $5. 
If the calf is sold at that time for that 
price, it will further reduce the cost of 
pasturage to $7. 
We have now readied the older cow, 
and the balance hangs <m what her milk 
would be worth. At a place where these 
Summer camps are common, as in this 
locality, there ought to he some estab¬ 
lished price, or custom, for this. As I 
have never known of cows being let dur¬ 
ing the Summer in such cases, I am not 
able to make more than a guess what this 
would be. I will, however, venture to 
say that $15 is not an unreasonable price 
for the use of this cow. If I am right 
in this guess, there should be $8 coming 
to the owner of the cows at the close of 
the season. b. walkek m’kkf.v, 
I' ryeburg, Me. 
This part of Greene County is mostly 
dairying, potatoes, oats, corn for silage, 
and buckwheat. Most of the farmers sold 
their potatoes from $1.50 to $2 per bu., 
and the same potatoes were resold for 
$3.o0 to $4 per bu. We are 11 miles from 
a creamery, so most of the farmers are 
making butter. There is a creamery here 
in town, but it is closed. We should be 
glad to have some reliable dealer come 
here and open up this plant; he would get 
lots, of milk. Practically no farm help 
in sight. The men have left for jobs that 
pay almost double what a farmer could 
afford to pay. It is plain we will have to 
produce less. I have nearly 400 acres, 
with 40 head of cattle; no sure help ex¬ 
cept wife and three children, 8. 11 and 15 
years. We have good success with cab¬ 
bage as a side line. I would like to grow 
several acres this year if I could get a 
man for say $3 per day, board and lodging 
free. It is cold here in the Catskill 
Mountains; are making maple sugar and 
syrup now (April 19). Not much plow¬ 
ing done yet. The people here in this sec¬ 
tion also depend on the city boarders in 
July and August, when thousands of them 
flock here where the nights are very cool. 
Greene Co., N, Y. w. T. 8. 
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It’s made of strong, smooth 
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Milk is worth $3.63 per 100 lbs., de¬ 
livered at creamery, 4 per cent test. 
Eggs. 48c a doz.; I2c more for R. I. Red 
eggs for hatching purposes; 8c for other 
breeds. Bologna cows. 4c per lb., live. 
Fat cows, bulls and steers, ,8 to 10c per 
lb.; must be corn fed. .Hogs, 16c per lb., 
live weight; fowls. 32c. live weight; roost¬ 
ers. 24c; calves. 17 to 19c. Conditions are 
such as to be discouraging; personally. I 
ani going to sell my cattle and go in for 
poultry; hogs and sheep for a side line. 
Many farmers have sold out, and every 
other, and I might say seven out of 10 
farmers have their places for sale. Farm 
products do not seem to have any value. 
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