Whole Milk, Butter or Cream—Which? 
Will you give advice in regard to making butter on 
the farm or selling the milk? We have a small dairy, 
Vnd are making the butter on the farm and selling it in 
i eitv about seven miles distant. We have four Spring 
enlves and one shote that we are feeding with the skim- 
ill- We weighed the milk that went into one churn- 
ents 
per pound for the butter, or the nutter was worm $14.03 
•V 'llxiut^two 1 miles, and from there the farmers take 
it abo . ,, . .. ..it,, about five miles further, 
! nl „'' There were 530 pounds of milk, and it churned 
‘>3 pounds of butter. We are receiving 60 to 61 c 
- „„(1 for the butter, or the butter was worth $1 
of 
turns drawing it on to the city, 
old, one in his turn. The prices arc*: August. 8% 
‘ K .,. sipntember 0 cents, or one cent above the League 
ZSl They do not 0 sell on the test, but 8 SV 2 and 9 
cents for these three months. To sell 530 pounds of 
milk at 8 cents per quart 
would be worth-$19.68, or 
the milk that made $14.03 
worth of butter is worth 
t( , se n $19.6S this month ; 
next month it would be 
worth one-half cent more 
per quart, or there is 
%') 65 difference in 4y2 
(lavs’ milk. Can we feed 
the four calves and one 
nig $5.65 worth of milk 
in iy 2 days at a profit? 
We” have seven cows 
giving milk, five year¬ 
lings and four calves. 
Would it not be better to 
sell the yearlings and 
calves and buy some fresh 
cows to feed our crops to. 
than to winter the young 
stock? We fed the five 
yearlings last 11 inter 
what hay they would eat 
and about 40 bushels of 
oats. They are common 
(grades, and $25 apiece 
was all they were worth 
in the Spring. Did we 
lose money on them? 
Would it not be better 
business to sell the young 
stock, buy some fresh 
cows and sell the milk, 
than it would be to raise 
young stock and make 
butter? I figure those 
five yearlings that were 
worth $125 cost us about 
$200 to winter. If we 
had milk cows in their 
places, we could sell our 
hay, grain and corn fodder 
to them for more than we 
could to the young stock. 
I contend there is no 
money in raising young 
stock unless they are 
purebred. w. it. c. 
Broome Co., N. Y. 
C ONFIRMATION OR 
ADVICE—It would 
appear that the letter of 
W. H. B. calls for con¬ 
firmation rather than 
advice. They have fig¬ 
ured out that they ai*e 
feeding $5.65 worth of 
milk to four calves and 
a shote in 4*4 days. 
They also tell us that 
their yearlings would 
only bring $25 a head 
this Spring, after they 
had fed at least $25 
worth of hay and grain 
to winter them. At 
that rate they were 
worth absolutely noth¬ 
ing in the Fall. It 
seems to me that the 
heifers should have been 
worth nearer $50 a head 
last Spring than $25. I 
think that perhaps they 
made a mistake in not 
feeding more grain last 
Winter. Of course we 
all know that a mere 
maintenance ration 
doesn’t get us anywhere. 
We must not only keep 
the animal alive, hut 
make it grow in sat¬ 
isfactory m a n n e r to 
stand any chance of getting our money back. 
that it was a losing game 
pounds of milk a day in? k^r three-year-old form, 
and the granddam was a cow of very unusual heavy 
milking and transmitting quality. I raised this calf 
in good shape; in fact, just the same as my pure- 
breds. Yet I have been unable to sell her at any¬ 
where near the cost of raising. 
SELLING MILK.—There is no doubt in my mind 
that it pays better to sell whole milk where the haul 
is not loo long. I followed butter-making on a hill 
farm for 20 years, and if I had not had purebred 
Jerseys to help me out, both in economical produc- 
This can full of valuable farm produce is little Miss Marguerite F. Beebe, of Rhode Island. This can 
carries a high per cent of cream and is not for sale at the regular League price. An offer of $10,000 per 
pound would not be considered. A fine crop for a dairy farm. 
But 
last 
1 will admit 
yea r. 
RAISING A HEIFER.—I raised one grade heifer 
fiist year, not because I expected to get my money 
hack, but because I felt that it was a little less than 
a crime to kill such a calf. She was a practically 
purebred Holstein, her sire being registered and of 
■acted breeding. The dam of the calf gave me 65 
sale of surplus cattle. I would have 
slim. But this is a market milk sec¬ 
tion and the 
fared pretty 
tion, and the people who come here to buy cattle 
come to buy the market milk kind—Holsteins. If 
one does what the majority of the people in a given 
section do he will not go far from doing the best 
thing. People as a whole do not follow a fad «r 
fancy. After a section has been farmed for a hun¬ 
dred years or more you are pretty apt to find the 
inhabitants doing the thing that the country is best 
adapted to and that pays the best. 
HOLSTEINS vs. JERSEYS.—Personally, I think 
that the Jersey cow will give a greater return in 
food value for the stuff she eats than any other cow. 
I spent 20 years in trying to make other people think 
the way I thought. Then it percolated into my skull 
that it is easier to let. a man have what he wants 
than it is to convince him that he wants something 
different. Men have come here after Holsteins—and 
Holsteins I let them have. But these men are neither 
insane nor foolish. They 
have learned that the 
Holstein cow will pro¬ 
duce more market milk 
at a lower cost than any 
other cow. Of course 
you know that market 
milk must contain three 
per cent of fat, to he 
legal, and as a general 
proposition the nearer 
you can keep it down to 
the legal mark the more 
the profit will he. Of 
course we get four cents 
a point for surplus but- 
terfat. but one would be 
foolish to sacrifice the 
quantity of milk for the 
sake of producing but- 
terfat at 40 cents per 
pound. As an illustra¬ 
tion : A cow giving 70 
pounds of three per cenr 
milk produces $2.10 
when milk is $3 per hun¬ 
dred. A cow giving 35 
pounds of five per cent 
milk produces $1.33. 
TUBERCULOSIS A 
MENACE—All kinds of 
farming is a gamble at 
the best. My guess is 
probably worth about as 
much as the average 
man’s would be. There 
are indications that 
dairy cattle will he 
higher. One thing that 
may make them so is 
the fact that both the 
State and Federal Gov¬ 
ernment are making a 
drive to eradicate tuber¬ 
culosis from the herds. 
How much this will re¬ 
duce the dairy cows of 
the country depends on 
how many dairymen 
avail themselves of the 
opportunity the Govern¬ 
ment offers. There is 
no doubt hut that tuber¬ 
culosis is very generally 
spread through the cat¬ 
tle of the country, and 
I think that if all the 
dairy cattle were tested 
and the reactors slaugh¬ 
tered that dairy cows 
and milk products would 
bring unheard-of prices. 
One herd of 40 animals 
showed 13 reactors. Up¬ 
on slaughter and post¬ 
mortem examination one 
was found to be in a 
generalized condition, 
and her carcass was 
tanked. Niue were 
found to he in a local¬ 
ized condition, and they went for beef. Three were 
found to be perfectly healthy, and they went for 
beef also. For they were just as dead as the others, 
and their days as milk producers and calf raisers 
were ended. This herd was probably about an 
average of the cattle of the country. They had been 
kept under good sanitary conditions and the usual 
precautions taken to keep them healfchy. As a gen¬ 
eral proposition, I should produce milk if l wore 
