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Title: Sorghums : sure money crops
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Borman, Thomas Allen, 1872-
Subjects: Sorghum
Publisher: Topeka : The Kansas Farmer Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t expended in any otherwork. I have numerous records of far western Kansas andOklahoma and eastern Colorado farmers who arerealizing $35 to $45 per cow per year from a herd often cows, this income being from the sale of butter fatalone. The value of the calf, the value of the skim milkfor feeding calves, pigs and chickens, will come nearequaling the income named. Such amount of money hascome from the milking of the so-called common cows,fed on sorghum roughage and grains and the pastureof the plains, and given such care as the ingenuity ofthe careful and painstaking owner makes possible. Western Kansas Cow Income. C. W. Jones ofThomas County, Kansas, milks cows in the fat yearsas well as in the lean years. In 1912 he milked 14cows and here is his report: Cream sold, $555.76;twelve calves raised worth $25 each, $300; cream andbutter eaten at home, $60; 1,500 pounds of hogs fattenedfrom milk and slop, $105; total, $1,020.76, or an aver-age income for the year of $72.91 per cow. You cant
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DEVELOPMENT OF SORGHUM BELT 41 tell Mr. Jones that it does not pay to milk cows, for hehas the figures to prove that it does. The importantthing, however, is that every sorghum belt farmer whow^ill get a bunch of cows can do as well. Henry P. Von Ann of Sheridan County, Kansas,milked ten cows during 1912 and here is his statement:Cream sold, $609.91; nine calves raised, worth $25 each,$225; home use of milk and cream, $50; total, $884.91,or an average per cow, of $88.49. Oklahoma Cow-Milking Results. During the year1911 the dairy department of the Oklahoma AgriculturalCollege investigated the income from the milking herdson 100 farms widely distributed throughout the state.The average return per cow per year for 33 herds, onwhich complete returns were obtained, ranged from$18.75 to $54.55 per cow. This gives a good idea ofthe income from the farmers cow in Oklahoma. In-cidentally it shows the difference in cows, too, pointingto the fact that it is worth while to have good cows.But, th

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