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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1914)
15 The Dairyman's Best Crop HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION NONE LEAVENS BETTER And thus produces lighter cakes and biscuits than Crescent Baking . Powder Its purity1 Is guaranteed and so la the moderate price. 25 cents Per Lb. ASK YOUR GROCER CRESCENT MFG. CO., Seattle, Wn. Cowpeas Good Food Cowpeaa are particularly well suited for use In localities where they will mature crops and both their nutritive value and cheapness, as well as their good flavor and the numerous ways in which they can be used should rec ommend them to the housewife. Though favorably known as c staple food In the southern states, the cow pea has not come Into general use throughout the United States. It is well worth greatly extended use as It is wholesome, nutritive and possesses a peculiar delicate and pleasing flavor. Cowpeas are used on the table in three forms, in the pod, shelled green, and shelled dried. In these three forms they correspond respect ively, to string beans, shelled green peas, and dried navy beans, and call for much the same methods of prepa ration for the table. We Make Large Loans Upon Improved City and Farm Properties IN WASHINGTON AND OREGON Making the Mortgage to secure a number of Notes or Bonds of $100, $500 and $1,000 each. The form of the bond and mortgage is, so far as possible, identical with the small loan where the note and mortgage are assigned to the purchaser. We have at present several very attractive issues of such bonds, maturing from 1 to 10 years, netting 7 per cent. Let us tell you about them. Jacob Fur h John Da via r. K. Strnve J. H. Patrick V. D. Miller DAVIS & STRUVE BOND CO. INVESTMENT BROKERS 807 Second Avenue Seattle By If. L. Warn hard T7 N' casting about for an agricultural, II state-wide, timely topic, the writer " cannot but believe that the topic relating to the rearing of heifer calves heads the list. This crop has for many years been very greatly neglected by the dairymen of the state, for which neglect not only are the dairymen and farmers in general now paying the penalty In being compelled to send abroad for the cows that are needed to maintain their herds, and paying therefor high prices, but the agricul tural Interests of the entire state are feeling the effects of the wholesale slaughter of the heifer calves that has been going on for irtuny years. Of all the mistakes that have been made by our dairymen and alt others who have been interesting themselves in the work of developing the dairy Interests of the state, the neglect to produce and develop heifer calves, and par ticularly dairy heifer calves, amounts to nothing less than one egregious blunder. It has been clearly demon strated that the very general slaugh ter of the heifer calves, regardless of their quality for dairy purposes, has no only been a sin but a very unbusi nesslike practice. In the writer's opinion, there is little hope of success in any efforts that our dairymen of the state may put forth in the matter of eradicating the diseases, abortion and tuberculosis, so long as we con tinue to import cows from any and all parts of the country. When our heifer calves arc raised upon milk that is produced by healthy cows only then and not till then may we be hopeful of reducing the prevalence of tuber culosis to the minimum within our state. So little attention is being given to the raising of heifer calves by our dairymen that the writer feels safe in saying that there are not one half dozen dairymen In the Northwest, who from their own knowledge know the cost of raising a heifer calf to producing age. In explanation as to how this unfortunate condition hap pened It is but fair to say that only a few years ago cows could be bought and sold for about what It now costs to raise them. At the present time, however, a desirable cow will cost about three times as much as It costs to raise a heifer to producing age, if not more. What Is the eost of raising the heifer? Assuming the herd to com prise 15 or 20 cows and the head of the herd the sire it would, we think, be fair to make the initial cost of the calf when born $5. And fur ther assuming that the better practice in raising calves be followed, that of liberal feeding Instead of permitting them to very largely shift for them selves after a few weeks of age, It would require approximately the fol lowing feeds to raise the calf to six months old: 350 lbs. whole milk f 1.50 per cwt 15.25 3.000 lbs. skim milk Ifji 2f,c per cwt 7.5o 100 lbs. of hay 60e per cwt.. .60 100 lbs. grain 1.50 80 days pasture 1.50 Total $16.25 The calf at six months of age and weaned, vi 11 have cost for feed $16.25 which, added to the initial cost, $5.00, eqauls $21.25. Assuming that the calf freshens in Seattle. Wash. Under new management entire change in all departments all rooms - redecorated and refurnished Particular attention is now being paid to prompt, efficient and courteous service. DAILY RATES $2.00 Up With Private Bath $1.00 Up Without Private Bath Mel Butler Cafe THE FINEST IN SEATTLE Service the Best Cuisine Unexcelled ROBERT J. ROBINSON Manager 1 the fall a 28 months of age the fol lowing additional charges for feed will be necessary before she becomes a producer, viz: 6 mos. pasturage 50c $ 3.00 10 mos. pasture it $1.00 10.00 700 lbs. grain $1.50 per cwt... 10.50 ?4 ton hay 6.00 2 tons succulent feed 5.00 Total $33.60 $33.50 plus $21.25 equals $54.75 the total feed cost of the heifer at 28 months of age, and all the feed charged up may be produced on the farm, since oats may be grown on practically every farm In the state and there is no grain that is superior to oats for the growing calf. The grade heifer at producing age is worth from $80 to $100, and thus we have an ample margin of profit to cover any legitimate labor charge, and the manure will adequately compensate for any legitimate interest and de preciation charges. It will be readily noticed that the farmer will need to seek a long tima to find a better market for his crops and his labor than by feeding 'the home grown crops on the farm, in the rearing of vigorous and healthy heifers to replenish his herd and to sell to his neighbors. Again, if the grade of dairy cows is to be improved, it must be accom pplished through raising the heifer out of the best producing cows and sired by a good pure bred- sire and not through buying the cowa that other states and sections have to sell. 111 Laflv'lSeeA an not an tnei thev am teftad In our lakoialarv and trial aronnda. lhv a toenail adartedlotWPscificNorthwitfiiKl J are true to mum. Uui valuable cat atonia will ba scot tree en leaus. DaalenseU Lilly Seetb, Uuol,wnl. 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