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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1914)
HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Cost and Income From a Dairy Herd Income Includes Value of Butterfat, the Skim Milk, the Calf and Manure, Says Experiment Station Bulletin. TUB NET PROFITS from the dairy herd are the difference between the income and the cost of main tenance, says a Minnesota experiment station bulletin. The income includes the value of the butter fact, the skim milk, the calf and the manure. "The annual cost of mai taining a cow comprises the following items: Cash sundries, cash feeds, farm feeds, labor (man and horse), general ex penses, shelter, depreciation, machinery and equipment, herd bulls am1 interest on investment; the classification' is somewhat arbitrary, as in some in stances an item of cost might be' charged to one class or another with equal correctness. Cash sundries com-! prise thse items for which cash was paid ropes, haltcre, veterinary serv ices and medicine. Cash feeds are those; purchased for cash, farm feeds those! produced on the farm. Labor includes' foot li man and horse labor at the cur rent rate of wages for the month and yMr, comprising all items of labor per formed for and affecting the dairy. General expense comprises those items which are i. charge U the entire farm, and is made op of cash and labor ex penditures. The total for the farm is then apportioned to the productive enterprises of which the dairy is one. She.-r is a fixed charge fcr the use of the buik.inp based on its r.ost, depre ciation, repairs and the number of ani mals sheltered. Depreciation is based upon the productive life, death rate, original value of the cow for consump tion. Machinery and equipment charges are due to the use, depreciation, re pairs and interest on the cost of the machinery and epuipment of the dairy. The charge for herd bulls is the cost of maintenance. Interest on investment is interest at the rate of 5 or 6 per cent on the value of the cow at the beginning of the year. Ml items represent actual ex penditures ou the farms, excepting the charges of shelter and depreciation, which are based on averages of all the farms for the entire period. Oklahomo Schools Test Seeds. IN OKLAIIOIIA the school children test seeds for the farmers. Every teacher iu the state has a scoring ' sheet on which to record tmr testa. Oklahoma Superintendent of Educa tion Wilson in a letter te the depart -t ment of agriculture at'; Washington,1 aays: " " ' ' '." " - . ' '-',:.'- ;' "JTe mbvomcnt has been atarted ia .'" our state ivnieh -can xeotrit in a much ( good-witli o little cost to the people! i generally. It furnint.es en of the beat' lessons that can be taught in botany or-agriculture, and affords the oppor tunity to come in closer contact with every farmer in the community a thing which all good teachers are anxious to de." It certainly sounds resultful; teaches tho children, tests the seed and intro duces ihe teacher and the farmer into each other's good graces. And all these are important effects, but there should be unusual- rejoicing if some one- has found a way to make the teacher and the farmer acquainted. Where one can i find a good teacher and good farmers laboring -together he wilt find a good community for agrieulttire aad a good . eemmunitr Jot . lirtne. Bvery rural . teacher should be a rural, teador, Making Farm life More Pleasant N THE current issue of Fsrm I Fireside. Alice Elizabeth Wells writes an article entitled "A Busi ness Proposition," in which she shows how farmers ought to keep strict ac count books with pages devoted to poultry, calves, pigs, cows, bees, orch ards, gardens, etc., just as any other business is operated. In no other man ner can the farmer tell exactly: what part of his business is profitable. Miss Wolls goes n -to -aay: "I believe no feature of farm like would appeal more forcibly to our girts and boys jhao this, Ic'. them know that topping pigs, eleanieg poultry houses, or spraying fruit troes are only details of a paying business proposi tion and no more disagreeable than: sweeping stores, waiting on unpleasant customers, or dealing with unscrupulous business men, Keeping a book account with flocks and heeds, field and pas tures, adds to the dignity of rural life and to our own self-respect. I venture to add that one traveling through the country with the idea in view of meas uring comparative prof.perity of indi vidual farm-owners can quite accurate ly judge by environment just who make a profession of their business and just who, in a happy-go-lucky manner, follow along in the line of least resist ance, rcjoicir.g in good years and good luck and repining when clouds -refuse. to abed moisture a tens retuM to Stories at Which You Will Smile B'S THE most careful man I ever knew." "That sot" Yes. I asked him if he could change a ten-dollar bill the other )day, and what do you suppose be didt" " "He made ne show the ten before fcVd commit himself. Said he'd been touched for five that way before." - Ifo Belief. " ; I aupopse that you are relieved of. considerable expense, now that it is no longer necessary for you to supply the midnight oil for your son at college! "On the contrary, explained the father, "since commencement I have been impressed with the relatively higher cost of burning midnight gaso line." . Writing That Pays. What does this voune fellow write! I won't have my daughter married to a starving author," Off the handle, as usual, dad. That young fellow wrote $400,000 worth of life insurance last year. " v A Lamb in the Street. "Kidd looks very sheepish lately. He seems to have been thoroughly cowed by -something."" Dido 't you hear! He foolishly took a steer from a bull on a bear market." A Seal Treat. kind. "My wife is an exceedingly hearted woman." "Gives the sparrows some crumbs of bread every day, I see." "And, you may have noticed, occa sionally some crumbs of cake." Clear Inference. "Jim told me a riproaring joke that was played on some member of your club last evening. Were you there!" "Yes, I was there! It was an abom inable farfetched" 'O-ohl Jinx did not tell me that you were the man it was on." No Change. 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