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Wisconsin Dairymen's Association / Tenth annual report of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association : held at Sheboygan, Wis., January 11-13, 1882. Report of the proceedings, annual address of the president, and interesting essays relating to the dairy interests
(1882)
Eastman, E.
Mixed farming, pp. 98-100
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MIXuD FARMING. 99 dred and forty sheep, and hogs according to the requirements of the farm. It will be well to mention here, that I usually raise and feed out upon the farm every year from two thousand five hundred to three thousand bushlas ears of corn, one thousand to one thou- snd two hundred pusnels of oats, and from sixty to eighty tons of hay. FARx AccouNT. Receipts for veal, butter, milk and cheese .......... ................ $1,625 Receipts for whcat........................... 154 Receipts for barley ............................................. 493 Receipts for hogs ................................................ 450 Receipts for sheep and wool ................... ................ 869 Receipts for beef and growth on young stock ........... .......... 185 Receipts for wood and lumber ..................... 150 Receipts for miscellaneous ....................... 214 Total receipts ............................................ $3,640 Pad out for hired help ............................. ....... $580 Paid out for board ........................................ 200 Paid out for threshing ..................................... 70 Paid out for dairy supplies....................0 ............ 0 Paid out for plaster ........................................ 18 Paid out for four tons bran ................ : ..... 40 Paid out for taxes............................. .... ....... 140 Paid out for insurance .................................... 12 Paid out for blacksmithing and repairs ......... ............ 60 Allowed for superintending ...........6....0............... 600 Total expenses .................... 1... ............. .. - 1780 Netreceipts.................................................... $1,860 Which will be equal to six per cent. on $31,000. I contend that mixed farming is not only more profitable, but better adapted to utilize labor. You can keep the most of your help the year round, and make a saving to them by having constant employment. In winter we take care of the stock first, and the remainder of the time we work in the woods clearing up and cutting decaying tim- ber into wood and saw logs, which is either used upon the farm or sold in the market. It will be well to state here that the most of the milk from the 8th of April to the 28th of November has been worked up in a factory into full cream cheese. The receipts re- ported from the dairy being $65 per cow, without taking into con-
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