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Title
Peoples State Bank Holstein Club, Rossville, Kansas
Description
To the Members of Our Holstein Club
We wish to thank each and every member for their help, kindness and patience shown in the distribution of our grade Hol¬stein heifers that arrived last week.
Not one complaint was made by a member that he hadn’t got a fair deal and wasn’t satisfied. That makes it more of a pleasure to us to exert ourselves in a move¬ment of this kind when all the boys are good sports and willing to take their chance.
These cattle were brought from the Holstein Center of Wisconsin where grading has reached its highest point. In that vicinity, land that don’t lay as well as our upland brings $300 and more an acre and large fine improvements predominate. They have better blue grass but they have little success with alfalfa so we have a good substitute.
It is our hope that it will result in a Holstein movement around Rossville and then we will raise more cow feed on the upland and less grain making land less sub¬ject to wash as it did this spring for instance. And what can be done on the upland can be done on a greater scale in the bottoms. Every farm has silos in Wiscon¬sin even if it is only a hole in the ground.
When Holsteins are thick enough here then it will be soon enough to co-operate towards im¬proving our market, bringing in a condensery, creamery etc. such as has been done at Mulvane and Tonganoxie, Kans.
Mr. Morris Bond gave us of his time liberally and used his best judgment together with help of an expert who knew the territory and cattle and was painstaking in getting right prices and heifers only from heavy milkers. Now that they are here it is up to you to develop the cows. Be gentle with them and look after them closely. In Wisconsin they don't have any dogs because they are afraid they will worry the cattle. Be careful with yours. You know a dog at the heels of a fine thorough-bred mare would make the mare very nervous so with high bred milk cows. Be careful of alfalfa for awhile. If you give them conditions similiar [sic] to those where they came from for awhile, such as shady pasture and good water they will rapidly pick up and by spring you will have some¬thing worth while.
As to the sale provision in the spring, we are not sure of pulling that off. We will talk with you about it. We would like to have an exhibition if we don’t have the sale and will offer some good prizes for best looking criters [sic].
Our expense amounted to $122.80 for freight and feed en-route. Other expense including railroad fare of Bond, hotel bills, auto hire, telegrams etc. and a few expenses here amounted to $61.14 which adds to the price we paid of each cow, $5.10 on each.
Let us hear whenever you are in how the heifer is doing. If these animals give satisfaction or appear to we will get several more cars in. Many have already asked to be included next time. Whether any more comes in or not depends the demand.
Peoples State Bank
We wish to thank each and every member for their help, kindness and patience shown in the distribution of our grade Hol¬stein heifers that arrived last week.
Not one complaint was made by a member that he hadn’t got a fair deal and wasn’t satisfied. That makes it more of a pleasure to us to exert ourselves in a move¬ment of this kind when all the boys are good sports and willing to take their chance.
These cattle were brought from the Holstein Center of Wisconsin where grading has reached its highest point. In that vicinity, land that don’t lay as well as our upland brings $300 and more an acre and large fine improvements predominate. They have better blue grass but they have little success with alfalfa so we have a good substitute.
It is our hope that it will result in a Holstein movement around Rossville and then we will raise more cow feed on the upland and less grain making land less sub¬ject to wash as it did this spring for instance. And what can be done on the upland can be done on a greater scale in the bottoms. Every farm has silos in Wiscon¬sin even if it is only a hole in the ground.
When Holsteins are thick enough here then it will be soon enough to co-operate towards im¬proving our market, bringing in a condensery, creamery etc. such as has been done at Mulvane and Tonganoxie, Kans.
Mr. Morris Bond gave us of his time liberally and used his best judgment together with help of an expert who knew the territory and cattle and was painstaking in getting right prices and heifers only from heavy milkers. Now that they are here it is up to you to develop the cows. Be gentle with them and look after them closely. In Wisconsin they don't have any dogs because they are afraid they will worry the cattle. Be careful with yours. You know a dog at the heels of a fine thorough-bred mare would make the mare very nervous so with high bred milk cows. Be careful of alfalfa for awhile. If you give them conditions similiar [sic] to those where they came from for awhile, such as shady pasture and good water they will rapidly pick up and by spring you will have some¬thing worth while.
As to the sale provision in the spring, we are not sure of pulling that off. We will talk with you about it. We would like to have an exhibition if we don’t have the sale and will offer some good prizes for best looking criters [sic].
Our expense amounted to $122.80 for freight and feed en-route. Other expense including railroad fare of Bond, hotel bills, auto hire, telegrams etc. and a few expenses here amounted to $61.14 which adds to the price we paid of each cow, $5.10 on each.
Let us hear whenever you are in how the heifer is doing. If these animals give satisfaction or appear to we will get several more cars in. Many have already asked to be included next time. Whether any more comes in or not depends the demand.
Peoples State Bank
Creator
Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas
Publisher
Rossville Community Library
Date
Possibly 1922
Rights
Public domain
Format
newspaper
Identifier
RCL0304
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