The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-05-10
Dairyiu1 in the West.

The West is becoming more and more
alive to the advantages Of dairy. farm
ing. Last week we had a visN shO1n
Mr.. Dunton, Of Dunton, Illinois, who
came down to Central New York for the
purpose of obtaining = model ofs cheese
house, &c. He says. dairying can be
probably carried on in his section. He
is located about twenty five miles from
Chicago, on the line of railroad leading
to that city, and for several years pas,
has kept dairy, sending milk to the
city. The prices received for milk are
only eight to nine cents per gallon te
the4pdacers, and he has become salts.
fled that more money can be realized by
turning it into cheeae.
At the prices grain is now selling al
the West. he finds it more profitable to
feed to domestic animals than to send "a
market. His usual feed for mich cows
consists of oats and corn ground. and
mixed with bran in the following pro
portions:-Ten bushels Of oats, two BUSH
els of corn and twelve bushels OF bran
the oats and corn ground together and
evenly mixedwith bran. Each cov gets
of this mixture twenty-four quarts per
day, and he says it gives excellent re-
suits in milk.
kcheese factory was recently estab-
Used in that section, and number of his
neighbors propose 10 run private cheese
daifies another season, il his operations
prove successful. In Muscatine, Iowa,
a cheese factory is about to be erected,
under the supervision of an old Herli-
mer county dairyman, NJ. J. Rose
crantz, of Little Falls. Mr.. r. has long
been known as one of the most success
full cheese makers Of Herkimer county,
and the Iowa people are fortunate in Sc
curing the services of so competent a per-
son in all that pertains to cheese man.
ufacture. Thus it appears that we are
daily loosing our most skillful cheese
makers, and instead of supplying the
Western market with the produce ofom
herds, they will soon supply their own
wants, and be in competition with us in
the markets.
1t is question to what extent dairy
ing may be profitably conducted in the
West, but there can scarcely be doubt
but that the field il broader than most of
most Of our people have been led to i'm
agine-Iiicn Hpuld.
Supplying the western market with
the products Of orr herds. and that by
New York farmer! Well, that is rich.
Make cheese in New York and ship it
thousand miles to supply the tables OF
Iowa farmers! 1t is enough to make
man laugh just to think of it, and vet it
Is done! What are the Iowa farmers
about that they don t make their own
cheese, the cheese for their own nom
farming people, cheese for the New
Workers, Cheese for Europe? Why,
they are bigger business. They arc
growing corn at 20 to % cents a bushel, |
delivered at the railroad, or oats at Is
cents! Just now they are having re-
marketable harvest. They are getting q
cents for corn, and can afford to cat lit
tie extra of of New York Cheese.
The Herald is in doubt to what ex-
tent dairyins can be prolitably conduc-
ted at the West. We can assure It until
1T Kills dairving at the Erst. All it
wants to accomplish this is the same
skill and care, perseverance and thor
ough system they combine at the East,
and our western farmers can take the
markets OF the world. They will come
70 1t some day, though slow to begin.
Eastern agriculture has received as vet
no such fatal competition from the West
as Is In store for it from western diaries,
-Iow0 city RcpubAcan,