The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-07
american Institute ana Farmers Club
COOPERATIVE BUTTER FACTORIES.

cooperation in butter making. the, milk
being brought within one mile OF the fac
tory before setting.
MIR. Curtis--Such institutions are being
organized 10 different sections of the coun-
try. The system Is as good for butter as
for cheese where the milk can be got to-
gether handy. Milk for butter can't stand
iostling as it can for cheese.
Mr.. Ely have talked with dealers
who say they like the butter made at these
factories, as they find it fresher and more
uniform in quality.
Mr.. Lyman--A dairy-house costs from
$500 to $500, and this will take the milk
Of from fifty to sixty cows. If neighbor-
hoods would combine and build good
spring-house, the quality of butter would
b. considerably enhanced.
yrRaINIAs INDUCEMENTS TO IMMIGRANTS.
C.P. Ramsdell, Spring Grove, Virginia,
mentioned them as follows: l. Nearness
to the great cities aud cheap communica-
ton Herewith. 2. Cheap land, free from
rock, with gently rolling surface. 8. An
abundance Of timber for building and
fencing. A. A mild climate, and, say
upequivocally, healthy one. s. Cheap
labor. This last has come to be ques-
ton, and the club admits Its Importance
by frequently discussing it. employ
two hands one first-class man, and the
other lad of 10. To one pay $11 per
month, and to the other $3 per month.
As is the custom l issue to these hands RAJ
tions weekly, which is three pounds of
pork, and three and half gallons of corn
meal. They have families who cook these
rations, and that is given in lieu of board.
One of these hands, since the middle of
January, has plowed fifty acres for corn
with one team, turning it seven inches
deep with steel pillow. That team is
now narrowing the ground.
These freedmen, I believe, are to-day
the best aborers in the world. Taking
all into account, would farmer prefer
living among rocks and snow to this de-
lightful and fruitful country? There is
one other objection urged to settlement
here: The unfriendliness of the native
citizens to Northern settlers. / brought
my Republican politics with me, and have
never equivocated on that subject and yet
myself, wife and daughters have received
as cordial welcome as though | had been
but the experience of others here. There
fore, I wish to. say that the fearful pictures
drawn by fruitful imaginations of the
"raw head and bloody bones" of personal
abuse and social ostracism have no appli-
cation to this locality. God has given us
magnificent country. What we need is
capital to employ the idle labor, and ener-
getic and snterprising minds proftably to
direct it.
LONGER AND STRONGER.
R. w. Dean, Denver, Coll noticed in
recent report some statements made by
Mr.. George N. Nichols, Of Delphos, Kan,
which need correcting. He says sit is
folly to talk of mild winters where they
have frost ia June and snow storms in
August. New, it is well known that facts
are better than guess work. lived in
Colorado since 1859, and / can truly say
that our winters are more mild and pleas
ant than in any region east of us. As
many as four out of five years blowing
and other teamwork is done every month
from September to May. Last winter and
this, also, blowing has been done on my
farm every month. We generally have a
very hard freeze in December, lasting about
a week, never as much as a month. 1tthen
moderates, and during the rest of the win
ter the weather is splendid frost comes
out of the ground by January, and after
that it only freezes an inch or two at night
to thaw out again by noon Of the next day
Last year kept a record of the days
did not see the sun shine, and it proved
this to be- country of fine weather. Only
three DAYS in the whole year were totally
cloudy. to wit, the oath and 18th of April
and the 11th of August. That was fo
1870. Thus far this year we have seer
the sun every day. will report again
the end of the year. Cattle do live here
and do not often lay on "downy beds" o
cactus to die, though thousands have not
mouthful Of feed of any kind except wha
they get on the range. have pair o
horses now on my pillow that were turnet
ont last November and were not fed evel
once until last week, when they wer
caught and put to work blowing. AL
though they were not fat when taken u
thew looked better than hundreds seen i
city carts any day. In my neighoorhoo'
there is about two hundred head of stock
all kinds running out without feed, and
do not know of any dying this year. 1t
true we have late and early frosts here, bu
in this dry air it does not injure vegetation
as it does where the dews are heavy.
could show Mr.. Nichols snow fit
feet deep in August, within forty mile
from where be could see all kinds of ten
der vegetables growing faster and large
than any he ever saw east OF Colorado
have seen cabbage head with stump CT
off weighing fifty-six pounds, and 9TH
kinds in proportion. How is that K
high !? Mr.. Meeker's judgment Of til
country between Cache la Poudre an
Thompson Rivers is correct, as it is
splendid farming and stock-growing r
gion, with abundance of coal and waite
Can you give me any information abo
the Sanford corn ? Where can | get son
seed of the Chinese yam ? Yours
truth and information for the people.
SCATTERING GOOD SEED IN JAPAN.
Warren Leland desired to lay before t
Club letter he had lately received. 1t
now, be said, just eleven years ago that
company of japanese made the tour
this country. Ope of them returned al
remained year at my farm in Westch'
ter, studying our modes OF agricultu
c;~oo .,o;po hack to Janan | have hea