Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-04-18

ttVcly SAFE, iuu HaVc UOnc muCn W
help the trade in this important ar
ticle of food. But for all that eggs
are high and grain and meat low /;
less attention is given to the former
than in the old time, when they
were worth about fourth of what
they are now. Almost every coun-
try merchant complains of n falling
Oft of the supply of eggs from his
patrons.
There is money in dairy products.
In no year perhaps since co-opera-
tive dairies commenced operations
in this country, has the business Of
cheese-making been more profitable
for many, if not for all future years.
We are eating more cheese at home
than formerly, and the demand
abroad for American cheese is in
creasing every year. No business
apparently stands OH a frmcr f'un-
dation, and none has a more prom
Using future than cheese making.
There is, always has been and
long will be, money in good butter:
But the article must be really good
to secure good price. There
are few things that Il farmer
can produce that pay better, take
the years as they come, than good
butter. It's true that some outlay
is required to procure the necessa-
ry requisites for making butter per-
fectly, and that skill is required in
its manufacture. But like may be
said of almost any other business on
the farm or otherwise. There
seems to be but little danger OF an
over production of butter or but
little prospect that prices will be
low in the future. People do not
engage ordinarily in dairy farming
in new countries, and to-day the
dairy regions of this country are
taxed to supply our rapidly increas-
ing population. Railway and ex-
press companies have favored this
branch of trade by providing retrig-
orator ears and by making time con
tracts for transportation. With all
the acknowledgements that stare the
grain, produce and stock raiscrs in
the face, the future of butter making
seems hopeful. The encourage
mcnt is good for farmers who are
located on farms adapted to that
to improve their dairy
stock and to prepare for mannfac-
turing butter rs leading if not an
exclusive business.
There is money in extra early ar
ticles, whether they are of the field
and garden or the increase OF tlocks
and herds. The first asparagus.
peas, strawberries, and potatoes
that arrive in market always com
mand high price. The same may
be said of chickens, lambs or veal
calves-whcther beef or pork rules
high or low on "change,' early
spring chickens will bring six dol
lars dozen in the market and fine
spring lambs bring twenty cents
per pound at the stalls. Fine veal
will at high price in March or
April whether cut meats are high
or low. Indeed there always ap,
pear to be people in large cities
ready to buy Iuxuries and to pay fan
cy prices for them, whether they
consist of articles Of farm produce
raised before their season, or arti-
cles from other countries.
1t may be said that all these arti-
clcs are little things, too lnslgnif-
cant to engage the attention of large
farmers, like those who inhabit the
valley of the Mississippi; but it
should be remembered that the
great sums are made of small items.
Any expense account will be found
composed Of small items, the
worth of which individually is very
small. The worth Of the dairy pro-
ducts of this country is reckoned by
hundreds of millions of dollars
The cost of butter alone in many
families in towns and cities is more
than equal to the amount of bread
stuffs consumed. The value Of eggs
is known and appreciated by farmers
who live where little corn and wheat
IAN be raised. The eggs produced
IN many towns in New England is
sufficient to purchase all the flour
1sed by the inhabitants. In many
cases they buy in addition, western
corn for feeding beef cattle and fat
.ening hogs. The farmers of the
West, with their abundance of the
eading crops have come to despise
he little things that bring in money,
Little at time, it may be, but after
III much in the aggregate. Many
country merchants affirm that less
is now paid to making but
er and producing eggs, on part OF
heir patrons, than in the early days
If the country. Farming on large
,cale had caused them to neglect
hose little sources of revenue which
.eceivcd their attention before their
lcres were Sc many or their farms
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