The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-10-10
bAIR YING.

bALRYING.
We stated in our last issue that Mr..
G. G. Borland, of Iowa, was visiting
the Colony with the view of establish
ing cheese factory here. Mr.. B. has
been in the dairying business for some
20 years in the neighborhood of Iowa
City, and is therefore familiar with the
business. From him we obtained some
facts of interest to those who contem-
plate dairying or cheese-making among
us.
Mr.. Borland began dairying near
Iowa City in 1853 with 80 COWS. For
fifteen years he MIXED from 40 to 60
COWS and used all the milk for cheese
making. The largest Quantity of
cheese made in any one year from 40
COWS was 10000 pounds or 500 pounds
to COW. During a good part Of the
time he sold the cheese at 20 cents a
pound, thus realizing maximum of
$l0O a year from each COW. He fed
mill feed, such as shorts and bran, pay
ing So per ton for this feed, the cost for
each COW being about $40 year or $500
for the 40 COWS. Besides mill feed,
each COW required about two tons of
hay year alta cost Of SIS ton. The
calves were generally sold at three days
old and brought SIS Il head. Thus the
profit on each cow over and above feed,
when the cheese was sold at twenty
cents, was $500 year. From this, of
course, must be deducted the labor and
the outlay of manufacturing the cheese.
One hand will milk ten cows, and two
persons are required to handle the milk
and make the cheese.
1t will thus lie seen that dairying
is. a profitable business. At present,
however, cheese would not command
above IL or Is cents, but even at this
price there are few branches of bust
ness In new country more profitable.
rEGErABLEx
DR.. Moore is having a ''volunteer'' or
second crop Of lettuce in his garden,
grown from seed shed by tile first crop.
B. N. Emerson, Of Bigelow, laid u
white globe turnip on our table which
weighs 124 pounds. Also a cucumber
about IS inches long. Mr.. E. also
brought lis specimen Of 5rcon-corn
which lie is raising with view to en-
gaging in the manufacture of brooms.
Mr.. l.. r. Hollenbeck, Of Bigelow,
last week brought us IL pound cab
bage head. This, he informs US, is not
much above the average OF 600 heads
grown this season. lie also raised
about ri bushels of tomatoes.
Ed. Bear, also Of Bigelow, came at
us a few days ago with formidable
looking club in his hand. It proved to
be 4 beat, not ''dead beat" nor q po-
liceman's ''beat," but ''hard -to-beat"
of the red variety, measuring two feet
in length.
AT this rate we shall be able soon to
open Il County Fair. We hope our
friends will continue to bring in their
finest specimens of vegetables-not
that we care anything about filling our
cellar for tie winter-but we wish to
show our readers what can be done i'll
this county in the way Of farming.
a few days since Il few persons who
are dissatisfied because we are publish
ing al honest newspaper, stating the
facts about the crops and the dcstitu-
ton just as they are, gathered in the
Davis block, and concluded that about
the right thing to do was to throw the
ADVANCE into the lake. We are
amazed at the way these men rush into
danger! They ought to thank their
stars for their narrow escape! 1t is
due to our superior leniency that we
did not pull the building down, Samp-
son-like, upon their heads, and bury
them in one common ruin It is due
TO our desire to avoid a sensation that
the town was not running together ia
king them from the ruins and laying
them in rows upon the grass preparatory
to general and widespread funeral!
The West Wisconsin Railroad has is
sued time card with Worthington as
the initial point and Chicago as the ter
minus. This connecting of the two
cities is fit recognition Of the coming
Importance of our place, At the bot
tom Of the card we notice the name of
W. R. Bennett, our ticket agent.
In our report of Prof. Humiston's re-
marks at the recent temperance meet
ing, the types made him say that a
member of the Agricultural Board was
intoxicated on the Fair grounds. He
should have been reported as saying
that a gentleman who came before the
Board to advocate the sale of liquors on
the grounds was afterwards found in
toxicated.
At the school election on Saturday
night last NJ. B. Soule and J. A. Town
were reelected members of the Board
for one year.