The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
BungtOWn Farmers Club.

MISTER EDITUR-We had big crowd
at our March mectin' of the club, and
there was few of the wimmin folks
come out to the meetin'. This kinder
skeered some of our fellcrs, but they
got ust to it pretty soon, and l think we
had good meetin'. Jack Dwiggins
begun by saying: 'rve been lookin'
round 20 see how the cows was man.
aged in Bungtown, and cum to the
confusion that if the majority is rite,
that the way to keep the cows in Win
ter is at a straw-stack or in q fence
corner, fur that's the way most of 'em
is kept. But I've bin at three or four
houses to dinner or supper since we
had our last meetin', and found that
butter was mighty skace, and what lit
tie thar wus, wus as white as lard. They
said it wus the cOrnstalks that made it
go white: but guess twas the want of
'em, fur I've been to Jehu Simses and
he has been feedin' six cows on corn
stalks, and has made good deal of
butter, and it's rite yaller, too. went
down to the grocery and found that
butter wus sellin' at thirty cents a pound,
and they couldn't get as much as they
wanted at that.
1.-The storekeeper sed: "A good many
of the farmers hev to buy butter when
they hev company and go without it the
rest of the winter; but as soon as grass
comes butter'll be down to dime a
pound
"'Where do you git butter nowP'"
SEE l.
"Oh, thar's few farmers in Bung-
town that's got some warm stables fixed
up and is a feedin' their cows high, and
they make a good deal of butter, but l
don't believe it pays. 'em.'''
"NOw. MIR. President" seq l, ''this
is jest what want to find out. My old
woman and me has come to the conklu-
sion that it don't pay to make butter in
summer at ten cents a pound, and our
cows are mighty apt to go dry in win
ter. You see the cold water sets them
to shivverin' SO when we hev to cut the
ice in the creek for 'em to drink, and
they git mighty poor, too, aforc spring.
and we think we are doin' pretty well
if we get butter enuff to have it on the
table once a day. But want to hear
what Jehu Simms hes to say on this
subject Jehu Simms said:
''Mister President, l bought one of
the Farmer account books. and my gal
that's been away to school has bin keep
in accounts in it, and got her to make
a copy of the account she hes been a
keepin' with the cows for three
months, December, January and Feb
ruary. We heven't charged nothin'
fur the corn fodder, as l allow the ma
nure is worth what that cost, and our
cows hain't had any hay. There
wusent any fresh cows among them,
either, but one of them had been CIV
ing milk twenty-one months and another
twelve when we begun keepin' the ac-
count, and the others was fresh in May
and June. But here is the account
Hooked over it and was mighty we'll
pleased, for it was ritten jest as nice as
Good be, and it showed how much but
ter they had made each week, but as l
allowed you woodent hev room for it, 1
asked Jehu's girl (for she was at the
meetin') to add it up for me, and here
is what she gave me:
Butter produced from cows in 3months. 200 Ne
css shba ssp per a fG s. cts per n 80 g
Cost of keeping:
IS bushels OF 1850 ibs. Of corn meal at Is "
Is bushels Of soft corn at Is cts. bu:::::: Sc
Total :. $3.50. SO IS
front .......................... ~ 70
When finished readin' it Jehu said,
"You see that got about two dollars
back for every one paid out fur feed,
and when spring comes my cows will
be with five dollars apiece more than
the crobates that hev shivered out
doors all winter"
Joe Tucker said, 81 want to ask
some questions
go ahead" says Jehu.
Didn't you put your corn pretty
low? It's bin sellin' at sales fur mor'n
that, and you had to shell it and takeit
to mill"
II know" says Jehu, ''that it's been
sold ut sales on twelve months credit
fur more, but twenty-five cents is as
much as l could a got for it to hev
hauled it off to WHARF they wus buyin'
corn, and it didn't cost much more to
shell it. We tramped out a hundred
bushels in half a day with four hoss-
es, and we I'D it cold day when we
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