Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-17
producers, but We shall not condne our pen

producers, but We shall not conine our ne,
closely to any given subject.
Cooperation is not partnenship-it Il
more properly a community Of effort OF in
tereet. The tendency of progress 10 in the di
rection of co.operation-witness our system
Of highways as against the "old pike sys
tem"7-our public schools, our churches, oul
grists mills, and many Of our most valued
institutions. Any interest or work in which
the people have equal, general interest is i,
a sense cooperative. Let us explain by /,
comparison:
A single farmer here in the valley of tn
Missouri, upon these fertile bottom lands
enters into
II CULTIVATION OF PEPPERMINT,
. product e%minently fitted for such an al
lavial soil. He finds the labor which he EN-
ploys strange to it. He must instruct that
When the straw or crop is grown he 6ndsn NJ
market for it until it is changed a. mer
chandise into peppermint oil. The distil
lery must be provided by him-the labor o
diatillation must be conducted by him
When the form of peppermint oil is reach
ed he finds no home market tor it, because
it is the first of the kind produced in tn,
valley and he u need seek a distant mar
ket. Not so if the farmers of the valley
enter upon it's production generally. Their
central distilleries will be erected and man
aged by skilled labor. A market will grow
up for it, at Elk Point, Vermillion and 9th
er places, and this product, costing but little
to freight to far distant markets, will be
found a profitable industry: 1t is paying
the interest upon a cash value of 500 pei
acre on lands not as favorable as these fol
its production at Lyons, N. Y. Let the
farmers of this valley unite and a like pros.
perity would be likely to result here.
This question is also illustrated, by refer
ence to the sugar interest of the Gulf states.
Time was when every sugar producing es-
combining the crushing Of the cane and
lasses. We all remember the picture in
the mule operating it. and the negro operat-
production of a very inferior article Of mer-
chandise and required the employment of
more or less skilled labor upon each planta-
ton. A different system is coming into
vogue. An establishment is located con
veniently for a dozen or more cane growers,
where skilled labor is employed and the
cane is crushed by steam, and the juice
evaporated by steam. The product costs
less than under the old system, and is
vastly improved. Not only is the labor
more efficient. but scientific attachments are
brought into use which could 20 under the
old method. The south will reap large
benefits from cooperation in this industry.
You will unite with me in prononncing this
wise action and only express wonder that it
was not adopted sooner.
Now let us return to Dakota and the val
ley Of the Missouri. We have mentioned
peppermint as q product eminently fitted
for this soil and likely to prove profitable,
when a proper condition Of surrounding
circumstances easily reached by an intelli-
gent community, such as we find here, shall
have been inaugurated. We believe this,
and also that other products may be intro
dnced here TO advantage. 1t is not a good
thing ito have ones eggs all in one basket
This soil is eminently we'll adapted to the
production of broom corn-not to be ship.
ped to q distant market in bales, but for
manufacture here, afording labor to work.
ing men during the cold of winter. We
only mention this subject, knowing that you
comprehend the Importance Of it, and leave
you to think it out at your leisure. We on
ly add that had you a community of Shak.
ers here, they would supply the markets Of
Dakota with good brooms before the lapse
Of many moons, grown and manufactured
in Dakota. We recommend the cultivators
of this remarkable area of intervals known
as the Missouri river bottoms, richer il
vegetable mold than valleys of the Nile, OF
Ganges. to "have an eye OUT for crops
or productions adapted to this soil. W.
know of no similar expanse giving like
promise of a rich return for labor, when
the Fright product is hit upon.
But we do not design this to be a Local
paper, but to adapt it to all our broad land
and only to discuss the growing Of such
productions as Dakota is unusually we'll
adapted for, rather than recommend new
ones. Grass is q native product. Through
grass we produce milk, butter and cheese
flesh, wool and horses. Let us give our at.
tention mainly to that article in the pro.
duction of which we shall meet less general
competition-miik and Its merchandise, but
ter and cheese.
The eye traverses the map of the United
States in vain for a state or territory by ma.
ture endowed with greater natural advan-
tages for dairy production than Dakota.
The line of successful butter and cheese
production passes but a little south of Da.
kota. The cows of Texas may produce
flesh but not milk-the grass Of Texas is
lone idea grass" 1t is good for flesh and
that is all. If tue ows produced milk the
climate is unfavorable to its manufacture
into either butter or cheese. We trace
our fn9erlslong our meridian from Texas
north through Kansas and into Nebraska
before we enter the dairy zone proper. Da-
kota is in the dairy zone, she is also in the
flesh producing zone. Look at the market
reports and you see that Texas cattle direct,
sell for less than half the proceeds Of
cattle produced where there is more winter.
But we leave the consideration of the
questions involving flesh production and
care and keep OF cows, with the profitable
production ofmilk to the text books upon
those subjects. Volumes have been writ
ten by Arnold Willard and others upon
these subjects which every farmer should be
conversant with.
Having claimed that Dakota is within the
dairy zone we now proceed to discuss q
question involving immense advantages to
Dakota farmers.
BUTTER AND CHEESE FACTORIES.
The butter and cheese factory, honestly
irtellipentlv and rersistently supported is