The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-12-22
ssThe Golden Rule Of Agriculture.

MIR. EDITOR: Allow me TO say to those
who doubt the practicability of the effort
to establish a creamery in cur town that
the territory from which it is proposed
TO gather cream is an area equal 10 about
seven townships. If 500 cows are not
now kept the deficiency can be bought
from outside territory. Our cattle deal |
ers knowing the business anticipate no !
difficulty on this point Ii farmers have
not means at hand to buy with they had
better hire money for that purpose than
10 go in debt for teams ard machinery
necessary to wheat raising. | an in
formed that some in other places have
done this, and their receipts for cream
paid for the cows the first season. Of
course it is only by having good COWS
and the best of management that yields
such profits. Slip shod management inI
dairying fails in profit as certainly as in
other business. But failure is not neces-
sary, because we have magnificent
country for the production OF grass ard
the coarse grains. On nearly every quar-
ter section is more or less natural meadow
land, and by better drainage in many
places the area could be enlarged, and the
quality of hay improved. Between the
low and high lands is also large area Of
land better adapted for grass than grain,
and is known as the natural blue joint
lands. Last summer Mr.. Whitet:. near
this place, was making stack of timothy
hay. l inquired how he succeeded in
raising such hay. His reply was that lie
had land which had always failed him in
trying to raise gram. seeded it to timothy
grass, and the result was an extra large
yield and splendid quality of hay. That
our uplands are adapted to the growth of
coarse grains in great abundance, We
need not stop to prove. 1t is apparent
to ALL Heretofore, wheat raising has
absorbed our best lands. time and labor;
the coarser grains, considered secondary,
have been crowded out Of season in seed
ing and harvesting, often causing loss.
Had the capital and labor expended in
wheat raising in our county the past 10
years been devoted to the raising of cat
tie, sheep and hogs, and to barley. oats
and corn to feed them, who doubts but
that our farmers would now be far along
the high road of prosperity. La these
articles I advocate the creamery dairy
interest on account of the profit from the
sale of cream, and also for the value of
sweet milk (or nearly sweei) after the
cream is taken off. to feed calves and
pigs. This is no small item. Two years
ago this last summer raised on my farm
in this way IL calves; last spring sold
the steers for 500 apiece, and in the fall
the hcifers with their calves for s23 so
apiece. Had kept them year longer
and fattcned them for market probably
they would have brought from $40 to $50
apiece. Had they been half or three
quarter grade Durhams they would have
brought from $50 to $50 apiece.
Iaivocate the dairy interest as part
of system of mixed husbandry. We
may raise all the wheat we can (having
teams and machinery on hand) without
mourning extra expense and only to the
extent Of the best culture, including the
condition of land and time of seeding
and harvesting. Then other interests
would come to the front as equal to or Of
more importance.
Many of our people are mourning over