The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-08-24
Modern Dairy Farming.

According to the Hon. Hiram
Smith, of Wisconsin, modern dairy
farming starts out with keeping one
| COW on four acres, and this should he
the password to every dairy lodge
lone COW to four acres - and this
should he rapidly reduced until the
undonbted possibility is reached of
keeping one to every acre. One of
the principles Of modern dairy farm
ing is To have our cows give the most
milk when dairy goods are at the
highest price, which is invariably in
winter. 1t has been repeatedly de.
monStrated that a good herd of COWS
coming into milk in September, De-
tOber and November, will. in the
average, give 800 to 6. 900 pounds of
milk annually. This milk is worth.
TO sell at factory, or to manufacture
into butter or cheese, $1.30 per 100
pounds, or $3.50 as the average for
each COW. In other words, DAIRY
farming with one COW to eight acres
on 100 acres produces 81 100 modern
| dairy farming with one cow to four
acres produces $1,000, an increase of
III 800 Ivy an outlay Tor iced and
help, Il net profit of SODA sum sui.
licicnL to raise the mice of land from
| $50 to 500 per acre. Il fundamental
condition OF successful farming is
large crops of corn, not less than two
acres of fodder and four acres of field
| corn Tor every ten COWS, or il total
al twtnty-fOur acres for forty cows.
III the manure of the fam should
lie evenly placed on these twenty four
acres during the winter, aud the land
lilowed previous to the tenth of May,
and thoroughly narrowed, the corn
planted Immediately thereafter with
il horse drill, the rows three and one.
half feet apart, and the kernels from
seven to nine inches apart, and cul-
| tivated well before the corn comes
up with fine tooth harrow. Ere.
Quently thereafter cultivate until the
tenth of July, ut which time, if work
has been honestly done, it will he
flee from weeds with never hoe i'm
the field, and it is almost certain to
produce fifty bushels per acre OF
shelled corr and thirty tons of fod.
der. 1t takes less labor to raise
| twenty-fOur acres of corn rs described
above, than to raise half that amount
planted in hills and the cultivation
/ deferred until you can see the rows.
TIE Exposition ut Louisville,
which was so auspiciOusly opened
two weekt ago. is meeting with fair
success, and promises to result in
much good TO Kentucky and the South.
The great exposition ut Atlanta had
the effect of bringing before North.
crn capitalists IN idea of the re.
sources OF the South, and induced the
investment of Il great amount of
capital i'm Georgia manufactures. The
Louisville exposition will probably
accomplish much in the same direc.
ti"n. The South has grand resources,
but for many years has been so EN-.
Uttered towards Northern men, that
there were but slight inducements for
them to make investments. But wis
dom has taught them different
course. They now invite northern
capital and Northern men, and the
infusion of Yankee blood in the
sluggish Southern veins is working
wonderful changes. At last they
are following the rough but pointed
advice of Congressman HOrr, who
told them to "raise more cotton and
corn, and less HI"
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