Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-23
CREAM AND BUTTER

tina. it is too small u business, SC.
Let Il, see.
The creaineries being established
facts at Iiigginsviile and here what are
their prospects in this direction?
As to this one, Mr.. Jno. W. Waddell
will keep 80 cows; Mr.. Il. n. Sparks,
90; Mr. Jos. B. Shelby, Jr., so; DIR. j.
G. Russell, so. All these gentlemen
have nearly the number of cows now,
except DR.. Russell, who has 10 or Il
but will get the others. There are doz'
II more who have expressed a deter
mination to keep large numbers. Mr.
Shelby counts now, Oh and near the
Dover road alone, from Lexington to the
covered bridge over Tobo, about 500
cows. This Is a small fraction OF the
territory easily tributary to this cream
cry.
Now as to results. 1t is not a little
business. 1t is a great big, good, re-
munerative business. 1t will make
easier work on the farm; save the
women; save the soil; and give the
farmer cash twelve times Il year i'll
stead of once. 1t will enable him to 90
into the live stock business with such
profits assured as he never dreamed OF
before. Instead of realizing from Sl2
to 800 on each cow, as Inc docs now, he
will be enabled to make from $50 t.
IS per COW, and after a year or two,
when butter qualities are secured i'll
the cows, a great deal more. What
could pay better than this OIL the farm
Nothing. And when it is considered
that these profits are secured with YER!
much lighter work than grain raising
requires, and that instead Of impover-
isliing the land, as that does, it ell
riches it, the two systems of agricul-
lure cannot be compared.
OF course it Is not intended to revo-
lutiouize our whole farming system Al
once. There is plenty OF grass now
and there are enough of COWS, kept IL
a slip-shod but still profitable way, to
give the business a good start. But ii
is as certain as any proposition that
we know Of, that inside of five years
the creamerles III this section Of Mi>-
souri, wiW revolutionize the mode OF
farming.
If the farmers were to be put TO
great trouble and Inconvenience to sell
cream we should have many misgivings
as to success the first year, but the.
are not. At a nominal expense eacl'
farmer can supply himself with the
necessary 'outtit' of ems and cooling
trough. Then all he has TO do is to
have his COWS milkeii, the milk proper
ly strained, and the creamery wagon
comes to his door and takes away the
cream, the account being kept i'll the
farmers pass book and drivers book
alike. Once a month the farmer
drives to town aud draws his money.
This saves the good wife from the
labor of c%hu:ning, and its vicissitudc-
Of temperature, &c. When systema' .
ically attended to, at proper hours,
making of it IL Of the labors Of the
farm, and not merely an eddendum 10
be got out of the hands beside a days
work, it is 10 trouble to have milking
lone. And it will, we think, astonislI
many persons to see how rapidly oul
farmers will add COWS to their herds.
To show what may be done a prac'
tica! instance of what IL Lafayette
county farmer has done under adverse
circumstances, a long way from hi:
market, may be cited.
MI. Jonas Ferguson, who lives II
Suiabar township, made q contract OF
Feb. 21, 1888, to furnish Longs hote
in this city with butter, at 20 cents pei
pound for six months of the year, anc
ut % cents for the other six months
From the date mentioned till February
i. 1884, he furnished on the contrac
1928 pounds Of butter, and sold 81
pounds to another person, making
1861 pounds sold. This, on all ave-
,ge of 224 cents per pound, brough
him s3O6,2o. lie kept during the time
5 COWS. lie had left beside the butter
sold, the calves, the skim milk, TIL
butter milk, and the butter used i'll hi
family; and he did this with very LITTLE
interruption to his iarra work. If thu
calves, his own butter and the broker
milk IS added to his cash receipts 70
butter it will be seen that his COW
brought him immense interest Oh thei
cost and keep. But there is somethin;
else to add, and this is SO signitican
and important that We italicizse it
Mr.. Ferguson says, that if q
his cows had had the butte
qualities possessed by three of them, h.;
receipts for butter would hare bee;
dubbed. 1t will do to begin with til
COWS at hand. but it will pay, and pa
well, to improve them i'll the desires
direction as rapidly as possible.
This creamery question ia one wllic
effects all OF our farmers. Is Latay
cite county we'll adapted for dairying
If this is answered in the afirmativ
it settles the creamery question tavora
bly, for there is no doubt, and all wi
acknowledge it after a little exprr
fence, that tie creamery can mamufac
ture the bu ter cheaper and bette
than can the farmer; that it can pa
the farmer for his cream what he real
izes for his butter wv, save him tn
labor of butter making, and enable hin
I'd keep more cuws, and thus rend,
the business of some account to him.
This article is only particularly ar
piled TO theLexington creamery becaus
facts as to its future opportunities III
at hand. The argument will apply I
amy other locality in Lafayette count
that has u large enough territory accc
sibIe TO support a creamery.
Ex-Speaker Keifcr, when asked by
Committee of the hvu-e to give his lei
ti,nouy III reference to the charges
made against General D,ynton, plea,
, . | Tor delay aud prevailed. Con>iie
, ing the gravity and dosrnntism OF II
charges he made against Gen Boynto
it seems u little strange that Mr.. k,i