The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-02-09
Winter Dairying in Ohio.

Winter Dairying in Ohio.
There can be no doubt that Ohio is get
ting heterodox in regard to the dairy,
and the drift ID now settling i'll strong
toward the system of winter dairying.
The results of the last few years have
demonstrated that profitable dairying
cannot be carried on by supplying an
overstocked market. Future prosperity
must be the result of more uniform pro-
duction, and of supplying the market
with the best fresh made products. Flu
ture success does not so much hinge up
on keeping better cows, as a continuous
dairying to prevent the accumulation OF
stock, which, when thrown upon the
market, always breaks it down, thus
bringing double action upon the dairy
men, for, by making when goods are
lowest, owing to over-abundance, he
gets low prices, and the consequent &C.
cumulation of stock brings down prices
later on in the season. Prices in mid
winter are high, but the dairyman has
nothing to sell, and his expenses con-
tinue, for he is supporting his cows on
the most expensive food, with little or
no return.
Our dairymen are beginning to see
this; hence winter dairying is now quite
common, and very largely increased over
last year. The cream gathering system
is being quite rapidly introduced.
| Nearly fifty of these "all the year" fac
tories are IN operation, and several large
| cheese factories are working on the same
plan. Besides this, one will see on sew
| eral of the main railways the ten gallon
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| the dairy districts. Winter milk, even
| fifty miles out from our principal Ohio
cities, is gathered up by the thousands
| of cans every morning, on territory that
three years ago never once thought win
ter dairying possible. The railways
| should have some credit for this change,
| as they made cheap freights for milk.
| The milk is not sent by express, or as
| freight, but the sender buys an "extrs
| baggage check, for passage on passen
ger trains, which costs about one cent
per gallon. This ticket is given to the
conductor who punches it as so much
fare. The city dealer meets the train
and does his own drayage, SO that the
cost of transportation is reduced to q
minimum. - Correspondence Country
Gentlemen.
A New Requirement in Modern Farming
A good farmer always needed skill,
but in the changed conditions of mod
ern farming a different kind of skill is
needed from that required by our faith.
ers and grandfathers. This is more
largely the case west than east, but true
in both. Formerly it was mostly man.
uaI skill in the use of simple nipple
ments, such as the sickle, the scythe and
the common walking pillow. Now the
| farmer needs TO know how to adjust,
run and care for machinery. Machines
properly handled call for little manual
expertness to run them. But to man.
age the present implements requires a
| degree of mechanical skill that large
proportion of our farmers do not pos
sess. To comprehend the full extent OF
this change, compare the modern thresh
ing-machine with the old-fashioned fail,
or the binding harvester with the
old sickle. or its successor, the grain
cradle. Every careful observer must
recognize the fact that the lack of skill
in using and caring for his machinery if
one of the most potent sources of loss tc
| the farmer.
We have known one man to use 6