The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-06

These figures are very significant.
Flax is very exhaustive crop. 1t takes
fertility out of land, and yields nothing
back. It may be valuable crop with
which to subdue new or rough land, but
it is not to be one of the staple products
of the intelligent money-making farmer.
Corn and clover, oats, grass and roots
are some of the crops that are going to
abide.
Right methods viii enable the farmer
to produce abundant crops of the above
mentioned kinds of feed and convert
them in the most successful manner in
to butter and beef, wool and mutton,
and pork and horses.
The American farmer may not be
able to produce wheat so that it can be
placed in European markets to advan-
tage, but in the articles of butter and
cheese and beef he can and does carry
on a successful competition.
BUTTER AND CHEESE.
On butter alone we sent abroad during
1888, 22,25O, 900 lbs, valued at 81, 900 900.
Our cheese exports brought us $11 $780,
1000. During the past year we shipped
to foreign countries $2,700,000 worth OF
dairy products more than we did in
1882 We frequently hear the cry,
The butter market is going to be so over
stocked that good prices cannot be sus-
tanned" Let us see if the dairy business
is in danger of being over-done very
soon. In 1850 there were in the United
States $4,000 COWS to 100000 of in
lhabitants, or one COW to every 81 per-
fsons. In 1880 our COWS had just about
doubled, but our population had more
than doubled, SO that relatively we had
not as many COWS in proportion to peo-
| pie as we had thirty years ago. Then
we had one COW to every 81 persons,
now we have one COW to every four per
sons. People are better able to afford
butter now than they were thirty years
ago. As they become better able to buy
Ithey demand a better article. The
farmer who can supply this demand fol
gilt-edged butter is bound to find a
ready market and good prices.
NEED OF, BETTER DAIRY STOCK.
! But in order to do this there must be
better dairy stock and more judiciou;
feeding, cleanliness and care in every
thing. Poor COWS must be weeded out
and only good proft-yielding COWS re
tanned. Weigh your milk, test your
cream. Start on 200 lbs. of butter {
year from each COW, but don't think o
being satisfied till every COW in the hero
| is brought up to average 300lbs. There
| is profit and pleasure in such dairying
and it is perfectly reasonable to hope fol
when we have such foundations to buil(
with as Mercedes and Mary Ann of st
Lamberts, and Jerseys, Guernseys O.
Hblsteins, either pure-bred or grades, ar
Il capable of making on an average 30
Elbs. of butter in a year.
lc The thrifty farmer will also seek t,
1produce a surplus of horses. The de
mand is constant for good horses. TIL
| demand for both draft horses and cal
Iriage horses exceeds the supply all tn
time. A pair Of draft horses from t,
6 years old will bring from $400 to $50
in any of our large cities, while a Cal
Iriage team, we'll matched, large, stylish
land speedy, will bring from $500 to ST.
1000. The market for good horses
lust as reliable as it is for butter or bee
! If steer can be put into market at
! years old for $75, surely colt can b
lready to sell at 4 years old for 5000 an
at very much greater profit.
4 BRAINS AS WELL AS Drawn.
Il In these few remarks concerning pun
i pose and method in farming, I hay
il only limited at a bread field that is ope
1 before you all. The time has com,
in these older settled sections, wher
land is increasing in value, that purpos
and method must prevail or failure i
inevitable. A bystander once asked tn
painter Opie, with what do you mi
your paints? p "With brains, SIR" wa
the prompt but significant reply. Goo
farming no less than fine paint
Unjust be mixed with the same essentis
| irgredient-brains.
Il Woodwork, Wis, May "a.