The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-18
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How Creameries Beneit Farmers,
Editor Spirit OF the Farm.


How cFeameTies Benefit Farmers,
Editor Spirit of the Farm.
You have heard from time to
time of the working and progress of
the Stone River Creamery as q
stock company, and as an enter
prise within itself, hut | have NOT
as yet seen line concerning the
benefit or profit il is TO the farmers
who furnish the milk.
AS the writer used all the infu-
ence and persuasion that he could
in getting our people 10 engage in g..
the dairy business, telling them of
the almost incalculable benefit it
would prove to be TO the cotton
stricken fields Of this section, I now
wish to give some facts taken from
actual experience, having com
meneed To furnish milk the first day
the creamery started, continuing
until now under very unfavor-
able circumstances. Mark Won
we commenced the very first Of the
severest winter we have had for
years, with a mixed lot Of COWS. a
scant supply of food, with high
prices for what we were compelled
to buy; wheat bran selling most of
the time for 81 per hundred pounds,
corn from 80 cents TO 90 cents per
bushels, and cotton seed from 20
cents to 20 cents per bushel. The
writer bought almost all tue feed
for his COWS TO eat at above prices,
employed a man at 1925 per
month and board TO milk, feed the
cows, deliver the milk keep the cow
house in order, and to haul ont the
manure. With ten COWS. FIVE of
them shippers, with calves a year
old, up to the first of May there
was only profit of $50 in cash.
The calves and manure, which cen
be safely estimated at 81 per
month for each COW, or SO per cow
for six months, making $50 more
total net profit on ten COWS for six
months $I20. On the hrst Of Nav
the expense of feeding was over,
and the COWS We're averaging 100
pounds of milk per day, at Ii cents
per pound, not including Sunday.
This will give $444.6O for the next
six months-putting the calves,
and manure and Sundays milk as
an offset against expenses. Now
you see, we have $5S0.G0 for one
year from ten cows, or $jS.O6 per
COW. Can any one point to a bust
ness on the farm with the same
amount of capital and labor en-
ployed that will beat this? taking
into consideration that in ten
years dairying our tired fields will
be entirely restored If so, please
come out and give US the modus OPP
erandi, and you will prove yourself
a public benefactor.
A good many fears have been
entertained that the creamery was
not a permanency, and if so, that
the price of milk would be reduced
during the summer TO a point that
would take the profits of the
farmers.
We can safely depend upon get
ting every cent for The milk the
factory can afford to pay, as we all
well know that 1t is to the interest
Of manu- racturing company to en-
courage the producers of raw mate
rial whom they are dependent for IL
supply.
There can be no fear of unneces-
sary or unjust reduction in the
price of milk until the factory gets
enough to employ it's full capacity,
and by that time other creameries
will be started that will draw from
this one or that one that may not
be disposed to act fairly and upon
the principles of mutual benefit.
There is no reason TO doubt the
permanency of the creamery sys.
TEN. II is IN interest that so in
wolves our welfare that we can no
longer overlook or discard it. The
manufacture Of butter or cheese has
become as necessary as the manu-
tacture of cotton to meet the do
mands of the multiplying thou.
sands of non-producers. There is
no mushroom fortune in any de.
partment of the business, but we
think it the starting point of a wave
of prosperity to our country that
really seems a godsend to our peo-
pie who find themselves stranded,
as it were, upon red clay banks.
We have, Mr.. Editor, as you
know, one of the finest countries in
the world, and it is susceptible Of
the highest state of production, on
ly needs TO be farmed upon the
Holland system for ten years TO
make it a perfect paradise on earth.
l sometimes say to my friends
that this generation may get along
very well on the skimming system
of farming, but woe be unto the
next l tell them that we are null
tiplying so rapidly that our chill
dren cannot hope to inherit more
than fifteen acres of land each, and
unless we go to work and make it
rich they will surely starve.
Hoping to hear from others Of
more experience through your col
umns, am, w. 4. II.
Murfreesboro, May Is, '85.
--SSs-