Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-01-15

| market aI d ulSn price, Wliie Ho I'D
made the growth clear, and has nc
trenched upon the food supply of tn
dairy to gain this surplus profit. I
this end we must have as foundatio
good grass and plenty of it, good COW
(men and women, too), who will tax
pride in the work. and do it-and do i
too, as no others can 50 eleverly an
well, as that no one can surpass them
| and make of their work the pride ant
the glory of the State and command th
admiration of the world, one of tn
most desirable elements now needed il
the State. Then we must have gooC
cattIe-aDimals that shall compare il
both milk and butter yield with any il
the county; and this must be brougb
about in part by the introduction of i'm
proved stock, and in part by giving wha
we have, the best of food and attention
Too many of our farmers. who are dis
satisfied with the growing of wheat ane
small grain generally. are -indisposed t
spend money In good stock. or to change
their regular line of business in any
way if it involves the expenditure oi
money; but just there is where they art
making the great mistake of their lives
Wheat and corn are selling today rela-
lively very much lower than butter and
cheese. Wheat and corn involve an i'm
mense amount of labor-plowing har-
rowing. reaping, moving and marketing
whilst the pasture and the meadog "
involve but little of the labor of these
operations.
Many farmers are now afforded an op,
portunity of supplying the crea meries
of the State with cream. The creamer-
les are prepared to pay good price for
the cream-they assuming the respon-
sibiilty of putting it into good sbape.and
of finding market fer it at paying pri-
ces. Thus are the farmers and their
wives and families relieved of an i'm.
aeDse deal of labor, and afforded an op,
portunity of realizing vastly better
price for those goods at "a much reduced
cost of both time and money. Then the
question arises, does it pay to keep a
COW the whole year solely for the chance
of raising calf?
When land is cheap as in the far West,
in the herding counties, the answer is
in the affirmative, but where it is dear
say $50 per acre and upward, it must be
answered in the negative. Something
more than calf, however, good, must be
obtained; but how? For fifty years our
farmers wives have been endeavoring
to solve that problem, and for fifty years
they have failed. They have toiled and
drudged at the churn, and the price of
butter doled uI1t=tEr- Fraue at the cyua5rl
store. has not paid for the toll and
drudgery. Still. woman's toll proved
two things: that calf raised by hand is
as good at year old, as calf that has
followed its dam; and second, that the
runty pig, which would have died on
corn and water alone, swelled out to am.
pie proportions when fed with milk, and
therefore, the shrewd farmer sees that
milk must.be had for his pigs, that the
cow must in some way be the center of
his system, and that the pig and the calf
must be raised, and the bondage of his
wife to the churn must be broken.
Hence, the usual favor with which the
creamery has met in the State, wherev-
er they have been introduced. The
creamery takes away half the drudgery
of the farmers wife. What this drudg
cry has been would like for the women
of Wayne county to tell. But while it
removes the drudgery, it retains the in
come-the monthly income-notin IN store
accounts. but creamery checks, good as
gold; aud the best part of it is, that this
income is derived frcm that part of the
milk that the farmer can most readily
spare. 1t is fact not generally known
that for the formation of the bone and
muscle, skim milk, butter milk, and
whole milk, are practically equal. The
fat removed by the cream can be re-
placed at a trifing cost in the form of
oil meal or corn meal, and the farmer
has the satisfaction of eating bis cake
and keeping larger part of it too. This
monthly income is therefore practically
clear again-having thus received one
profit from his cow-a profit fully cow
ering the cost of her yearly keeping, and
interest on the investment he has 10 the
calf, a cheap and available package in
which to condense his grass and hay
straw and corn stalks, for shipment to
the markets of the world. And this is
another great advantage of the creamery
when that calf is driven to market, fully
ripe, he carries in his hide acres of
roughness, and wagon loads of corn
transplanted into juicy, well mar,
bled beef. which draws gold from the
pockets of Johnny Bull. But this is not
all-the surplus, after the calf has been
weaned, amends for the parsimCny OF
nature, which seems to have strangely
overlooked the marvellous appetite of a
litter of thrifty pigs, and helps to pre>
pare number of smaller packages into
which the farmer puts grass, artichokes,
corn from the crib, slops from the kitch.
en-, and even worms from the field. But
if the creamery blesses the farmers wife,
in delivering her from the bondage of
the churn, it confers aa equal blessing
on the farmer in prying him out of the
vats and compelling him to think, for he
must now needs study how to get all
the cream from the milk, and how to
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