The Brookhaven leader., 1886-05-27

$6.lS7.os, which gives 1913 for each
days labor including team. These
figures speak for themselves and show very
readily why cotton 10 abandoned andtwenty
new creameIies started this year in Missis.
sippi. The examination of the reports OF
several CO operative creameries in the North
show that II costs per pound to make butter
from four and n half to five and half cents,
and the price received by the creamery
ranges from twenty TO thirty five cents,
which gives uDon an average to the patron
from twenty three to twenty five cents per
pound for the butter made from his milk
without any trouble on his part except milk.
ing his cows.
That on an average twenty one pounds OF
milk, a little over two gallons, makes
pound of butter.
That the De Laval process is quite gener.
ally used This process is a comparatively
new invention, and consists in machine
called the separator, which takes new milk
and separates the cream from the milk by
centrifugal force, without waiting for the
cream to rise, under the old process Of set
ting the milk for that purpose, This new
process is said to increase the amount and
IMPROVES the quality of the butter and
greatly lessons the work and expense Of
manufacture.
That the profits of an average COW are far
from $50 to $55 and that extra good butter
COW. are much greater. This shows that the
profit on one COW Is more than the gross price
OF one bale OF cotton. i II not
less and much easier work to take care OF
and milk one COW than 1t l. to raise
one bale OF cotton, and especia ly 80 wnen
you know the profits from the COW are
Greater than the gross sale ofthe bale of cot
tom There are at least Il dozen excellent
places in Pulaski County alone for good
creamery, any one of which properly con q
Quoted would pay better than any creamery
| In tneN stern states A few years ago there
was scarcely any grass upon our upland
that would stand our dry summer, but GOD
moves in mysi erious way his wonders to
perform" Seeing so many anaconda. mort
cages in the country and no chance for the
cotton raiser to reduce, much less pay them
nearly, the whole upland country
has been covered from some
source that no man knoweth, with n rich
growth of clover, that we call japan clover,
that stavs green through our worst drought5
and during the whole summer furnishes cX-
cellent pasture for stock. This, taken to-
gether with Bermuda grass that every one
can have in abundance il they Will plant II,
makes as line summer pasture and as good
grass for making butter rs you con get any.
where, The great profit is not now i'll II sum
mer but In winter dairy. Our climate is so
mild that orchard grass, blue grass and nearly
all winter, and IL TO winter feed, millet,
Johnson grass, red clover, alfalfa, stock
peas, cut for hay, sorghum and milo maize
can he grown In the greatest abundance and
all make splendid feed for cattle. Roots
grown for cattle, such as sweet potatoes,
carrots, parsnips, beets and mangdld wurzcl
can be grown here rs we'll as any place in
| the United states. This is the home OF stock
peas and cotton seed meal-twO of the
greatest nnrichars OF milk that can he fed
The agricultural college of Mississippi
have established that silos do as well in the
South as in the North or West. All these
things. together with all kinds of grains nee
essarY for stock can be grown here upon
every dairy farm SO far as feed is con-
cerned, no place can surpass Our eli
mate is so mild that COWS are comfort able
most all the time in winter, even out OF
doors, and will give much more milk than
when they have to endure very cold weather.
In fact cows well cared for here will give
more milk and make more bn ter in the win
ter than In tho summer. Winter butter
properly made and sold fresh, brings from
twenty to fifty per cent more than summer
butter.
4 creamery here would net only have the
advantage of climate in the winter over one
In the North, but the advantage of price. \
careful inquiry from our leading retail gro-
cerXmen shows that the but er trade runs
from one twentieth to one third of their en-
tire trade
The prices paid for creamery butter in
1885 6, with freight added, from November to
April, runs from 3}a to 4alac per pound
These purchases as a rule came throu IN
middle men, who must have good
lance ut nc very low tariff. so it is
easy to see that we have home mar
ket wit good prices for much more than
can he made and that the profits OF the mid
dlemen and OF transportation could nearly
all be added to what Northern crcameTies
ret for their butter. If creameries in the
winter pay in the Northern States, would
not they pay still better here? Is there any
industry that would pay so well and is so
much needed and so easily started and car
rled on as winter creameries and diaries In
Arkansas Let us see that these creameries
and dairies are started, then we can have
good. pure butter and quit the "'alf and
and have good, pure cream for our straw.
berries.