The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-05-29

half days. labor, with necessary mule labor
added, produced on eleven acres eight ana
one half bales of cotton, which, including
the seed, sold for Al5.S6 gross, which wonlo
give each days labor, together with the
mule, 81 cents, which, after deducting ex-
pense of living for laborer and mule, would
leave but a small margin, II any, and that
too, without any allowance for rent OF lahd.
Here Is a good average crop and average
price. You can figure the profits and deter
mine on which side OF the ledger you would
put 1t and how long 1t will take a laboring
man raising cotton to accumulate fortune;
The same authority shows that 49l dayS
labor, with mule added, produced 1000
bushels of corn, which, together with the
fodder, sold for LOO gross, which would
give for each days labor, including team
stock and dairy took l,06isl days labor
with team and that the gross sales were
S6,lS7.O3, which. gives 1915 for each
figures speak for themselves and show very
readily why cotton Is abandoned and twenty
new creamerles started this year in Missis.
sippL The examination OF the reports OF
several CO. cooperative creameries In the North
show that 1t costs per pound to make butter
from four and half to five and half cents
and the price received by the creamery
ranges from twenty to thirty five CENTS
which gives upon 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 q
pound of butter.
That the De Laval process Is quite gener-
ally used This process Is 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 pGohts of an average COW are far
from $50 to $50 and that extra good butter
cows are much greater, This shows that tho
profit on one COW is,more than the gross price
of one bale of cotton. Is 1t nos
less and much easier work to take care OF
and milk one COW than 1t Is to raise
you know the profits from the COW are
greater than the gross sale Of the bale of cot
ton? There are at least dozen excellent
places in Pulaski County alone for good
creamery, any one of which properly con-
Quoted would pay better than any creamery
in the Western States. A few years ago there
was scarcely any grass upon our upla nd
that would stand our dry summer, but God
moves in mysterious way his wonders to
perform" Seeing so many anQconda mort
cages in the country and no chance for the
cotton raiser to reduce, much less pay them
nearly the whole upland country
source that no man knoweth, with a rich
growth of clover, that we call Japan clover,
that stays green through our worst droughts
and during the whole summer furnishes ex-
cellent pasture for stock. This, taken to-
gether with Bermuda grass that every one
can have in abundance IL they will plant 1t,
makes as fine summer pasture and as good
grass for making butter MS you ca n get anYA
where. The great profit Is not now in sum
mer but in n winter dairy. Our climate Is so
mild that orchard grass, blue grass and nearly
all winter, and rs to winter feed, millet,
Johnson grass, red clover, alfalfa, stock
peas, cut for hay, sorghum and milo maize
can be grown in the greatest abundance and
all make splendid feed for cattle. Roots
grown for cattle, such as sweet potatoes,
carrots parsnips, beets and mangold wurzel
can be grown here as we'll as any place in
the United States. This Is the home of stock
peas and cotton. seed meal-two of the
greatest enrichers of milk that can be fed.
The agricultural college OF Mississippi
have established that sios do as well in the
| South as in the North or West. All these
| things. together with all kinds of grains nec-
essary for stock can be grown here upon
| every dairy farm. So far as feed is con-
| cerned, no place can surpass US Our cli-
mate is so mild that cows are comfortable
| 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 bu ter In the win
| ter than in the summer Winter butter
| properly made and sold fresh, brings from
twenty to fifty per cent, more than summer
! butter.
| A creamery here ould not only have the
| advantage of climate in the winter over one
In the North, but the advantage of price. A
careful inquiry from our leading retail gro
cerymen shows that the butter trade runs
! from ore-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 33S to axe per pound.
| These purchases as a rule came through
middle men, who must have good
profits, and are shipped q long dis
lance at no very low tariff. So it Is
easy to see that we have a home mar
ket with good prices for much more than
! can be made and that the profits of the mid
dlemen and of transportation could nearly
all be added to what Northern creameries
get for their butter. II creamerles 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
ried on as winter creameries and dalrles in
Arkansas Let us see that these creameries
and diaries are started, then we can have
good, pure butter and quit the calf ana
| 'alf" furnished us now by the association
and have good pure cream for our straw
| berries.