Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-05-07
THE NEW cREAMERIES
PROTECTED.

We trust none of our farmer readers will
fail to read carefully the report we publish
this morning Of the creamery meeting
at WaynesbOro. 1t was a remarkable
meeting in this; that as an assembly OF
representative farmers for business it has,
not been equaled in the county for twenty
years, and probably not before that. The
public interest among the farmers of Au-
gusta in new idea has never been more
emphatically evidenced than at that assem-
bly,. nor has discussion ever been more
practical in bringing out the lnfor-
nation which is necessary as basis OF
calculation. What our farmers need to
secure their cooperation in any enter
prise, is clear demonstration that profit
is the result, and it will be seeL from the
report that the ''facts and figures" given by
those who spoke from personal experience
amounted to demonstration. The labori-
GUS part Of dairying always been COM
mitted to the female members of the fam
lily. Perhaps this i, to he explained by rea-
son that the product heretofore has never
risen to the sufficient Importance in quaint
ty. to give it business charact eristic. Th.,
surplus over home consumption represent
Ing the amount sold, api this small sur
plus was conceded to the wife as toe fund
for purchasing the family supplies and oc
casionally INDUCING herself in an mex
pensive luxury without calling upon the
master o furnish the funds.
If any system can be invented to relieve
the care an labor of the housewife, it is
the duty OF the farmer to relieve her, and
if profit accompanies the relief. appeal is
made to a Less commendable motive. It
seems to pretty fairly established that
the comp rison of average prices paid in
Staunton for the year-which only reach
Is cents. wit the average paid by the
creamery of 2Sa cents, leaves profit of 49,
cents as an average over and above what
has been pad in the past. The cow, like
interest. works on Sunday as we'll as week
day, and the steady accumulation as the
result of that IL Dor means prosperity.
We have, in another column, referred to
the advantages of ensilage as given by q
practical farmer, whose uniform success
entities bis opinions to value. If the adop-
I tion of this system of winter feeding aug
| ments the milk product, at cost even
less than that OF summer-and the winter
price of butter, corresponding with milk.
is always highly combining the grass
product of summer and the ensilage pro-
duct of winter, the most profitable results
are to be reached, and the creamery af-
fords an opportunity of income such as no
other enterprise offers the farmer. The
only drawback to larger foreign demand
is found in the production of imitation
butter, but bill has already been intro
| duced in Congress to tax it 10 cents per
pound and put its sale under the Internal
Revenue Bureaus bill that, backed by that
portion of our population which pays rs
per cent. of the taxes of the government.
will unquestionably be passed, and the
| dairy interests of America be protect
| ed. 1t the population of the United States
| increases three times as fast as the mich
COWS, with foreign demand always ready
| to take your dairy product. there is no
danger of production. It is encour-
aging to see our farmers manifest interest
in such enterprises-ev sources of
wealth within our reach should be deye.
Hoped If we would occupy the place we
should in this sisterhood of States. Here
we have an enterprise which requires no
skill beyond that which we have. All
that is necessary is to divide the labor, so
as to produce the best product at the least
cost, and, of course, at the greatest profit.
| Let the factory turn out it's best product
OF high grade, furnish the milk from
your tar@s Is q Dr. e from the Gov: re-
lieve your wives from this taxing care and
onerous labor, and then they will profit by
the arrangement as well as yourselves.