The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-06-11
FARM TOPICS.
The Advantages to Farmers of Selling
Cream-Value and Importance of Root
Crops.
The Profits of blackberry Cultivate on
Care of Pigs.
ADVANTAGES OF SELLING CREAM.

ADVANTAGES OF SELLING CREAM.
There are complaints in Iowa, Min
nesota, and some other states where
manufactures have been established for
making butter from the cream raised by
farmers at home that cows do not pay
as well as when the entire milk is dis
posed of ut the cheese factories or sent
to large towns for sale to families. II is
probably true that farmers do not re-
ceive as much money for the product of
a dairy cow when only the cream is
sold as when the entire milk is disposed
of. 1t does not follow, however, that
the cow is not quite as profitable to the
owner. He has the SKINNED milk ut
home, which he can use in raising
calves or in feeding to pigs and fowls,
and these in due time will bring in
money. Besides, he is saved the trouble
and expense of hauling all his milk to
the factory or railway station. When a
farmer is obliged to "catch an early
train" or to meet the requirements of
the managers of a cheese factory in re-
lation to the time for the delivery of
milk he must be up every morning
"bright and early" and must make his
trip, even over very bad roads, ''rain or
shine"
Parties who devote their farms and
cows exclusively to the production of
milk find the most profit in selling it rs
soon rs it is drawn and suitably cooled.
The number of exclusively milk-pro-
ducers. however. is comparatively small.
To engage in the business of producing
milk on an extensive scale requires con-
siderable capital. A large improved
farm is needed to furnish pasture, fod-
der, and grain for the cows. Large and
well-constructcd barns are required to
shelter them. A herd of fine cows must
be purchased and the supply kept up
from year to year, as the exclusive milk
producer raises no calves. A large
amount of capital is needed to engage
in a business of this kind, and this capt.
tai is not generally found among farm
ers living in the newly-settled states
and territories The business is well
suited to Il comparatively old and we'll
settled portion of country, where there
are many quite wealthy farmers. and
where persons to do milking can be
readily obtained. 1t is not generally
well suited to farmers who have their
places to improve, perhaps to pay for,
and who are DESTROYS of raising calves.
1t is generally more advantageous to
the farmer of small means to sell his
cream than the entire milk. 1t enables
him to raise calves, which will furnish
him cows that will take the place of
those that become old and steers that
can be converted into beef. 1t affords
him an opportunity to combine grain
production with stock-raising and the
sale of cream. If n small farmer can
keep ten good cows he can have the
milking done by members of his own
family, can derive money enough from
the sale of cream TO meet his current
expenses, can raise ten calves each year,
which will enable him to add to his
herd of mich cows and give him steers
to fattcn. He will. besides, have time
to raise grain and to devote considera-
bic time 10 gardening and fruit-growing
and improving his place. By making
arrangements with his neighbors, who
are pursuing similar course. he can
have hi, cream taken daily to the butter
factory for Il small sum. He can if he
desires, soon put himself in condition
to engage in the production of milk on
Il large scale. Chicago Times.