St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-07
An Expert Gives Very Great
Encouragement to New
CreamerieS.
bairying Has Enriched Large
Districts Made Poor by
Wheat Growing.
Various Useful and Pertinent
Thoughts for the Farm
erS' Wives.
How a Boy Can Make Way
With Millions Of the
Chinch Bug.

E. Bach was formerly a commits
sion merchant in Minneapolis, and had
occasion to acquire thorough familiar
Ity with the dairy interests in the great
districts of the Northwest. He is now
farmer in EdmundS county. OAK. Inc
Ipswich Tribune lately interviewed him
on dairy matters, with special reference
to the new creamery at Ipswich. HIS
views and statements will be found IN
teresting to all farmers, and especially
to those in the range OF the new cream
cries springing up so numerously. lie
says:
~ put in the first cheese factory in
Kewaunee county, Wis, and we ran
two for number of years, and gained
considerable experience. l Will COM
mence at the bottom-with the farmers
without whose support and co-opera-
ton the enterprise cannot succeed.
With plenty of cows and good manage
ment it should succeed here, but both
the management and the farmers Will
have to be conservative and not eX-
pect too much. Farmers who have
had no experience In DAIRY
ing, are liable to over-estimate the
profits, both of the factory and the re-
-sult from their cows. and having thus
set their expectations too hlgh, tney are
apt to be disappointed, and drop out.
should give it as the result OF my eXpe-
rience that a cow here. with proper
management" would yield i'll cream,
her cream, her calf, and the pork raised
from the milk, from $50 to S35 per year.
Against this there is the money invested
I'm the COW, her care and feed. would
say, and from experience. that would
not want to invest great amounts OF
money in a herd of COWS and hire all
the labor necessary to milk and care for
them, but to the farmer who has raised
a lot of cows, and has the work of milk
ing. etc, done by his own family or
steady needed help, the proceeds from
the cows is nearly clear gain, where
land is as cheap as here. l know OF
cows that average
FROM $50 TO S75 A SUMMER,
and have do doubt that in few years II
the dairy business maintains Itself
there will be many of our first-class pro-
rressive farmers whose cows will bear
the above figures. Farmers find III
dairyIng = steady income. Hail, not
winds, droughts, etc, while they curtall
the receipts, do not do entirely away
/ have travelled considerably and can
say unqualfiedly that the most prosper
aus farming communities that L have
seen are where dairying is i'll the lead.
The sun shines on no more happy or
prosperous communities than there
are III Northern Illinois and
Southern Wisconsin. and | assert
bodily that dairying has done it. She
boygan county, Wisconsin. with very
poor soil in comparison to ours here has
raised her farm rs to aff1uence, is max
ing her county town, Sheboygan, one OF
The foremost manufacturing towns, and
I n.ir
done it. | ran commission business III
Minneapolis, and am familiar with
Southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa.
AS long as they raised wheat they were
poorer than poverty. and many Sher-
IFS deed certifieS to the truth of my as
sertion, and in sheer desperation they
look to dairying, and the result was, as
II all cases, prosperous farmers and
arge and prosperous towns. Look at
Mortified. Faribault, Owatonna. Cres-
oe, Mason City, Rochester, Austin, and
scores of smaller ones, all raised to
metropolitan proportions where poverty
reigned fifteen years ago-and
DONE BY DAIRYING.
l will make this assertion: Ii the
lairy interest is supported i'll this
,icinity, every foot of land will double
n value in five years, and that alone
will wipe out every cent of indebted
ness there Is in the district where dairy
ng is carried on, besides farmers will
lave herds of frst-class cattld around
them. Emulation will mark that
change, but remember, there is no royal
:oad to fortune; you have to creap be-
;ore you can walk; you have to COM
mence small, be satisfied with small re-
aurns on the start, and work up, and
my word for it you will be richly re-
Narded. The business men of Ipwich
lave put their hands in their pockets
md started the enterprise. There is no
me who ever expects cent of return
-herefrom, and they will be lichly re-
yarded if dairying is success. 1t will
oe bread caSt,0n the waters. Let our
armer friends now do their share, put
aheir shoulder to it and help it along,
md they will also be richly rewarded.
Here is large field for the farmers
alliance to work, and l say, gentlemen,
work if