The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24


is necessary is to learn 10 meet them. On the
other hand, it has its advantages, 1t certainly
takes much less lafos aud its results are far more
satisfactory than the general farm system This
feature of my farm affords me much more pleasure
than all the o.hels combined
For its maintenance, l put my land in clover
ana grasses. These crops cost but little labor
and they bring me abundant Yields They preserve
ahd enrich my SOL, Not so with cotton II costs an
immense outlay for work. My land is
damaged by rains and it is denuded
| OF VEGETABLE matter and year after year
Is sioru OF its strength and its richness. Ater all
tle expense OF its cultivation, | must employ men
10 sSather it, for their labor must lay them. My
Clover send my cows to gather, and they pay me
III quantities of rich milk and beautiful butter"
But don't you find il Objectionable because of its
necessary regularity? You must have your cows
attended to, fed and MIXED, twice each day, sun
days not excepted"
Yes, that is true, but l have myself fed three
| times Gay. l have all my horses and mules fed
! three timesa day. Why not feed COWS, or rather,
why not exchange some horses for cows and feed
twice day instead of three times, especially so If
the COWS pay their board and horses do not. No,
SIR, gust study TO meet difficulties; get matters con-
| Nehenty arranged, remove all causes for worry,
then troubles will become pastimes and things that
before annoyed Will bring pleasure and entertain
meni. J can understand the trouble of chasing
scrub COW for quarter of an hour over barn yard
! snoe deep in mud and manure TO induce her to
So can also appreciate The pleasure of looking
ut beautiful, gentle cow as she stands in clean
| comfortable stall taking her welprcpared ratlons
and giving, in return, and abundant yield of rich
| milk. Just tiX for it and it will not he much
| trouble"
| ''Do you keep your cows stabled?'
Il do stnight during the winter and at ali times
| when the weather is stormy. | milk them in their
| stalls winter and summer This makes thl work
| much easier. Ny cows all know their names and
their stalls. My men have only to step TO the barn
door and call them. They take their places at once
and are securely fastened and MIXED 1t is but the
work Off few minutes. have no calves around at
milking time My calves are reared on skinned
milk. Oh, no. it is not much trouble like IT,"
'You intimaed moment ago that your cows
| paid you good large per cent, About how much,
| please"
Like ;7eTy other business it varies in tho aggre
gate and in individual eases. Some COWS will pay
me more than Others. They always pay me more
| III summer than in winter. In summer they care
for themselves almost entirely. In winter they dc.
mand more attention. and food that is more eXpen-
| siVe, because must handle it, They frequently
| pay me 100 per cent You will understand that
give them good rich rations, and they make for me
an abundance of the very best manure. This care
fer We'll and return it to them in the shape of good
| clover, and grass and hay Besides, each COW gives
me cali When heifer, 1t is an improvement on
herself, as try 50 to breed that each generation
Shall be better than the one that preceded have
| received for thCm
| "Do you have much income from sale of stock?"
"Well, yes, this is part of the business. My grade
| bull calves sell to the butcher My grade heilcrs
after being served, generally sell for good price
| Thoroughbred bulls do not command good price
now, though it pays have never sold thorough
| bred heiier calf for less than $50. The income
| from some individual cows when all these sources
are considered, is astonishing"
| (which do you like better GRADES or thorough
| bredseh
"Thoroughbfeds of course when sale of stock is
considered. l have grades that excel my thor
oughbrcds as dairy cows. l have been grading
them about twelve years"
do you receive any other benefits directly from
| your dairy in addition to those already men
toned"
~ am getting better milk and butter for my
| family than before | began my dairy
and am raising my hogs much
more cheaply. My Berkshires not quite
thirteen months old, this season averaged me three
| hundred and five pounds. They were fed butter
| milk and meal, and some wheat bran. From two
! sows sold only about one-thrd of tho riga they
brought me this year, for seventy-fve dollars This
| I could not have done without my milk"
| Are the arrangements and conVeniences for a
| dairy necessarily eXpensive2'
| mo at all They can be made so if one desires
| Mine are very plain. began the business to deter.
mine its profit to an average farmer. 1T was of
course under this view, lie cs'ary to put it upon
| cheap scale as possible. This did,
| ''You think then any average farmer can do as
! well as you have done in this busines?'
Il see no reason in the world why man, who
loves his cows, and is willing
| to attend TO them regularly should
! not make money with n dairy on his farm
! Indeed think great deal Of money ought to be
made OH every farm in Georgia. in the dairy. Every
! farmer has his cows Why not have good ones and
attend to them? is there anything that gives such
| quick as we'll abundant returns! Cows pay
| dividends twice a day. Farm crops only once in
| twelve months, and sometimes not at oil. would
be glad 10 see neat, comfortable little dairy on
! every farm in the state. Its products will greatly
| help out the food supply of the family, ard thus
| win turn many n bright penny during the year
! Why should others come in to take away The
| money that is legitmately our? The
farmers in Georgia would be amazed to
know Of the thousands of dollars that 20 from this
state into OIL eS for this very product about which
| we are speaking. Maine bleak and barren as tits
sells in Georgia thousands OF pounds of butter at a
profit, while our farmers are wearing their lives
| away under mortgages made by cotton See the
difference 10000 cows on the farms in Maine pro-
d1ce annually, about fifteen million pounds OF but
ter. 00C0 cows on the farms in Georgia make
al out seven million pounds Of butter All the COWS
on the farms in Maine average for their owners
about thirty dollars. The COWS In Georgia bring
their owners about three dollars.
probably our people don't understand the bust
learning the business Of the dairy. Is there much
to be lealned?'
There quite a good deal for me
when began thought | knew good butter when
tasted it. / found / mistaken. thought
knew how to make it, / soon learned, when got
upon the market that knew nothing about it,
Some time, when am more at leisure than nov
will tell you how 10 make good butter if you would
like to know
n fs nnt-Hnve Xnu Cean
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topics. DIR. Jones's farm inquiry box alone is
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