Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-26


one. The milk is kept from the air
aud stands IL hours before it il
drawn from the cream. He uses
revolving barrel.churn, driven by
calf operating tread-power The
calf does the churning while the
wife gets the breakfast. He churns
At TO degrees in the summer aud At
"a in the winter; washes when the
butter IL IN grsnules; salts one ounce
To the pound of butter; let's the but
ter stand one hour after sailing, then
packs in so pound tuos. He sells in
Chicago ut top market prices. He
SAID IL 10 just as easy TO raise =
horse that will sell for $3.50 as To
raise one that will only sell for t75,
aud just as easy to have cows earu
$50 year AZ to have them earn
ouly $40 or $50, and it is 4 great
dead more satisfactory. The man
who raises and uses sorub-stock has
made no advaace on the practice Of
titty years ago, and, if he keeps on,
will be far behind, for the rest of
the world is going ahead He WAS
asked at what season he had his
Noows fresh? AT all seasons--so that
ne can have All average yield OF
butter each week. lie WAS also
asked if he could produce butter at
10 cents per pouudP lie thought
he could, but when he had 10 he
would have II right to expect that
other things would be cheaper.
PRACTICAL SWINE uUsBANDRY.
n. Il. VanMttre gave his views on
pork production. He had read of an
lIinuIs farmer who believed raising
corn and hogs sure way To In
prove run down farm, and he could
say that he had improved the fertl
ity Of his own with hogs, corn aud
clover. HIS method is to turn the
hogs into the corn field. He thinks
this better than to husk the corn foi
early fall feeding, He would not
keep hogs over Is or 20 months old
except for breeding, aud turns elght
or ten head of hogs on each acre ol
clover for pasture. He tattens them
all before cold weather. Relative
to breeds, he prefers cross of Pol
aud China with the Berkshire, aud
is decidedly averse to having Jersey
Red blood in his herd. In 1885 h,
bought forty grade steers, two year
oids, weighing Al average OF ,O5'
pounds, 1T $40 head. He wiuteret
them on the hay from fifty acre.
and the corn from ten acres. La thu
spring they were turned on To forty
acres of pasture, aud on the 20th OF
October they were sold for So d
head, or the lot for t1,0S0. Tney
had cost 81 600. This gave $i5C
over first cc.t. That is what he g,t
for his labor aud the use of TO-
acres Of land. The same fall he
had 90 shoats which were fed spar
ingly from the corn grown on 25
acres Of land. In the spring they
were turned into a twelve-acre ield
Ga the LIST of September, after be
iug fed seven weeks on the cora
which grew on 28 acres, they were
sold for $1,000. The cost of tn,
shoats was 1920. Thus he had the
products Of slxty-fye acres produo-
ing $3.50 over the cost of the ani
mails, as against $3.50 of gain on the
beef--cattIe that had consumed the
products of 100 acres. The expert
meat was repeated the following
year with similar results, showing
to his entire satIsfactlng that for
him there is more profit IN hogs.
HOG farming involves the necessity,
almost, OF raising . large amount
uf corn. He would not advise a
man with a hilly farm to undertake
much corn growing, or hog raising