News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-01-01
Letter From Kansas.
MAzETTA, Jackson County, |
Kansas Dec % zoo {

MAZETTA, Jackson COunty,(
Kansas, Dee. D, 80.
TO THE News AND CITIZEN i wrote
letter for your very valuable paper
once before. As it escaped the waste
basket | will try once more | will
first tell about our Kansas weather
1t is at present land has been all the
time) as warm as it is in the month
of September. 1t was cold for three
DAYS about the first of December
The ground was frozen about one
and "a half inches deep, but only re
manned frOze for three days. 1t has
not showed any in this part of Kan
sas yet, and no prospect for any
A person can work in the open air in
his shirt sleeves and bare handed
and the farmers are doing their pillow.
ing, so they can get their crops in
early in the spring. Cattle are still
grazing on the prairie and are doing
well. Owing to the warm winter it
takes about forty per cent less feed
to do stock this winter as compared
with last winter. We have an abund-
ance of feed in this vicinity. Crops
are not as good as they were last
year. Last year corn made fifty
bushels an acre and was worth fifteen
cents; this year corn made about fif-
teen bushels an acre and is worth
forty-five cents per bushel, so the
farmer, comparatively speaking,
makes as much with a small crop as
with large one. But a large crop
makes the farmer feel better, even if
he has to give it away.
| believe | wrote in my first letter
about living on the edge of the Indian
reserve. Well our Indians have no
intention of making war or INDUCING
in "ghost dance" They are too
sensible to make any foolish out
break. Well Mr.. Editor | will close
my letter for fear of making it too
long; if this is found in your valuable
paper may write again.
Yours truly,
V. r. LUNGER.
P. S. Please find enclosed some
green grass and other things which |
picked on Dec. %, 1889.
Milk Tests.
WORD TO CREAMERY PATRONS.
1t has for some time been evident
that the present plan of buying or
rather paying for milk at the cream
cries is rapidly destroying the dairy
industry of this State. A man, for
instance, has been carefully breeding
a herd of butter COWS. He is making
one-third to One-half more butter
than some of his neighbOrs who have
taken no pains in breeding. A cream
cry is started and they both send
their milk. Each man receives a uni
form price per hundred pounds for
his milk. The result is that the care
full breeder finds his well bred COWS a
source Of loss, while the Indifferent
breeder reaps the benefit of his neigh
boris enterprise. Is it not evident to
every one that it is unjust to pay the
same price for 100 lbs. of milk which
will make 81 lbs. of butter, as is paid
for 100 lbs CT milk which will make
only 4 lbs. of butter? And it is the
good farmer that suffers every time.
In other words the present creamery
system Of Vermont puts Q premium
upon poor farming
The Onl y proper and just way is for
the creamery to test each mans milk
and pay for the milk-nOt according
to its weight-but according to the
of butter fat contained in
The milk. The difficulty has been to
procure an accurate and reliable test.
Many tests have been devised, but
here are serious objections to the
most of them. The only ones that
seem to be popular at present are the
Babcock and the Beimling. The
Ormer seems to be the most used in
other States, the latter is used at the
Vt. State Experiment Station, and
seems from the description to be the
best adapted to the requirements of
ordinary creameries. 1t is described
in Bulletin u of the Burlington Sta
ton. Every dairyman ought to OBJ
tam and read this Bulletin, especially
if he sends his milk to a creamery.
There is much of interest in the
pamphlet besides the description of
the milk test. Send a postal to Ex-
pertinent Station, Burlington, Vt,
and ask for Bulletin No. 21.
J. W, NEWTON,
Stowe, Dec, 26. 1890,