Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-09-29
THE COW IS KING.
rhs Future Land OF Golden Butter and
Cream Cheese.

The Future Land OF Golden Butter and
Cream Cheese.
The area of territory included
within the northern third of Illinois
and the southern quarter of Wiscon-
sin and the whole State of Iowa,
making about 90, O0G square miles, is
destined, within comparatively
brief term, to become the greatest
garden for dairy products in the
world. Within this compact belt OF
land, extending west from Lake
Michigan to the Missouri River, and
bounded on the north and south by
the lines marking the north and
south boundaries Of Iowa, are to be
found all the qualities Of the soil and
climate which particularly designate
tlis district as the future garden for
the production o9 the dairy, and these
productions of these sections of the
! three States are destined to over
shadow all others. These fields now
produce corn, wheat, oats, and other
small grain, and the crops generally
compare favorably with those of the
neighboring States. The farming
lands are, however, peopled with a
thrifty, industrious, and sharp-witted
people, who are by education and
| natural intelligence keenly alive to
all things that offer increased agri-
cultural profit to enterprise and skill.
By slow degrees, by CAREFUL observa-
tiOn and experiment, they have dis
| covered that in this portion of these
| States there are great natural advan-
tages for the pasturage of COWS and
the production of butter and cheese.
They have discovered that of their
ordinary farm products, in the shape
Of grain, they receive about 80 per
cent Of the commercial value of
what they Productive market price
being fixed by the foreign demand for
the supplies. They find also that,
putting their land in pasture, they
can, with proper supply of cows,
obtain for their products 80 per cent.
of its marketable value-only 10 per
cent. being taken for transportation
and brokerage.
The central points in this great
district Of dairy production are Cedar
Rapids, IN Iowa, and Elgin, in Hi
nOis. So great has the production in
Iowa become that a Board of Trade
for dairy product has been established
|
and cheese OF that State are sent, and
where purchasers from all parts of
Iowa go as to central market. The
same exists at Elgin for this State.
The system is plain and practical
one. In every county where the in
dustry is in progress there are estab-
lished creameries. To these creamer-
les the farmer within a few miles
carries every day his milk, which is
tested and weighed, and for which he
receives the cash in hand. The milk
Is at once made into butter and pre-
pared for shipment and sale The
same proceedings take place at the
cheese factories, wherever the manu-
facture of cheese is separated from
that of the butter. The farmer sells
his milk almost at his own door, Sc
curing the price of it on delivery.
There is hardly an uncertainty in the
crop, as is the case in wheat, anC
! gradually as farmers increase then
stock of cows less of their land is de-
voted to grain. Each farmer will
keep as many COWS as his land will
feed, the COWS being carefully selected
for their milk-giving qualities, well
housed and skillfully MIXED, with the
addition Of as many hogs as can be
economically raised.
The revolution in farm manage
ment involves a change in the cuIti-
walton of the soil and the variation
of the planting. The best kinds OF
food, both for winter and summer,
have to be tested by long experience.
The varied forms of seed, blue grass,
timothy, and clover, the quantities
of root crops, and especially the cul-
tivation of sown corn and sorghum
for ens1lage. are all matters of intense
interest, and to their careful study
the dairy farmers are giving the clos
est attention, and are becoming en-
lightened by ripe experience. The
cultivation Of corn and sorghum for
ensilage, to secure a supply of green
food during the whole season, is now
universal; and throughout the whole
area in which the dairy interest is
spreading so rapidly there seems tC
be no fear that the dairymen will
suffer any loss from a want of proper
food for all the cows they can take
care of on their farms Chicago Trib
une.
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