Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-09-30
II COW is KING.


The Future Land of Golden Butter and
Cream Cheese.
The area of TERRITORY included.
within the northern third of Illinois
aud the southern quarter of Wiscon-
sin and the whole State of Iowa,
making about 30. O0G square miles, is
destined. within a 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 ali the qualities of TIL. soil and
climate which particularly designate
this district as the future garden for
the production of the dairy, and these
productions of these sections of the
three States are destined tn over
shadow all others. These fields now
produce corn. wheat. oats, and other
small gram, and the crops generally
compare favorably with those of the
ncighboring States. The farming
lands are, however, pcoplcd with Il
thrifty, industrious, and sharp-wittcd
people, who are by education and
natural intelligence kcenly alive to
all things that offer increased agri-
cultural profit to enterprise and skill.
by slow degrees, by careful obscrva-
tion and experiment, they have dis
covered that in this portion of these
States there are great natural advan-
tagcs 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 produce-thc market price
being fixed by the foreign demand for
the supplies. They find also that,
putting their land in pasture, they
can, with a proper supply of cows,
obtain for their products 30 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. i'm Hill
nois. SO great has the production i'm
Iowa become that Board of Trade
for dairy product has been established
at Cedar Rapids, to which the butter
and cheese OF that State are sent, and
where purchasers from all parts of
Iowa go us to IL central market. The
Same exists at Elgin for this State.
The system is Il plain and practical
nnc. In every county where the in
dustry is i'm progress there are cStab-
liShcd crcamcries. To these crcamer-
les the farmer within 4; few miles
carries every day his milk. which is
tested aud weighed, and for which he
receives the cash i'm hand. The milk
Is ut once made into butter and pre-
pared for shipment and sale The
same proceedings take place at the
cheese factories, wherever the manu-
tarturc 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 i'm the
crop, Us is the casc in wheat, and
gradually us farmers increase their
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 cow being carefully selected
for their m%ilk-giving qualities. we'll
housed and skillfully milked, with the
addition of as many hogs as can be
economically raised.
The revolution i'm farm manage
ment involves a change in the culti-
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 cnsilagc. are all matters of intense
interest, and to their careful study
the dairy farmers arc giving the clos
est attention, and are becoming en-
lightcncd by ripe experience. The
cultivation of corn and sorghum for
cnsilagc, to ecurc 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 to
lie no fear that the dairymen will
suffer any loss from Il want of proper
food for all the cows they can take
care Of on their farms.-Chlcago Trib'
unc.
Rctributinn.
A farmer told this story the othcl
uay at NeWtOWn. L., l.. to n New