The record-union., 1893-05-03

With good supply of cream in the fall
and winter creameries could realize larger
profits than in summer. Butter is high
then,a and all they could make could be sold
for a high price. But the trouble is they
cannot get enough cream from their regu-
lar patrons to make it pay to keep the
creamery open. 1t is business question
with them, and so as the only solution to
it they have to close from three to six
months every year.
Now this is simply another reason
why moro attention should be given to
improved winter dairying. If all the
dairymen could supply more cream
for the creameries than they do now
through the winter their business would
never stop. The majority of the cows
are simply summer animals. They yield
good milk and cream during spring and
summer, but shut down almost COM
Dletely when winter comes. II would
even pay the dairymen to have winter
cows instead of summer. Keep them
dry in summer, and harvest good milk
producing feed for winter. Then feed
them well, give them warm quarters,
and make twice the profit from the sale
OF the cream that is now realized.
But the right cows, properly fed and
housed and managed, can be made to
produce good cream summer and winter.
The fact that the old-tashioned dairying
was practiced only during summer holds
such sway over the minds of some farm
ers that they are averse to attempting
anything else. They will not give proper
heed to the feed and housing. The ami
mails are going to be an expense anyway
and so they reason we will reduce it next
to nothing.
than summer if 1t is properly obtained
and fed. Good lnillet, hay and corn fod-
der can be provided in abundance and
the silo will yield enough succuent food
to keep the animals in excellent con-
dition. Give the COWS warm house on
cold days, and let them spend most of
their time in it. a few hours a day in
the yard will give them enough exercise.
In fact, the exercise and fresh air theory
for cows has been worked for more than
1t is worth. The animals need warmer
stables more than they do more eXer-
else. All the exercise they require
is just enough to keep their organs
in good condition. More than this, the
cold weather dries up their milk. Give
winter dairying its proper attention, and
our creameries will be running the year
round.-E. p. Smith. in American Guilt
vator.
SPECULATION ON THE FARM.
Farmers are too much like sheep, all go
in lump, even to their own destruction.
Whenever there is a boom in any one
thing, be 1t in the time of grain produc-
tIou or stock-ralsing, they all try TO see
who can get into the business first and
deepest. They figure on the present
prices and think they see their way
TO fortune by the airline route,
fact that the whole country is bent
on pursuing the same purpose, and
how utterly impossible it will be for
all to get there, These heavily loaded
trains are always the ones most liable to
be wrecked and create the most horrible
and widespread disaster. If you can't
get on the train just ahead of the ex-
cursion, take short cut in some other
direction.
We have now IN our minds eye the
American hog. He is now receiving
more consideration than he has had for
several years past. Foreign markets
have been thrown open TO him. Every
body, 1t seems, wants a piece of him, and
while this is the case there won't be
enough to go around. He is worth nearly
three times as much as he was year ago
He doesn't have to be very large to bring
the farmer the snug little sum of S25-
moro than his best cow is worth. When
you start out into the country to gather
up a few stockers, they are not to be
found for love or money, and when you sit
down 1t Is an easy matter to figure up
enormous profits in the business, if YOU
only had start. 1t takes a small for
tune 10 get a start, but there are lots of
venturesome souls who are not afraid to
risk their fortunes in this direction, nor
will they lie a whit less timid when they
get stuck, and venture their surplus in
whatever direction the next boom leads
them.
When all his neighbors are going into
any business, the shrewd farmer, for
that very reason, turns his attention to
some neglected branch of agriculture,
something apparently under a cloud.
When everybody is trying to get out of
what seems 10 be an Improbable busi-
ness, he carefully culls his tlocks or
strengthens his soil fertility, and is ready
to profit from the first boom that strikes.
and ordinarily doesn't have long to wait
for it after he is ready for it to come.
Farming is u game of see-saw. What
is up to-day Will be down tomorrow.
and vice versa. Just now the cattle and
horse business is under a cloud. Cattle
are looking up a little and horses still
looking down. 1t may not be too late
yet to invest in some good cattle and build
up good herd and be ready for the boom
1t is just the right time to decide upon