The Newtown bee., 1894-10-05
Live Farm Topics.
PROFITABLE WINTER DAIRYING.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE BEL

In every industry of business, the most profit is made in the byways, and outside of the well-worn and beaten track, in which competitors crowd each other. Thus, in the butter or cheese dairy, it is the man who has some un- common product to offer, either wholly novel, or unreasonable, who gets the high prices and the best customers. Of course, all this involves enterprise, skill, and means for taking advantage of the opportunities, and these are really mer- chantable commodities that sell for good deal of money. Thus, winter dairying is a business in which compet- ition is light, because it calls for all those accessories that are scarce in the dairy industry. Many who hear of the profits of winter dairying show their inaptitude immediately by the con- plaint, II cannot get my cows to come | in at the right time." This is the first difficulty in the way. The next is, ''I have no proper dairy fixtures for this.'' Then follow other things, and the re- suit is that, like the scholar who in- sisted he could never learn the multi plication table, and never did, because he would not try, this class of dairymen keep in the hard beaten track where, for want of the energy that keeps them out of better business, they are pushed l to the wall.
 1 But when there is a will to do any, thing, it is easy; and the man who has will to do so, may succeed in winter dairying more easily then he can in the summer business. Heat and damp, mug gy weather are the bane of the summer dairy; but in the winter one may make perpetual summer by warm stables where the temperature may be con- trolled. There are no troubles with mildew in winter and the germs that so much annoy the dairyman are asleep for their season of rest. So the winter dairyman has all his forces in complete subjection, and he laughs at the storms, and the drifting snows and the zero mark on his therometer outside, while in his artificial summer, without the sudden changes and the outward influence of the heated term, he manages his cows, and the milk and the cream with scien- tific exactitude, so that he need never go astray.
 Let us take look at such a winter dairy. The cows are fresh, having been picked up cheaply from other dairy men, because they have no use for fresh cows at this season, or they are heifers, bred to come in at this season. It is late autumn, and the city people who have been living in the country for the sum- mer, like the swallows "homeward fly" They have had fresh butter iii the coun- try, perhaps of really good quality, and they do not like the stale flavor of that bought in the markets, often with sus. picion of oleo about it. The demand for fine fresh butter is, therefore, strong and active. It is very easy to sell any good thing when thousands of people are longing and pining for it. And so our dairyman has advertised the fact that he has fine, fresh Jersey butter to sell, and he finds plenty of customers. The barn is spacious and comfortably filled
 There is room in it for perfect cleanli- ness. The COWS are provided with the best, early-cut hay of mixed clover and timothy, or other good grass. There is bin full of corn meal, another of bran, and one of malt sprouts, with little cottonseed meal for the grain food. They have pure water, warm, from a clean well. The cows are fed literally, and are kept as sleek as race horses by brushing twice day, and their clean beds are of cut straw or cbaff.
 The author proceeds to say, in a some. what lengthy article in the American Agriculturist that this butter should be
 boxed and shipped once per week on the
 same day and hour to customers so they
 may always know when to expect it. and not be compelled to wait. Such
 buyers will usually have their money E ready, and cash patronage is wortf , having. The buyer of any commodity l who pays the farmer honestly and reg ularly, even though the price agreed upon is even lower than the prices of th' irregular or unreliable pay-master, il much to be preferred.-[ Max Moore.