The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-01-24
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A CREAM FARM.
A Man who Makes Money out of Selling
Cream,

A Man who Makes Money Out OF Selling
Cream,
Edwin H. Clark of East Norris !
Conn, sells 400 to 500 quarts of cream
dav and has steady trade. 1t is not !,
all produced from his own cows, but he
buys from his neighbors rs well. Some
of it he makes into ice cream in tho
summer. He explained his methods and
management to q correspondent OF the
Rural New Yorker not long since. As
to the price he pays for the cream he
bays:
II have not found it necessary to
| fuctuate with the markets, but pay the
uniform and liberal price of cents per
space in winter and cents In summer
NV patrons are satisfied and anxious to
make more and more cream, which they
can do by the judicious breeding and
rearing of good stock. Some of my pa
irons already get rs high as $50 per
mouth for cream, and the probabilities
are that in the near future they will re-
ceiyo much more than this, because
many of them are raising fino herds of
high grade heifers. The advantages of
cream selling are many. They include
the use of the skimmilk on the farm,
which enables the owner constantly to
raise more and more good dairy cows as
well as the pork and veal necessary for
family use. The system of cream selling
is one Of the best which farmers have
ever adopted, as everybody will tell you
who has tried it for any length of time. "
"You have found it profitable to buy
and ship your ncighbors' cream as well
as your ownF
81 have although it is very close
business and needs to be managed judi
ciously."
"Has experience taught you any spe.
2 cific lesson in your cream management
e eyes, / believe have learned that
{ it does not pay to fuss with retailers
and prefer to buy and skip i'll larger
quantities as time goes on. "
II suppose you sell skimmilk, get
ting about 10 cents per CAM
81 sell q little, but am fortunate
enough to get 60 cents, or = cents per
quart. 1t is used by families. Most of
the buttermilk sell brings me 0 cents
per can. came here is years ago, have
built this large barn, 40 by so, with Is
foot posts, erected several smaller build
ings, repaired my house twice and laid
, out great deal Of money in other dl-
rections. But this has not all been made
out of creamery. My dairy herd Of 20
COWS has been great help, rs well as
the taking of summer boarders.
Al Mr.. Clark has q herd of 20 Jersey cows,
which make him a return Of $lI5 pei
}, month from their cream and butter.
10 He raises 10 to ~ choice calves and {
lot of fine young pork on the skimmill
each year. He has only $40 acres, bu
it is good land. Does not dairying pay
f, Mr. Clark is of the opinion that it does
His returns last year were about 81, 800
He complains that the cost of hiring
three or four men takes largely from
the profits. Mr. Clark makes grea
handle of fodder corn, besides raising
quantity of grain. The latest crop wa
- field of 10 acres, which produced /, 1O
bushels of ears. A windmill surmount
the great barn and is almost Away
ready for use in grinding, thrashing
cutting fodder or doing other jobs 10
which power is required
Mr.. Clark's method Of tying his COW
is an original one and satisfactory. Tw
IN perpendicular poles have each slidln
ring. These rings are connected by
~ chain, to which the cow is fastened b
second chain, which goes about he
neck. The stalls are adapted TO tw
COWS each. Here they have perfect free
al dom and yet cannot harm each othel
The rings slide up and down upon tn
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