The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-02-26
DATRYING
In the United States and Canada.

Correspondence Of the Progressive Farmer.
Twenty five or thirty years ago it
was held by many dairy writer's that,
outside of what they designated al the
dairy belt, dairying could not in this
country be made a success. The sound
ness of that claim in a few years after
first made was seriously questioned
and a few years later the claim aban-
doned. q,
1t is safe to say that nowhere in the
United States either climate nor lati-
tude stands IN the way of successful
dairying in any or all of its branches.
Of course climate, latitude and other
natural conditions are favorable to it
anywhere in the Dominion of Canada.
Now while dairying is adapted to all
sections of this country, it would hard
~ be possible to lay down rules for
conducting it, that in all features would
be equally applicable to all. Yet for
all, save a few extreme Southern States
and the Pacific Coast, a system of
dairying could be suggested that would
in all features, or nearly all, be ap-
plicable.
OF course when it comes to the mat
ter of feed for a dairy herd, that is one
of the parts of a general system of
dairying that must be varied accord
ing as a~daptability of crops for differ
ent sections vary.
Dairying is now pretty generally
recognized as almost a necessary fac
tor in anything that can be correctly
called diversified farming. And at
this time the tendency in this country
is more than ever before in the direc
ton of that system of farming.
AS a part of any system of actual
farming a great deal IA be urged in
favor of dairy ing and but little said
against it. 1t is true there are trials to
endured and difficulties encountered in
the pursuit of dairying, but no branch
of agriculture is free from either.
Time and again it has been said and
written that in order to make a success
of dairying every step from the breed
ing and rearing Of the selection of the
herd to the marketing of the product
must be correctly taken. 1t will, how.
ever, bear saying again and again. For
it is only by repeatedly calling atten-
ton tx a truth that it will be recognized
by many, as such, and adopted in
practice.
Of the three principal products of
the COW, milk, butter, cheese, those
engaged in dairying must decide each
for himself which one is best adapted
to his conditions.
If one is located near a large village
or city the producing of milk to sell
direct to consumers may pay better
than that of butter or cheese, either
directly or indirectly. The same can
be said of one located on a line of rail
road on which is established a milk
route terminating In a large city where
the milk goes into the hands of dealers.
The branch of dairying now under
consideration, milk production, can be
SuDO4N4NOOs HO4 AACUdASO SOu1O uAtk
producers sell skim milk and cream in
stead Of whole milk, selling the former
for what it is, and at about half the
price of whole milk. Generally those
that do so do not try to raise all the
cream, thus furnishing skim milk of
better quality than that from which
cream has been raised for butter max
ing. OF course every milkman could
not sell skim milk and cream, but a
certain portion of them can, and make
it pay.
In the skim milk and cream trade
the market for the latter can be in
creased by supplying manufacturers of
ice cream, hotels, restaurants, soda
fountains and caterers.
+. w. MOsELEY.
Clinton, Iowa.