The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-02-28
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
BY JAMES ARNOLD.


viously mentioned will each have their
advocates, and it will be we'll to look
at their merits. No matter how many
creameries are started, the home dairy
will exist for many years to come, and
its product will be- exchanged for store
goods. If a farmer lives too far from
a creamery, it will not pay him to
have anything to do with it, but COWS
on farm are almost necessity, for
the farmer himself needs milk and
butter for his family. and it is but lit
tie more labor to churn for 30 pound
butter than 10 pounds. The farmers
family may consist too, of girls, and
it surely must be better for them to
milk few COWS and make butter,
than to run team in the field, for
few farmers can afford to bring up
their girls without labor of some sort.
1t is necessary also that farmer
should have some income besides his
field crops, and butter seems to sup
ply this, but to make good butter one
must have several cows, for OF cream
standing round several days, good
butter cannot be made. Again, he
may not choose to go into any CO.
operative business, for such things are
not always success, and then there
is unpleasantness, and perhaps loss.
| have seen cooperative concerns that
did not pan out according to promise;
in fact, have felt pain in my own
pocket. Again, it takes some time
: for whole neighborhood to change
from one thing to another in farming,
and farmers just now, don't seem to
: be staggering under their load of the
/ blooming stuff, called money. 1t took
me three years to pick up ten COWS
that were worth their brand for the
dairy. OF course l had a good many
COWS besides these during that time,
but our stock was mostly shorthorn
grades and but few of these were
noted as mixers. l had rather milk
a COW that gives ten quarts, than one
that gives five quarts, and the milking
, can be done in almost the same length
of time; and one feels in much bet
, ter frame of mind when feeding the
COW that gives the ten quarts. AS tc
the comparative merits of the cream
gathering and separator systems, We
: shall see by investigation that each
has some merits over the other. The
cream gathering system 1 think, car
, be used to a better advantage in {
sparsely settled country, for the follow
Q ing reasons: It costs less for the
t plant, consequently takes less capital
to start. 1t can cover more territory
for it is far less labor,in the sum total
> to get the cream to the factory, thar
to haul the whole milk. The cream
b wagon too, can pick up small lots o
i cream when it would not pay the farm
or to haul the whole milk to the fac
tory, and I consider this great ad
vantage in working into diversified
: farming, and farther, the cream gath
Il ering makes no extra demand on tn
farmers team and time. In favor o
:. the separator, it is advocated tina
u more butter can be extracted from
y the milk, but l don't consider thi
IS much, for if you want to raise you
l. calves, you will have to fed SOM
other fatty food, las flax seed,) O
your calves will be little, pot bellieC
n cat-hammed scrubs, not worth te
y cents dozen. As to the better but
, ter, think surely when the cream i
all separated and cured right in tn
= factory, it ought to produce butter @
u the highest quality. Right here,
st am going to give a word of warnin
4. to my fellow farmers: don't let an
e glib machine agent talk you blind AN
then put his hand in your poke
d The separator process with its Who'll
% milk delivery is only suited to thickl
If settled regions, or exclusive dairy dir
tricts, and any one who advises you
the contrary is not your friend. Gu
next question to consider is the HON
y cheese factory, this has some advar
le tages and also some disadvantage
The quantity of average milk that wi
p make pound of butter, will make 2
; !. pounds of cheese, so that if chees
D. will fetch 8 cents per pound, butte
to yield as much returns, should fetc
s. nearly 20 cents, say Is cents, as the1
r. is more labor in cheese than butte
it takes longer to get money return
on account of the curing, and tn
to offal or whey is worth less than TIL
Sc from butter dairying. It is hard
he raise good calves and make chees
~ unless you have all your cows con
- in together, and then give your calv'
ID a good start before you commend
ur cheese making, but cheese is vel
ty nutritious diet, and should be use
much more, both on our farms and
the cities. In Europe it largely gu
q plies the place of meat. A very goe
ay cheese for home consumption can
a made in the following manner: S
ne your nights milk in cold water in son
n deep vessel, then in the mornir
:" warm it to the temperature OF ne
ng milk, add to it your mornings mi
on and put it in tub or vat. Now 81
on in your rennet, which should be abo
one ounce to 100 pounds of mil
Cover it and leave it till the curd b