Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-11-26

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the sea board on the fast refrigerator
freight, which leaves here daily at !
o'clock, reaching New York on the al
ternoon Of the third day.
We are informed that there is a
steady and increasing demand for
Kansas butter in all eastern markets
on account of its particularly fine
flavor, which is attributed largely to
the pastures and feed upon which the
mich cows are fed. Since the last
meeting Of the association was held
here in 1896, we learn that the num-
Der Of milch cows increased from ID
to % head per section, and the
monthly payment for $4,000 to
$3.50, 900. = From the Dickinson
County Dairyman, November, 1896.
Tomorrow morning there will be
5000 farmers in Kansas having an
average Of five cows, who will do their
own churning Of weeks milk sup
ply, in an old fashioned dash churn;
and with their facilities as you will
find them on the average farm, to be
very liberal and to give them the adj
vantage Of any doubts, each one OF
those 5000 farmers, after he or she
lin most cases she) is through with
the operation, will have ID pounds OF
butter worth on the market, and Of
course no more for his own use, 10
cents per pound, or 1925; an ,aggre-
gate for tomorrow mornings churn-
ing Of $ll,250.
The same milk delivered to large
butter manufacturing establishments
with improved methods Of handling
milk would produce % pounds OF fine
tirst-class western extra grade OF
creamery butter, worth at present ~
cents per pound, or 70 for each farm
er; in the aggregate $4,000. The
loss sustained in this one churning
tomorrow morning will be the enor-
nous sum Of $4,000.
He closed with a prediction ofmuch
greater success ahead, in showing
how cooperative creameries have a
hard time and in calling attention to
some needs Of the dairy system. II
was a splendid paper and put sub
stantial facts in an attractive way.
THE HUMBLE COW.
Secretary Coburn Of the State
Board Of Agriculture gave a talk or
"Let us get better acquainted with
the cow
Mr.. Coburn said among other gooC
things: II claim that the COW is .
vastly better institution than most o
us give her credit for; that it is In hel
power and is her pleasure to do muct
more for us than we as yet permit
her to do, through doing little more
for her. If she, with the care w
might well bestow on her, and the
feeds we raise in a profusion unsur
passed anywhere else on earth, car
yield us milk containing 200 or 800
pounds Of butter fat in year it is
folly well-nigh wicked to be satisfied
with a yield only half as great; If BY
churning her cream with brains the
product will sell for IL instead Of {
cents per pound, or 20 cents insteac
of 10, we owe it to ourselves to put II
the requisite brains. Here and thel'
men are doing this, and wherever ant
whoever they are they have money
their conditions are improving anc
they are not talking Of cmigrating
They are here to stay, and will built
up the country by building up them
selves. Free coinage, 16 to L will b.
the medium; free coinage Of colder
butter and cheese, at the ratio Of II
ounces to one pound. The people o
this county Of Dickinson more thai
those Of any other in the stat
have caught the inspiration, as tn
assessors returns show q per cen
more mich cows here than its closes
competitor in dairying has, and
dairy output "a! per cent greater il
value the past year than any othe
county in Kansas. Furthermore
while there has been slight decrease
in the number Of COWS probably gon'
to do missionary work elsewhere) thu
value Of the county's COW products
spite of falling prices has shown al
increase Of about $4,000, or s. PEI
cent. Neither crop failure nor thu
crime Of 49, have prevented the COW
owners Of this county from jinglin!
in their pockets more than quartz