The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-11-21
KIMBALL CREAMERY

MMBALL CREAMERY
Klmball =. 1900 IL 81
The report Of the Kansas, Wisconsin
and Minnesota creameries ran about the
as those in Iowa. These reports
are not especially selected, bear in mind,
but comprise all sent in TO the Creamery
journal and Produce Review for that
particular month, and it is fair to assume
that they are representative creameries.
Some are operated as private plants, while
others are run on the cooperative plan.
The average make was $3.50 pounds week.
ly and the average price paid by these
twenty-five Iowa creameries was 4S15
cents for 4 per cent. milk. Following
their reports we give the returns Of the
kimba!l creamery for the same month.
1t should be considered, too. that on top
of the better showing made By the Kim
ball plant the average weekly milk re-
ceipts were 10000 pounds less than the
average Of the Iowa factories. This in
itself would make several cents differ
ence in the price of milk in favor of the
kimball plant. In addition to this the
cost of coal in Iowa is not over one-half
what it is here and the freight on the
butter and all supplies coming in very
much less. The deductions. therefore,
are not only tlattering to the promoters,
stockholders. patrons aud management
OF the Kimball creamery, but more than
all the inquiry is suggested: if the Iowa
farmers find it profitable upon these re-
turns to build, equip and patronize
creameries year in and year out. with
COWS pastured on $50 and SIS an acre
land and fed with So to $12 hay, what
can the South Dakota farmer 90 with
their cheap lands, unlimited range and
low priced feed?
"Wallace's Farmer" puts it thus: The
east has good dairy COWS but costly feed.
The west has cheap feed, but inferior
cows. Ii the east had cheap feed for her
cows, western dairymen would be killed
off. II the west will improve her cows
she can absorb the eastern dairyman.
Why the milk Of the same COW on the
same feed varies in quality from one
day to another l do not know. l have
Investigated the matter to the extent of
about 10000 tests with our cows. | find
that in the SAME stable. with the same
feed. with the same conditions in every
way as nearly as | can judge, the milk of
one COW will vary to the extent Of as
much as 1a4 per cent OF fat. | doubt il
We shall ever learn the reason or reasons,
1t seems to be something relating to the
principle of life. and too SUPPLE for us to
discern or comprehend. 1t is with a
man as with a cOw-some days lie can
do more work than others. but lie cannot
explain the reason.-PrOf. j. w. Robert
son in Cow Culture.
A question that comes III is that OF
cost for the single equipment of the
farm creamery, as ag ainst large cooper
alton. Ii we go to the market singly we
must supply tile BEST, and what does that
implyP 1t means hand separators, new
churns, and a whole lot of things that
will probably cost not less than 5000
For $50 farmers this would mean $4,000
while the cost of a big creamery to dc
the work of all would not exceed $40
each. or course many will say that il
will not cost ANYTHING to make the but.
ter at home. / am convinced that but
ter made at home is very dearly made
just in losses alone. Unless tho best
apparatus is used, the losses IN creamlng
are heavy, and tests that were made un,
What is claimed as champion dairy
COW in the world" is Il Shortnorn named
"~Honeycomb" bred BY John Lindsey, O
Kembla Park, Unandernn, New South
Wales. Australia The record claimed
for her is S415 pounds of milk in 2
hours. Welding 4 pounds and 4 ounces Of
butter.
der my own eyes the present winter
showed losses In butter fat of from 4 tt
Ia pounds of butter fat to 100 pounds o
milk, ard the operators were sure they
were doing close work. Can you affort
that? But you say the pig consumes tn,
skinned milk and so gets tho benefit
Can you afford to feed n pig 2O-cent but
ter, when a pound Of oil meal. costing
a cent, will do him quite as much good
Thus you see the modern way of cream
ing milk saves enough to pay for max
ing the butter. john Gould in Cow Gul
TUE.
Milch COW drink 90 per cent NOR,
water than those not in milk. 1t tn,
Geneva, N. Y. experiment station TIL,
Jerseys drink the most-5.25 pounds Q
water TO q OF milk produced; til,
iGGerEscys next; and si%iorthorns, Devons
iHo'steins and Ayrsliies after them il
diminishing order.
There arc canned goods and came,
goods, but none ike TIA Monarch brand