The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-02
THE DAIRY INDUSTRY.
Piedmont Section Of Virginia Will BE =
Great Dairy Region.
Editor of The Times:

Editor or The Times.
Sir,-There Is no doubt in my mind but
what the Piedmont section Of the South is
destined to be the great dairy region.
IL Is unquestionably true that all the ele-
ments necessary for the success OF this
Industry exist IN the South. and doubtless
the earlier a farmer gets into the terri
tory and studies the conditions>and inter-
csts or the country the sooner he Will
realize that there Is In the dairy farm an
avenue OF success.
have Just read an address on the sub
ject recently delivered before some farm
ers Ia the West IL Is quoted below with the
hope that some Of your readers viii find
therein some thought that will induce
them TO become further interested In this
Important industry:
The farmer that Is isolated from mar
lcts and Is obliged 10 barter HIS butter at
the store for eight or ten ceIfss a pound
will never get wealthy, and the best
thing he can do is 10 join with his neigh
bors and try to Induce some one 10 put in
a creamery. -he COW worth from so 10
So and given $50 worth Of feed in a year,
If judiciously handled. near a good mar
ket. will make a profit for her owner.
She should prod1ce GOO pounds of to
- IFA '|hAs Num- Wlllialf NBiA ~ ~
creamery at the average price Of 50 cents
hundred. would return s4S 10 S54 a year.
Besides, there would be the skm-milk,
the calf and the manure. Twenty dol
lars TO S25 is considered a good profit on a
COW after paying for feed and labor, say
ing nothing about the by-products. The
COW that produces go p-unds Of butter
a year will do so at cost OF 10 cents a
pound. II she is well managed. The aver
age cost, however, IS about u cents a
pound, based on the price Of feeds from
year to year. The COW that produces only
200 pounds a year would DO so az cost
of - cents pound, and the 80 pounds
year cow at a cost OF % sents. taking
II for granted that the feed is the same
in either case.
THE pleasant feature about dairying IS
the profit. II the profit is not found, there
is no pleasure ia the work. This is a
general law, but IL applies with a special
force 20 dairying, because profitable dairy
ing is fine art. and success is won by
strict attention 10 business. The man who
looks upon COW as necessary evil can
never be a decided success as dairy
man. and more than a slovenly farmer
can make a success az farming. The price
received for butter depends chiefly upon
the ld<7lf vi AAAf iNlirANf AiN At+N'tAA
gent butter-maker studies the tastes Of
those people who are willing 10 pay well
for what suits them and then he learns
how 10 make that kind Of butter. II IS
the only way he can get their money. IL
IL not the expense OF manufacture that
fixes the price. The Consumer cares not
that the butter per-aps cost untold labor
on the part OF some one who churned and
prepared II FOR market II inferior. n
sells for I'm inferior price. regardless OF
the cost OF prediction. and II II Is supe-
rior, IL sells at TOP prices. though made
with ease and lite expense. And the
beauty remains that the cost Of produc-
ing the best butter need not be greater
than that OF producing goods OF poorer
quality; in fact. the had article is general
~ made at the greater cost. Ignorance Is
expensive. Il will make every one who
owns cows better dairyrnan 20 81 down
and compare the prices OF dairy goods
with those OF other farm products. II
your cheap grains can be converted into
20 and 25-cent butter and Decent cheese
or 81 10 yl.15 per hundred FOR milk. II will
pay better than ceiling the raw material
and robbing the farm Of all the fertilizing
material that muci-0 u the land is already
I'm need or
HlIO" NE 70 iufIncr suggest 70 me
farmer. VIZ, Clip this article as quoted
keep II before yotI. put with IL every item
you can secure from other sources, obtain
the experience Of elccessful dairyrnen.
follow up and STUDY the question. You
will find II a source Of much pleasant
study. and the result mag terminate in
you and Your neighhors Building mp one
Of the most prosperous dairying commu-
mites IN the South. VIII be glad 10 give
any further information or data on this
subject within our power
NJ " RICHARDS.
Washington. D. C.. July 90. 1876.