The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-04-23
CREAMERY EXPERIENCE.
What can BE Done bv Mixed Farming
and ~Creameries.

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The following letter written by n
gentleman named Pfeffer at Eureka,
S. d. is published in the Eureka Blade
and this town, northwest of us,
remember, has been the largest in
land wheat shipping point in the
world: "We started with about 500
COWS and our highest receipts OF milk
was 1900 pounds per day. The
average income per month for SIX
months was 81 300. Our farmers,
as soon as the first months receipts
were paid them, bought all the COWS
they could. Many thathad only three
COWS to start with now have from,
ii fteen to twenty. 1t is not only the
price of butter that we farmers figure
upon. The monthly income will pay
the running expenses. The more
| cows the more calves; the more skim
| milk to feed hogs, and the more
manure to improve the land. The
good prices of butter encourages
them to buy cows and after that the
general advantages will follow.
When we were in Minnesota thefarm-
ers told us that they got Ort OF debt
so rapidly that they could hardly
realize it. The constant expense of
machinery had ceased and daily re-
ceipts increased, consequently they
stopped contracting debts. Our del
egatiOn, when in Minnesota, saw at
once the advantage in diversified
farming. First those farmers had
only n half OF quarter section of
land. This they had Just for their
own use and must keep their stock on
this, consequently they could not
raise any calves. This is one advan-
tage we have oyer closely settled
countries. Again, those farmers
must raise pasture and feed on their
own land to feed their stock. We
have the prairie here and have moth
ing to do but put up the hay and SO
can raise the calves and the income
of the cattle is extra. 1t is really
surprising how the patrons of our
creamery are picking up lands i'll the
vicinity of Eureka. am daily get
ting letters from Minnesota menC old
time friends that now have grown-up
children) asking in regard to lands
and the advancement we have made
in Creameries. Quite Il number have
promised to come out in the spring
and look this country over Those
see what is coming. They have
been worse off than we are; many of
them have lost their farms by mort
| cages from three to five hundred dol
lars, and this same land in ten years
became worth from $50 to $40 per
acre under different managementa and
stock raising and dairying. | wish
to say: Do all you a to encourage
the farmers even ii il is a little hard
for the first one or two years. 1t
will be the building up ofthecountry.
! think it is the duty OF the business
men OF any town to get togetherand
help raise the money to huilda cream
cry and turn it over to the farmers,
with some good business man at the
head to run and manage it and ship
the butter and get the returns. The
trouble is business men are always
ready to advise the farmers to 90 into
diversified farming but when it comes
to assistance they are not there. |
have had two farmers offer me their
land, stock and everything they had
II would give them up their papers.
That was three years ago. Today
they have paid all their arrears of
taxes and interest and little floating
bills around town, and one of them
says that INSIDE of three years hecan
see himself clear out of debt. You
explain to the farmers that II COW
will average from $2to $4permonth.
Taking $3 as a basis for rhine months,
will he 1927, the calf is worth S. and
the skim milk will feed a hog surely