The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1896-02-07
Consolidated April II. 1890

2o cents bushel. In the dairy business
our only foreign competitors are Den
marx an" Sweden. and in tins country
dalrylng can only h- successfully carr, 4
on between the 4Oth and JUlt. palallel.
Much of this is taken up hy mountains.
SO that dalr!lng is really confined 10 u
very small area He stated that we wer.
pursuing rulnons policy in dsposing
OF our farm products, That we sell our
wheat and our steers. both of which go
10 Chicago, and are there bough! up by
Illinois farmers who ship them out "A
hundred miles or SO, feed the hheat to
the steers IN the shape of bran and
shorts then ship them back 10 Chicago
in the form OF beef and make double the
money that we do. We could as we'll
DO The ieedlng here and ship beef ana
butter making double proft and saw
ing freight charges. A 100 ncre farm
will keep ten cows and yet produce as
much grain as it would without them.
In the afternoon Prof. Phillips took up
'ho ouoJeCt " ulNeislleQ farming.
Farmers should no. depend on any one
thing alone, but should have their farm
interests we'll balanced and continue to
keep them SO. They should do alllhngs
we'll. \ l6O acre farm should have
from 10 10 90 acres Of wheat, 10 acres of
oats, some barly, 15 10 80 acres rf corn
and some mllet. Keep 10 cows, As to
100 sheep If herded, % TO 80 If pastured,
and one hog to every COW Have 4
garden OF or 5 acres, we'll wiitered and
prepared early in the spring. containing
every variety OF garden vegetable and
shrubbr". Some varieties OF plants rec
commended were Early Champion and
Dwarf peas, Dwarf Champion and Early
Ruby tomatoes, large Russian sunfower,
Holton and Downing goosberry, Terner
Sand raspberry, Dakota plum, Martha
ana Minnesota crab apple, Wilson and
Downing strawberry and GAINESVILLE,
grape.
Senator LoWthian said he had | armed
the trade OF farming in Canada and had
followed 1t successfully every since He
believed the methods nf farming here
must change as the country grew Older as,
they had done in Minnesota lie d,.
not always agree with the Professors He
thought there was Danger of loo much d.
versltication. lie preferred shallow plow-
ing and hard compact soil He had
always been successful with COWS From 6
cows during Jan, he had delivered at the
creamery at Milbank 46OOlbs Of llk test
ing per cen, and had milk and butter at
home for family Of 10. After vote of
thanks to the Professors and speakers
Prot. Phillips took his departure on the
evening train. Frank Jollnes spoke on
the necessity OF an education 10 success
in farming. Thomas Hagen gave some in.
teres,ing facts on the keeping of poultry
md the subject was further discussed
by DR.. Clark and Messrs. Couiey, Quin-
berg and Hesselgrave The gentlemen
gave several estimates ot the income Of
aen, some rs high as 50 and others sl.OO
Tor a year, and that bushel Of wheat
ed to the hen on this basis would bring
81 90.
In the evening Prof Wheaton gave an
interesting talk on dairylng. lie said
hat the patent buffers came in direct
with dairy butter More is
sold in Chicago than there is butter made
n the five best butter states around
Chicago. IL patent butter was not sold
1utter would be worth fifty cents in such
;ltles as Aberdeen. The laws of Mas
require it to be colorad red
md those OF Minnesota pink Ov-rpro-
iuctlon was the cry twenty years ago yet
or the past fifteen years butter has
averaged 261 cents on the Chicago hoard
II trade, being highest in July and low
st in Jan. It will average 20 cents for
he next twenty years. The longer
milk stands the more butter there can
De made from the same amount Of cream
All experiment stallons have tried the
different methods OF raising cream and
ind they can obtain ID more by the
separator, the test running from S8 to
- Of per cent. The milk from The
is just as good for calves as
before ii some substitute Tor the butter
AT is added The grade OF butter has
moved westward from New York until it
las reached Dakota and 'Western Ey-
ra" is the best butter on the market.
lie thought Dakota creamaries should
orm board OF trade that they may
ret their proper tia'e on butter In
800 there was not separator creamery
n the state. Today II ere are leo.
ie considered the man hit doubled the
,alue OF 4 pound OF milk as much Of a
ne ha who inakaS fwn hla9oc