The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-02-18
OOWg ARB SAVING KANSAS.
a New Way to Pay on Farm Mortgage
Discovered by the Women.

New Way to Pay on Farm Mortgages
Discovered by the Women.
The cow is saving the farmer Of the
plains She is not the handsomest of his
possessions, but as she is ooaxed into
corner of the yard and gives her milk she
does moro to pay off the mortgages than
any Of the fancy Investments Of which the
western farmer has been so proud. The
last few years have been hard ones for the
dwcllor on the prairie claim. He has
found the price Of grain low and the yield
light. He has experimental and found the
result vexatious. Now he is undertaking
something that is more certain, though
slower. The creamery is being brought to
the front and promises TO be the coming
fayorite in all the prairie regions where
the possibilities of diversified farming are
understood.
In Kansas scores of CreaIneries are being
built each month. Less than ten years ago
the first creamery was established in one
county, and it was one of the first in the
state. Now there are Is in that county,
and of the 1900 families in the farming
communities 200 take to the factory each
morning a greater or less supply of milk.
They get from So to 500 each month for
milk the year round. The average is about
$40, and the total is nearly $500, 600 annu-
ally That means much TO the settlers
who are thus enabled TO have steady in
come not dependent on the rainfall or the
winds.
The prairie women are responsible for
the great advance made in this direction.
They were the first to see the profit to be
gained from tne little things on the claim.
The hens are said to have saved Nebraska,
prOnd the hitrnhln cow IS doing as much for
Kansas. Said one woman the other Iay,.
81 have paid almost all of the mortg gage
on our place by the milk money, and my
husband did not know for a long while the
source Of my income. While our neigh
bors who have depended ON straight farm
ing have suffered and some of them have
lost their places, we have saved money and
are all right. She was one of the frontier
women who have done so much to build
up the west.
The creamery is reaching out to the
farthest places of the west for market
and all the mining camps are now depend
ing on the plains for butter and cheese
The Mexican trade is also coming to the
front because of the increase Of the refrig
orator cars which make it possible to
take the product to It's destination I'm good
condition
The cattle that were once supposed TO
rustic for themselves through the winter
are now carefully shielded, and their In
crease is saved with solicitude, for the
farmers are seeing that herein lies the way
to better times. Twenty cars Of corn take
about the same money in the market as
ono CIR of butter The latter pays little
more freight than one of the cars of corn.
Here the farmer finds the solution of the
freight rates, and if he can work along this
line people viii see and hear less of the
dissatisfaction that has become so common
in many sections The west is all right if
the right way to use it is found. The hum
bic cow is pointing ont one way that prom
ises to be very successful.-New York sun.
Bernas skipped.
A Pole named Bernas Lukaszewicz, aged 25
years skipped out Of town on election day,
leaving an unpaid board bill and taking Sl7
in cash and other valuables belonging to
people in the house where he boarded He
ie srnuoged tn have gone TO New York