The Red Cloud chief., 1897-11-12
Winter DalryIng.

be greatly helped by progressive dairy
men making winter dairying their
principal line OF work. At the present
time there are 80 many that produce
butter In the summer that the price Is
always depressed In the summer
months, and depressed, To, to such a
point that the profits are entirely
wiped out, except where butter Is pro-
duced under exceptional conditions.
Winter dairying would decrease the
amount of butter that Ia thrown on the
market In the summer time. 1t would
help the dairymen In a number OF
ways. The amount being lessened,
there would be in summer no time
whom the butter would be exceptional
ly low. This would prevent spectators
from buying up cheap butter and put
ting II In cold storage TO be brought
out and sold In winter in competition
with winter-made butter. Thus the
prices would be kept at about an aver
~ the year round. This condition Of
Affairs would yield the greatest profit TO
butter makers. F~Iuctuating prices are a
detrinent to any business, except that
~ speculation. Stable prices eliminate
the speculator. Stable prices have the
effect Of stimulating the consumption
81 any article. A sudden rise OF prices
generally curtails sales Till the people
get used to paying the advance. The
s6orts Of the dairymen should be To
bring about uniformity so far az pos
a1Dle.
The men that must begin the win
ter dairying are our most progressive
men, the men that have silos, or at
kast that know how TO provide their
cows with succulent food in winter and
feed in a way that will keep up q con-
stAnt aow Of milk. We canno expect
the mon that never read and seldom
think to make q success Of winter
onsrying. It requires more skill than
u does TO do summer dairying. or. we
should say. reckless dairyins. letting
thfngs take their course.
One objection to winter dsirying has
bssn that It requires TOO constant
work. the sowing Of special %succulent
crops in the spring and summer. the
0thsring Of them In the fall, and the
are Of the milk and butter and their
0ls In the winter, making twelve
months Of work. II II much easier to
work seven o. eight months In the
summsr method of dairying and have
. few months Of good. solid rest. But
Whe oan fairly expect to thrive on
working part Of the time during the
ysArf Because winter dairying makes
II possible to put In twelve months Of
ssltA paying work instead Of eight 10
one Of he go Why It should pay Q
RsaAse proAt. Few car hope TO get
- nuoh pseat out Of eight nonhhs'
week q out q twelve. Il he's bssa
AOursd cut that MILK and butter In the
winter Ass woeth On IL average about
- p3 ssok nsgs than In the summer.
AAdsd - tAa& = the asserted fact that
~ total MIX production for the year
- sotsa % pss cent more. aAA yss
hAvs Q eonsldseable advance. The ~
soa fee this iAersAsed dow Of milk =
fsuAA In tis fact that during every
sumasr there 10 . dry period when
Ne pastures st very short and the
gFass WI dry. During thA tine the
cows are not gsasrally fed ON succu-
Lent fodder to keep up the now Of milk.
The supply falls %. and. u all dairy
men know, never sets back to Its for
Asr abundant dow. The loss from this
caus y very grsAt, when We take into
consideration the millions OF cows in
the country. BY . proper course Of
feed the winter dairyman avoids this
pitfall. II he feeds silass the proven
ton OF any such failing on Is easy.
Even Y - 6os1s SeAss ausoulsnt Nd
WITH ehuAAnAss q SyuiA bno1 the sue
tsre svoads anything corrssDondinx 70
tAs summer drouth. and keeps up The
1Sw q milk trsa the time Of tie oow
se0iaS IN froh 70 the tine Of drying
up prsvious TO calvisg again.
osas Sse he argumeat tAas II I'll
rasA iAee wiAtss dairyinG there will be
70 prsot In It for any 0ae. That y q
osaetAgeacy tAsk need net be guarded
a0Aiast. Visor dairying IL too much
hks work o everyone to run into II.
Most mea care so much for ease that
they Will take the saAisst route, wheth.
Or II pays Or not. Then there are n
great many mon that are beyond the
reach OF this propaganda, and they
Will never think Of changing. Alto
Osther, there Is no danger that the
number In this particular line will be-
come 20 great that PROFITS will drop TO
MI.
A Plan Thst Tailed.-Some years sxo
sAysSHoard's Dairyman, We ran across
the following tsrse bit OF dairy experi,
ence. from . Wisconsin local paper: A
friend appeals to US to suggest some.
thing for the fly tormentsd mixers
It's no use. my veteran friend, we've
tried II. Once, when a boy, we though,
We would fx . frisky heifer, and 10 tied
her tail to our boot strap. The heifeI
gave two or three jerks, and then go,
right up In meetin' and lit out. We
well, We managed to keep up with thu
heifer with the assistance OF the tail
but there was altogether too much con,
fusion about 1t TO make 1t interesting