The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1897-01-14
Makes a Plea For the Cow.

report just issued by Secretary Co
burn of the State Board of Agricul-
ture. Mr.. Coburn thinks the farmers
OF Kansas do not pay enough atten-
ton to dairy products he says:
81 claim that the COW is q
vastly better institution than most of
us give her credit for; that it is in
her power and is her pleasure to do
much more for us than we as vet
permit her to do. through doing a
little more for her. If she, with the
care We might well bestow on her,
and the feeds we raise in profusion
unsurpassed anywhere else on earth,
can yield us milk containing 200 to
300 pounds of butter fat in a year, it
is folly well-nigh wicked to be
satisfied with a yield only half so
great; if by churning her cream with
brains the product will sell for III
instead of 6 cents per pound, or 20
cents instead of 10 cents, we owe it
to our selves to put in the requisite
brains. Here and there men are
doing this and whenever and who
ever they are they have money, their
conditions are improving and they
are not talking of emigrsting.
''They are here to stay, and viii
build up the country by building up
themselves. "Free coinage, 16 to
L." will be the medium; free coinage
of golden butter and cheese, at the
ratio. of is ounces to the pound.
The people of Dickinson county more
than those of any other in the State
have caught the inspiration, as the
assessors returns show 81 per cent
more milk COWS here than its close
competitor in dairying has, and a !
dairy output of 24a per cent greater
in value the past year than any other
county in Kansas. Furthermore.
while there has been a slight decrease
in the number of COWS probably
gone to do missionary work else
where) the value of the counhy's COW
products, in spite of falling prices,
has shown an increase of about
s110, 900 or IS per cent.
Neither crop failures nor the
Crime Of 73' have prevented the
COW owners of this county from
jingling in their pockets more than a
quarter million of good 100 cent
dollars received for milk during
these 365 days of depression. I am
loyal enough to Kansas and to those
who have been my fellow citizens
during all the years of my manhood
to maintain that any good thing in
an agricultural way that the Danes
can do in Denmark, the Canadians
in Canada, or the Norwegians in
can be done in kansas
not only as well but a good deal
better. What Dickinson county is
doing other counties can do, and 1
believe ought to do.
Zone of the most important feat
lres connected with the business of
cow culture is that those who are
properly in it with many or few COWS,
nave money every month in the year.
and are thus able to take the
benefit Of those advantages in
Vulnerable which are always con
fronting cash buyer, and as in
eluding the man whe must
ask for credit until this or that un-
certain crop is grown, harvested, or
marketed.
s'Please do not for a moment infer
hat I wish to encourage all the
people to rush headlong in dairying,
or to many it would only mean a
new brand Of "calamity." Being o
'uccessful dairyman or dairywomen
comes, as a rule, ouly through hav-
ng somewhat of q natural talent in
hat direction, developed by q
gradual process of education and
'atient effort along right lines, which
means growth, or as prefer to call
{, evolution. Those who were born
ired, who lack what the phrenolo-
list calls continuity; who are without I
hat accomplishing patience best
ypi6ed in the average farmers wife;
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