The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-08-21
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Cream Puffs

Cream Puffs y
Here's q communication from q Jer-
Iuld county farmer to the Washington
Republican:
To the Farmers of Jeraull county:
l noticed in the Republican what the
Of Brule county received for
June milk at the Kimball creamery.
Now | want to state that the farmers OF
Pennsylvania only received SOC. per
hundred for their June milk. l would
state that If they cnn make dairying pay
in the keystone state with their high
priced land, we here in South Dakota
can surely do so with our low price land
aud the richest grass in the world.
They, with their grain fed COWS could
not compete with us with I'LL native
grass. 1t is time that we farmers 'are
up and doing" We must lend a hand
to raise Our grand young state, as she
cannot do it without our assistance.
There is no use Of growing at the
country. South Dakota is all right. but
We must get into the business for which
she is intended, and we can prosper here
as we'll as in the eastern states.
SAM HOFFMAN.
This is a point we have tried to i'm
ptess upon the farmers of this county
successfully in most instances, but pos.
sibly only partially 80 in others. 1t is
q fact that the Kimball creamery not
only pays more for milk than the major
ity'of South Dakota creameries, but as
much as most creameries in the eastern
states. and despite our disadvantage in
the matter Of freight on coal, tubs, salt
and ieverything consumed in the factory.
together with a greater expense to get
our butter to the seaboard. We have, / n
proof of this, published from time to
time statements Of large and successful
creameries in other states and have at
all times on our desk. for inspection,
monthly reports Of creameries from
Maine to California without number.
But the chief trouble in making these
figures count in adding tothe popularity
and success of the creamery business In
this state is in our poor mich cows.
The South Dakota farmer who reads
of what another farmer is doing in Iowa
or Minnesota or Illinois with his COWS
and q creamery often finds that even
though his W creamery pays him as
much per hundred as the eastern cream
cry pays his income per COW is not more
than one-half as much, and instead oil
properly tracing the difference where il
belongs, either thinks by some crook OF
hook he is being beat by the creamery OF
that the business is not what it is
cracked up to be. The simple fact tina
his neighbor may be obtaining twice a!
much from the anne number of cow
and a corresponding check from the
creamery Is proof enough that his de
auctions are all wrong. There are cows
and cows, and a farmer who has gathered
about him a herd of COWS for the sole
purpose Of raising steers cannot expect
the me returns as a farmer who ha
tax en- pains to deyelope the milking
quality of his COWS along with his cal
raising and when buying has selected
his COWS to that end. We are not un
mindful of the fact that stock raising
is yet a new business with a large mum
Der Of farmers and the dairying ant
creamery business even more so. 1t il
3 not to be expected, therefore, that man,
t have just the cows they desire. TIL
. point we wish to make is thai brough
out by the Jerauld county farmer: dom
blame the country. South Dakota is al
, right and so are the creameries. 1t
possible and practical for the South Da
kota farmer to own and raise as 6nt
cows combining the beef and milking
qualities as any man and to breed AM
raise them at a cost very much les
: than Can be done anywhere else. If tn,
creamery business is profitable to tn,
eastern farmer it must be even more ST
here. 1t is a business upou which
aronths, hot winds and the trials o
grain raising have but little, if any,, eff
feet. Meanwhile let the patrons of tn,
creameries do the hest they can with
the cows they have, improving theil
herds as rapidly as time and their means
will permit. The creameries are doine
their share in bringing this about, and
at the price most Of them are paying
for milk the South Dakota farmer i.
making more money. twice over, thar
the dairymen in any other state. II
their cows do not Yield quite so much
milk they a keep three to the othel
mans n at the same expense ant
raise three calves to his one at even a les;
porportionate cost. Allin all our farmers
should have no kick coming. They will
never see the day they will regret the
coming of the creamery. Before they
scarcely realize it they will have gath
cred about them a bunch OF cow the
envy Ct the eastern dairyman, the pride
Of the stock raiser and a nucleus for an
independence exclusive grain raising
has so long denied them.