The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-22
SELL PORTO RICO BUTTER
THAT Is THE HOPE OF AMER
ICA'S DAIRYMEN
The Island Formerly Imported Large
Quantities of American Dairy
Products, but During the Later
Years of Spanish Rule the Amount
Has Greatly Decreased-News of
the Butter and Cheese Makers,

Just now the rich island Of Porto
Rico is receiving no little share Of the
attention of the American people, and
as prospective possession it is doubly
interesting to all Americans. In view of
the recent events of the war. the fol-
lowing facts, culled from a bulletin re-
Gently issued by the department of ag-
riculture, are pertinent as a basis for
comparison in our future trade with
the island:
"Our exports Of dairy products to
Porto Rico declined during the decade.
The average annual shipment of butter
fell from 1929 pounds, worth $15,321,
1SS8-1S92, to 72,1 4 pounds, worth S1O-
900 in 1S93-1S97, and the average annual
shipments Of cheese for the same Pc
RODS from 192,S97, valued at $23,539, to
90,528 pounds, valued at $10,S59. The
exports Of milk, although of little i'm
portance. increased considerably in the
last few years, the average yearly val
uation for 1S931S97 amounting to 1856,
as compared with only SLIT for the pre-
annum Of the three items, butter,
cheese and milk, which averaged as
nigh as $SS,037 a year during 1SS8-1S92,
Tell to S2l, 605 year during 1S93-1S97."
One needs not the gift of prophecy to
suggest that within the next few years
there will be a tremendous stimulation
Of Porto Rican trade in our butter and
cheese. These products will be promi-
nent factors among those agencies we
shall carry to the Antilles with the
purpose of giving their people more ad-
vanced civilization
A COW giving a large quantity of
milk has been slaughtered and every
drop Of milk has been gathered up, and
the largest amount ever found was
about four quarts; hence milk is largely
made during the time of milking and
the COW must be placed under favor
able conditions at the time or you do
not get the regular quantity Of milk
Do not think that the milk is already
there, and all you have to do is to
draw 1t out. Only a small portion is
in this state. Most Of it is there ready
to be changed into milk, but 1t is not
milk, and we must have things favor
able for the COW to make this change.
A tin or galvanized pail is better to
feed calves in than wood. 1t is lighter
and easier to handle, may be kept clean
with much less work, and when one
wishes to warm the milk it may be
poured into the pail and set on the
back of the stove until warm enough.
r. A. Pearson, of the United States
department of agriculture, is inspect
ing some of the cheese factories CT
Wisconsin.
There is a great difference in COWS
as g dairy machine. The one which
gives 5000 pounds Of milk year brings
her owrer no profit. The cow which
gives 5000 pounds year. ON the other
hand, is q paying machine. In Min
rosetta he has observed that the farmer
who keeps the 3,000-pound COW don't
believe in agricultural professors. while
the man who has the 6,000-pound COW
has good deal Of faith in them.
A man who has an intelligent under
standing Of cows can, from a hasty in
epection, tell the value Of a COW.
Growing food of the right kind and
plenty Of sufficient food are essentials
to success in dairying.-Prof Thos.
Shaw.
"To relieve a choked cow" says a
correspondent to the Farm and Home,
stand her inclined down hill; then
with a barn shovel give her severe
blow behind. The sudden shove for
ward and gasp will often throw the
obstruction from the throat"
Always confine COWS in the stable To
be MIXED. 1t is better than to have
them chase one another around in the
yard. There should always be a, friend
ly feeling between the COW aud the
mixer, and mixers should not be
changed If it can be avoided.
Sales OF butter on the Elgin board Of
1aue die averaging over nall a million
pounds per week.
Do not attempt to milk too many
COWS at one sitting. The prolonged
strain involved tires the muscles of the
hands and arms. making it difficult to
empty the udGers Of tie last COWS m TX
ed.
The sale of butter and cheese is not
the only source of profit in dairying
Eairying conserves the fertility of the
soil, as the proper handling of the ma
nure returns to the farm nearly half
the. actual value of the food consumed.
A writer In Hoard's Dairyman says
the firm of French Bros, at Cincinnati,
sci! at retail daily $500 gallons of milk,
300 gallons of ice cream, and the entire
butter output of six creameries of
Southern Wisconsin,
The average waste of handling milk
at the New Jersey experiment station