The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-04-05

parties from 81 500 to g. 900 for doing
What they could do for themselves.
But in spite of thee repeated warnings
and kindly suggestions a click tongued
fellow comes into a neighborhood and
induces thirty or forty mon to subscribe
one or two hundred dollars each to build
a creamery and does iT with less trouble
than I would have in getting these
same men to subscribe 81 for a years
subscription to scme good agricultural
paper. I am not charging these com
panies who deal in creamery supplies
and who are chief instigators in the
work, with dishonesty they fill their
part Of the contract to the letter. The
man vino works up the deal and in
duces the farmsr to part with his hard
earned cash in a scheme with failure a
certainty from the start by misrepre-
sentation, may be doing wrong, but the
farmers who bite are themselves to
Olame in the end.
There is no good reason why a man
with only sense enough to come in out
Of the rain without being told being
ignorant Of these things, yet I will give
the folio wing rules for building a CO.
operative creamery, without the ex-
pensive help of a creamery agent.
First look yer the ground and ascer
tain how many COWS can be pledged
tor Rt least Two years, IN q radius OF
three miles from where the plant is to
be located Remember this is the most
important point, and the one invariably
overlooked by the creamery promoter.
Milk is what we must nave and the
COW Is the only animal that Celebrates
this fluid pure and unadulter Ated. Re-
member that as far as the running ex,
penses Of a creamery are concerned
the expense Of making the butter from
400 COWS is not much greater than for
half this number, SO let me say again,
be sure of your COWS first. II satisfied
that you cannot get milk enough, go to
work and educate farmers up to the
point, so they will get. the COWS. Ny
observation is that as q rule where
there are not COWS enough to make at
least a partial success from the start
the project will be a failure. Assured
that there are COWS enough pledged TO
make a success, call a meeting, ralse
the necessary funds, elect officers, find
out just what you want, advertise for
bids to build and equip the build, hire
q good butter maker, urge members
and patrons to read dairy literature,
strive to make it a success, talk dairy
and practice the best methods you
know or can learn of.
Wherever grass and feed will grow
dairying can be made successful. Some
people have an idea that dairying can
be carried on successfully only in Ger
tain localities, and this idea has a great
deal to do with lack Of dairy interest
in some of these Western States. l
have had experience in dairying in
what is noted as dairy region in Ohio,
and was told by many when we came
to Kansas that we could not make a
success of it here. But we have Gem
onstrated to our satisfaction that it can
be done. In fact we make moro money
out Of our dairy than we ever did in
the East, and it seems strange to me
that with all the advantages farmers
have here they will continue to raise
grain to be shipped to Eastern States
to be made into butter by dairymen
there. Strange but true that grain
raised in Kansas finds it's way to far
off Denmark to be manufactured into
butter there, shipped back to England.
Why not feed the grain to COWS here's
Sure enough, why not7
M. e KING.
Labete Co., Kan.