The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-10-17

we nave bh4k0O VI OSOPOA0HASU
dairying until we have feared people
would think we knew nothing else to
talk about. But again we must reiter-
{ in print that we believe there is not
q county In North Carolina in which
co operative dairying cannot be made
a profitable business by the farmers OF
the county, and that the town in which
such business is started can show in a
few years a general advance over
other towns because Of the dairy bust
ness. We have given an example OF
how it will effect a North Carolina
farm by the past eight, or rather OF
about seven, years of dairy farming at
the farm Of the North Carolina Expert
ment Station adj ,ining and tapping
over part of the State Fair grounds
more than half its extent on it's eastern
side.
Every visitor at the Safe Fair sees
the farm buildings and fields, and may
walk over and view them at his leis
ure. He can look up the records made
there and published in the Station bull
letins. Crops have been increased,
double crops made and marketed on
the farm. There has not been a very
large profit shown per COW when some
of the COWS have failed to pay the
prices for all the food consumed, but
country COWS do not have to pay city
prices for feed any more than they get
them, but they do, or can pay enough
for the crops to make the home mar
ket the profitable one. And if you are q
practical farmer you will see the COWS
have done very we'll, as customers for
farm produce, if they have not all set
tied at full price for what they had.
We will notice this later. II you,
reader, have not seen the bulletin rec
ords, look them up, and assure your
self that the crops sold to mich CO ws
we're we'll marketed. This was done at
home, and there was no time spent in
hauling to town or elsewhere.
Now if one can feed and sell crops
this way he is doing good business, but
be must sell something to make the in
come, and that something is animal
products.
He need not go into retailing direct
IL, but can make sales through the
medium Of a cooperative plant which
need not be expensive, and in which a
email per cent. on the investment can
be made. 90 operation in carrying is
not new or untried. It is only new to
US It has been the mainstay Of many
a community in the North for nearly
fifty years. 1t was in practice in 8 wit
zerland nearly two hundred years ago,
and has proved Of service to those
who give it fair trial.
The organic alton is simple. Agree
ments are entered into and kept. A
meeting Of those who propcso to Co
operate as promoters, is followed by
adoption Of O set of rules to govern the
business Of the nee and officers
elected. These Directors, President,
Secretary and Treasurer are the bust
nass managers. A sum of money is
subscribed usually proportional to the
number OF COWS each man keeps to
supply milk for the business. Readers
will find an article in the first volume
of Tue Dixie Dairyman giving q history
Of one organic alton. The details are
there we'll shown. II can be started on
as large or small a scale as suits the
convenience Of the corporators, but
should not contemplate the use Of less
than 300 go1d COWS. Three hundred or
more would be better and pay where
300 or $50 might be much less success
full. It is an easy matter to increase
stock after getting starred; for instance
one agrees IN five COWS, he could in a
few months add one or two more, or if
Is are doing well, five more will be as
easily added by heifers grown up as r
the one or two by the owner of the
FIVE.
Suppose We count up and find fifteen
men present who propose to keep from
five to fifty COWS averaging twenty
CO VS. each. This will give three hun
dred. Each man will fit up to care for
the COWS and furnish cans to take the
milk to the factory. Each will sub
scribe 81 50 for each COW kept to build
and equip the plant. The apparatus is
purchased Rud placed as soon as pos
sible by the seer 5tary or business man
agsr, and as Eoon as ready for milk the
promoters VINO are o stockholders,
or as more often called, patrons, bring
the milk. This can often be done by
one man on a road bringing in the milk
from several farms either for pay or