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

6ue pracGlce or the older daIrylrR
methods, is made and marketed at an
actual loss 10 the maker.
The book fairly teens with pra ctical
facts and epigrammatical expressions
appealing to the dairy farmer, as for
instance:
1T should not be assumed that dairy.
ing is being overdone and soon likely
to become unprcfitable. The contrary
is the case. The home consumption of
dairy products, particularly with
greater industrial prosperity, is largely
increasing from year to year The
European markets for these American
prod ucts are only now being fairly
opened up. The exports, which are as
yet email, will within a few years
amount to one third Of the total pro
duction, not only RffordiDg a suficient
market, but insuring the maintenance
Of pr ices"
Farm dairyipg communities are
every where among the most prosper
Gus, intelligent, and progressive in the
country"
Modern dairy farming is just as
much a busine ss as any other CONNER
cial or manufacturing undertaking 1t
eff )rGs the same oppor tunities. In a
practical sense it is a manufacturing
busipe The land, the feed, and the
degree OF care used are the dairy far
mer's raw materials. The COW, the
cream separator, churn, butter worker,
cans, coolers, and other utensils are
his tools and machinery. The sale Of
the milk, cream, or butter is the mar
keting Of his product The prosperity
of his business is largely Of his own
making, just as is that Of any other"
''The tremendous advance in dairy
ing practice within the past fifteen
years has 80 revolutioniz3d dairyiDg
methods about every five years durir z
such period, that it is ne necessRTy, in or
der to be pro Fl .abIe, that dairying
keep apace with advanced ccnditiOne.
Dairying upon the lines OF fifteen years
ago is now a losing occupation. Dairy
y
ago now does we'll 10 make ents meet
Profitable dairying of to day must be
up to date and be kept So"
THE selection Of the practical dairy
cow of to-day is not 80 mucha a question
of particular breed as Of individual p-o
pre- ductiveness. Tais will be found to
vary in every herd OF every breed In
breeding it is an established maxim
that The bull is half the herd TIE
bull should always be pure bred and
selected from a family from which the
COWS are of established dairy e1 cel
lepce."
Cheese making in the United States
has not held its own in dair YiDg ad
vRncement, as compared with other
ways of marketing dairy products 1t
ia questionable if cheese factory pat
ronage has been a practical form OF
dairyiDg in other than but very few
localities for several years. In nearly
al, sections it has been relatively
profitable but for short season at most.
Il is seldom practical unless there is
some other means available OF utilizing
the milk probably during the seasons
when such is not the case in it's cheese
factory sale"
The success of the creamery business,
like that of any other, depends on good
manage rngnt The creamery patron
must understand that this conce ms
him, since he is not going 60 receive
more for his milk than the creamery
management makes out of it in it's con
version into butter and marketing"
''It is undoubtedly fact that any
one practicing dairying to-day, on
however big or little scale, by the en-
ployment Of one of the older gravity
methods Of cream raising without the
help OF ice or cold water, is doing 30 at
so great loss in skimming at all times,
and in quality Of product good part
of the time, that profi5 is simply i'm
possible. Still, thousands are blindly
pursuing such a system"
Hardly any point is Of greater i'm
portance in successful dairy butter
making than marketip g the product in
business like mauuer. Tais naturally
begins with the packing of it. Appear.
ance counts for a great deal in market
ing butter, as in everything else."
While the purpose Of its distribution
is no doubt an advertising one, in a
considerable degree, there is much
that is commendable in the little book,
and We think it bears out the introduc
tory statement that it is dedicated to
every nwner of q COW in the hope that