Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-05-04
Dniry Notes.

It great possibilities Many time.
however, the cooperative creamery is
ruined by bad management Perhaps
1t Is unfortunate that the managing
committee is too frequently composed
of men that have a too great regard
for economy. The cooperative cream
cry should have a good manager ana
he will cost money. A poor manager
that is, one without the necessary
training, can be had at much lower
price than can the trained man. yet
it will generally pay to have trained
and experienced man to take charge,
and unless the company or association
Is willing to pay good salary ana
then give the manager a good deal OF
authority, there is little chance of sue
cess.
At what price can milk be soid
wholesale and still return a profit?
This is a question that we would like
to have some of our readers answer.
An eastern paper has been asking
somewhat similar question Of many oil
its readers, and the reports agree IN
saying that when milk is sold at anu
2h cents per quart 1t is losing
transaction. If this is SO then the
farmers that supply much of the sum-
mer milk to New York must certainly
lose heavily, for the summer prices
have in some instances dropped down
to 81 cents per 100 pounds or about
one cent per quart. Even at 81 per
hundred pounds there is little If any
profit in the transaction, when all
things are considered. Conditions IN
the west differ somewhat from those
in the east and We would like to hear
the opinions of western shippers OF
milk.
Foot-and-mouth disease has again
broken out in England after having
been apparently extinct there for
about six years. Reports say that the
situation in one locality there is very
serious, especially as regards cows IN
milk. In single locality over 100
cases have been discovered, and, as
many of the animals were canvales-
cent at the time Of the discovery, 1t is
evident that the diseases had been IN
existence there for long time. The
problem is, how have the six years
been abridged over Have some ami
mails been sick all the time, transmit
ting 1t from one to the other, thus
completing chain, or have the germs
lain dormant in some material or 9TH
err? Whatever the answer may be, 1t
is quite evident that care was not
used to the degree it should have
been. If veterinarian had been called
when the first cow fell sick with some
unknown disease" the thing might
have been nipped in the bud. AS 1t Is,
1t will probably be hard task to cor
raj the diseased cattle, for without
doubt some have gone from the in
fected herds into herds far distant.
American farmers and dairymen
should take the lesson to heart. Con-
tagious diseases can be kept down only
by cleanliness and vigilance.
To the Work Weary Plow Horse.
Alas, poor horse! How few are your
days and how manifold your miseries!
When joyful June time sees your ad-
vent into this sphere Of usefulness"
and the farm boy halls you with de-
light, how suspicious the season, how
fresh the air; but how long and weary
are the hours when mamma Is away
at work and how sweaty she is when
she comes back and you hungrily
suckle at her over-heated udder! How
badly that milk agrees with you, to be
sure! 1t makes your little stomach
ache, and after while you are
ashamed to look at your scattered,
scurfy skin in the pelucid water of the
drinking trough which was washed
out when mamma was a colt. How
proud you are when in the cool dewy
morning you are allowed to accom-
pany your weary parent on trip to
town! But, oh, what a difference
when the noon-hour comes! Your
poor little body is all wet with sweat;
the kinks are all gone from your tail
and your baby joints and muscles are
all tired out. What bliss it is when
the kind farmer allows your dam and
you to roam unheeded the pastures
fresh and green and the milk is just
to your taste and full of nourishment.
But how awful it is when the day
comes for you to be separated from
your doting mamma, and soon the cold
snow comes, and you cannot tell folks
just how fearfully 1t hurts your ten
der gums to chew those frozen, flint
like ears of corn and how difficult it
is to swallow that rusty straw, woody
fodder and wirey hay. How terribly
the billiards. blow in at the cracks
and crevices of the old tumbledown
shed in which you are sheltered and
how the ice water chills your young
blood until with all these varied trials
it is little wonder that in spring you
look like shadow and envy the Jer-
sey heifer that has been well fed all
winter because it is going to be a
money winner soon while you have
Just to struggle up any old way.
And so it goes from year to year
until, at last, they break" you to work