Omaha daily bee., 1900-12-29

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These we'll suggest the Significance Of live
stock and meat production as factors in
Kansas agriculture and Kansas prosperity.
Kansas farmers are learning year by year
that their business. II profitable, must be
ing OF a game . sanAnce with the weather
or a single CROP Those who most fully
recognize these conditions and most intel
ligently respond TO their inexorable require
ments are realizing a fair or large pros
perlty. More attention, therefore, is be-
ing given to a diversity along agricultural
lines, and quite naturally many have taken
to COW culture. Kansas Is admirably suited
to the profitable pursuit OF dairying. On
her productive soils can be raised unlimited
supplies OF the best flesh and milk-pro-
ducing foods at incomparably low cost her
meadows and pastures furnish nutritious
and succulent grasses in abundance and
wide variety, and the winters are shorc
and mild, thereby making long time shelter
ing and expensive indoor feeding and care
less a necessity The corn. Kaffir corn and
other sorghums. alfalfa, clover and grasses
produced here in great profusion, and, with
the brans from our wheat, are in large
measure the ideal cheap raw material for
manufacturing on the farm, by means Of the
COW, commodities that afford ready money
income every month.
Dairying. largely, and methodically con-
ducted, is comparatively n new feature
In the agriculture Of Kansas. Prior to
$780, the systematic production and market
ing OF butter and cheese was given at best
only desultory attention, and those identi-
fed or somewhat familiar with this in
dustry then did not, as rule, esteem the
rotn IF fficia
Importance to warrant the outlay of any
considerable sum Of money for improvement,
and extension along that line
The institution Of skimming stations,
creameries and cheese factories, be-
gun some ten years since, has
from the first pointed out that the use CT
better cattle was we'll nigh imperative to
make the business profitable and at the
| same time secure a product OF superior
quality. Through persistent endeavor to
have dairy herds Of high grades, II not pure
bloods, the farmers and dairymen have been
continually eliminating the more unprot.-
able animals, and statistics for a period or
| Ave years, ending with 1896, show that the
number OF milch cows in the state de-
creased more or less In each OF those years
while this vigorous campaign OF improve
ment was being waged, but the figures also
show that the value OF their product, In
stead Of correspondingly decreasing has
actually increased in three Of the five years
thus making apparent that improvement in
the mlch cows has been most potent
factor in advancing the dairy interests OF
Kansas, and today the state boasts many
excellent, high yielding herds.
The 1900 aggregate value OF butter and
cheese made and milk sold for other pur.
| ha larn H.
history Of the state, being 1913 per cent
more than in the preceding year.
Creameries Are Profitable.
Scores and scores OF creameries at first
established as questionable experiments are
now permanent profitable institutions, ant
produce butter and cheese in increasing
quantities and Of export quality. Admirable
natural roads, passable everywhere
throughout the year, enable the producer
to bring his supplies to the stations or fac
tories regularly. The use Of new and i'm
proved machinery and the presence Of riva
companies with large capital insure cage
acceptance Of the milk and profitable
! cash remuneration each month OF the yea
TO the producer, whether marketing tn
product Of one COW or OF 1000. The mar
kets of the whole country are available tn
year through. modern transportation ant
} refrigerating facilities insuring the. promp
delivery of goods In perfect condition TO
; the dealer or the table To such an exten
is this true that within the past two year
many carloads OF Kansas butter have foun
remunerative demand in transatlantic mar
kets.
Two plants, wonderful for their alread
Proven productiveness and excellence, hav
come into the agriculture Of Kansas within
the past decade and are already so estab
lished in the esteem OF those who kno,
hem best rs to be regarded not simply a
benefactions to the stockgrower. but we'll