The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-02-08
DAIRYING PAYS.

The lsanti county Press has this
to say, which will be read with in
terest by every farmer, and should
inspire some pretty solid reflection:
Given,a few dairy COWS and cream
cry operated by an experienced man,
and the average farmer has source
that is hard to beat. Isanti county
farmers who are within access of the
Cambridge creamery, can all verify
ahis fact aud especially Geo. Mold,
who with herd of fifteen common
dairy cows, received last year $431, Sc.
He delivered 6,572 pounds of milk for
which he received $388.54 and butter
for family use to the amount of $40. O2.
This amount of money averages S2S. II
for each cow for the year, and it must
also be remembered that twenty per
cent. of the milk which Mr.. Mold hauled
TO the creamery yielded this amount,
and there was eighty per cent. of skim
milk which he had to return to his farm
tor feed for hogs, which always prove
so profitable with dairyherd. But
this is not all of the income and the
profit, as there is the calf crop which
for the year probably amounted to
$3.50, and there is the manure for the
land which from a small dairy herd is
OF great value to any farm. s-
This is practical example right at
home, of the value of dairy herd to
farmer. Our creamery though young,
has at present a very good patronage,
and at the present rate of increase it
will not be long before it will have the
business that southern Minnesota
creameries boast of.
Stearns county is far better
adapted by nature to grazing and
pasturage than lsanti county, and
these results there can be increased
here. 1t is not unusual, by proper
selections, to aggregate dairy
herd which will average fifty dol
lars, and even that sum has been
exceeded by fifty per cent. IN the
dairying districts of New York and
Illinois.
Dairying means diversity of
crops,and that's conceded to be the
desired ultimatum in farming. tits
not wise to have all of ones eggs
in one basket. There will be dis
couragements and depression from
time to time in every line of agri-
culture-but never in all lines sim
ultaneously. At present the out
look for cattle products are most
encouraging. The great herds of
the western plains are being broken
up and dispersed by reason of a
rapidly increasing occupation of
lands by actual settlers. Bee is |
high, and will remain so. Butter |
and cheese usually give profitable
returns even when made on the |
farm, and the creamery and cheese
factory on the cooperative plan
will increase such profits. E,-:--.
Again, instead of having but one
source of income which is wholly |
available at one season of the year
in the fall the dairyman re-
ceives his income as he wants it
for use, divided up at frequent in
tervals. This is better for him and
better for the community in which
he does business. At no one seas
on Of the year is there super
abundance of money in circulation,
and at another a great dearth of
that commodity. The farmer will
pay as he goes, purchase cheaper
and in every way be more CON-
Portable and consequently happier.
His time will be fully and evenly
occupied-not overworked at one
season and idle at another; and his
capital, backed by his brain and
his Drawn, will be productive all
the time.