Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-12-14

nature would thus be- destroyed.
H. E. ARNOLD,
of the Devils Lake creamery, read
the following paper:
Dairying, [ think, offers better
opportunities than any other
branch of farming. A man rails
ing horses waits four or five years
before he realizes upon his invest
ment, the man in the steer bust
ness has two to three years to live
upon his surplus and one raising
hogs waits six months to a year.
The creamery patron can turn his
money t~hirty-six times while the
cattleman is waiting for his returns.
If at the end Of the month he finds
that the business is not paying as
it should he is in the position to
investigate and change his methods
so that it will.
During the year 1898 the aver
age Kansas COW turned out but
80 pounds of butter, while those
in Wisconsin were credited with
800. Nevertheless, in that year
$4,000 people We're milking $50 1000
COWS and supplying the Kansas
separators with the materials from
which We're made products valued
at eight million dollars. Think of
the COWS kept on those farms
which dragged the average of the
state yield to a. point where they
were kept and fed at a loss of ITO
pounds Of butter per year to each
COW, and think also Of what some
COWS were doing that would make
profit enough that the owners were
content to support the boarders
and remain in the business. How
many COWS are you milking on
your farm and how much milk do
they give, and from it how much
butter can you make? You know
within a reasonable amount what
the bunch taken as a whole are
doing, but are not some living off
the others? If you do not know
the only way to learn is to open an
account with each COW. Hang up
a board back Of each stall and tack
a piece of paper on it, get a pair of
small spring scales and weigh the
milk. If you are feeding grain
weigh a feed of that. You won't
have to DO it but once, as after
that you can measure it. Then
take a sample each day for a week
and bring it to the creamery. You
are now possessed of the data
which will enable you to know
whether it is profitable to keep
certain COWS or not, and if not the
sooner you get rid of them the
more money you will make. To
illustrate: [ brought with me
two Guernsey COWS and a few
heifers, bought in a lump. Of
the COWS [ had the choice Of one
out Of certain two, upon taking
a sample Of the milks to the cream
cry for testing turned out abnor-
mally high, and [ was skeptical,
after a week | got a compost test
running over a number OF days and
got about the same figures. 1
paid forty dollars for the COW and
the owner offered me Sl20. which
was refused. This illustrates the
point brought out above. This
man knew his herd as a whole, but
he did not know them individually
and owing to that lack of know
ledge he lost $S5 on a single
animal. If a COW will make
200 pounds of butter in a year she
will leave 81 pounds for your profit;
one that will make $50 pounds
is worth twice the other, yes, she
is worth more than that, for, if
properly bred she will bear calves
which will produce 800. pounds
per year. These are possible
losses, there are others. Are you
getting all possible out of our
milk? In the usual methods of
gravity Dreaming or setting milk
for the cream to rise, there is a loss
of 20 per cent of the fat, or one
fifth of it. That is a big loss for a
business to stand. It may even
reach higher than that, for, in
COWS which give a large fowof milk
the butter fat globuIes are small
and rise through the milk with
much more difficulty than do those
Of such breeds as Guernsey and
Jerseys. When milk is tested at
the creamery sulphuric acid is
added and the two shaken togeth-
er. The temperature will leave no
doubt but that the acid has done
its work. It is on this test that
the patron is paid. No matter
what the loss is in separation, no
matter what the creamery loses in
the butter milk. that is the cream
ery's lookout and the patron has
nothing to do with it. Churning