The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-25
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operats This
Department. Of the Farm - A Few
Hints as to the Care Of Live Stock
and. Poultry.


Farm ssparators 10 Kansas.
George Morgan, in an address before
the Kansas State Board of Agriculture.
said in part. The value Of the farm
separator to the private dairyman has
been fully demonstrated. The expert
mental stages have passed and the tes-
timony Of all who have made a careful.
intelligent comparison between the
gravity system and the modern sepa-
rator are practically united in favor
OF the latter for the private dairyman.
The question as TO its advantages in
localities where creameries are estab-
lished is one upon which there Is much
difference Of opinion. The most serious
problem is operating expenses. This
applies both to the creamery manager
and to the patron. whether the cream
cry is a cooperative one or a proprie-
tary institution, and all are vitality in
terested in the expense account
think the separator will assist greatly
in solving this problem. II means
minimum Of labor with a maximum Of
profit. The product is carried in con-
densed form from the patron to the
creamery, and the expense greatly re-
duced. In this state, dairying is incl
dental to beef and pork production.
and as a consequence the conditions at
this time are peculiar and perplexing
The farmer has an undesirable way Of
putting the creamery on half rations.
forgetting that few people appreciate
the full dinner pail more than the Kan
sas creamery man. When times and
crops are good, II Is not uncommon to
find a farmer at milking time quietly
sitting upon the fence watching the
calves do the milking. When reverses
come, however he finds that the COW
and the creamery are his best friends.
When large investments are made in
skimming stations and these spells Of
earelessness strike the patron, t is
often very disastrous to the manage
ment feel safe in saying that fully
one-third Of the shimming stations In
this state do not pay running expenses
from October to May. It is in these
localities that the farm separator win
be Of the greatest benefit. II the cream
cry patronage is light. the expenses are
correspondingly light.
think the average cost Of a skim
ming station IS about 1000 and the
average cost OF operating Is about $500
a year. This will. OF course, include /
taxes, interest, insurance. labor and |
fuel A great many plants now run
ming in Kansas do not average 1900 /
pounds Of milk every other day during /
the fall and winter Forty COWS at /
twenty pounds Of milk per day per COW
will produce 1.60O pounds Of milk in
two days. Here, then. is an investment
Of $1,000 with $50 per month running
expenses necessary 10 take care OF the
milk OF forty cows On its face this
cannot pay At points where patron
age is liberal any radical change would
not be advisable. Il will to a great
extent adjust itself in its own way.
but at weaker. non-paying stations
much good can be accomplished by the
use Of the farm separator. especially
IN outlying districts where the distance
Is too great to haul the whole milk,
True, to carry out the plan the farmer
must make the investment on his own
account, but for this he Is amply com
lensated In the increased value OF the
kim milk and the convenience Of hay-
ng it on his farm morning and eve
ling to be fed while warm sweet and
resh and In the best possible condition
or giving to young animals. The milk
iatron often suffers a severe loss on
.ccount OF souring Of his Sunday milk
Turing the heated term. He also loses
he gain BY feeding the new milk 10
he calf for six or eight weeks. on ac-
cunt Of the danger incurred IN feeding
milk returned from the creamery.
Where the milk Is fed from the farm
eparator, the calf can be put upon
kim milk at fifteen days old by care
ll management and the use OF kahr
orn meal It has been my experience
hat patrons with ten TO fifteen cows
an earn enough in one year 20 nav
1r a 500 separator. Each farmer can
gure ont for himself whether or NOT
win pay