The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-01-03

ming in Orange county, New York, it
has moved steadily westward on al
most a direct line. centering for a time
in the Elgin district, but gradually
moving westward. The farmer in this
belt or district Who makes dairy
ing his chief business and. contin-
ues to do SO regardless of the varying
and tempting prices Of other farm
products, will unquestionably find that
he has accumulated more wealth in the
end.
There seems to be three methods used
in handling n marketing milk prod
ucts, of which the Oldest, least profit.
able, most extravagant n attended
by most work is that system Of setting
the milk in crooks, pans or cans and
making the butter from the cream at
home, and then selling or trading it to
the stores for from 5 to 10 cents a
pound less than the cream would bring
at a creamery. Besides from his inn
perfect method about SO pounds Of but
ter per COW IS lost each year by leaving;
that amount Of butter faith the skim
milk. Tests have shown this to be an
absolute fact, and no farmer can af-
ford to pursue this method, which, fig
uring the loss Of butter fat in the
skim milk, together with the low prices
secured for the butter, will lose aim
from $100 to $500 a year on five or more
cows, according to the number he
keeps.
The second method is somewhat more
profitable, which Is that of hauling the
whole milk to The creamery. But a
number have been compelled to discon-
tinue this method because of living too
far from the creamery, or in some cases
their creamery has been closed from
lack Of patronage or mttsmanagenrent.
But their most serious objection is that
~ rnof hn1rer q h1n- toE 0h{ M otfrPno{Nr
results in raising calves on the our
SKINNED milk that the creameries are
sometimes Obliged to return. They also
object to the loss of time of the team
and driver hauling the same during the
busy season on the farm.
But even with these objections this
method is considerably more profitable
than the first.
The latest, n what seems to be the
most profitable, as It possesses. the good
features Of the second-that of selling
to the creamery-is to have a hand
cream separator skim the milk on the
farm. In this way you can raise every
calf, as the warm skinned milk
(skimmed as soon as 1t is milked)
In this way for the first six months
will not look as plump as one that
runs with the COW, but it Will show
up as a yearling as well, and sometimes
better, as the hand fed calf learns to
eat rough feed quicker than the one
that runs with its mother. This being
the case, 1t is easily seen that nc farm
er can afford to lose from $500 to $1,000
a year, this being the amount Of cream
that ten to thirty calves would consume
by running with their mothers, as the
cream from 10 to 80 good cows will
sell for that amount atsthe creamery.
With the hand separation 1t will also
require less zine to deliver to the
creamery. and should there not be a
creamery In operation in your vicinity
creamery.
The self binder. corn harvester, stock
shredder, check rover and other up to
date farm Haachinery have not been
with us sosfcng butSsthat the farmer
now using them8can remember asking
himself the question, viii 1T me
to buy ns2" VIII Isl yourself the
name question regarding the hand