The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-09-26
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DAIRY

The scarcity of low grade butter is
constant topic for remark in all butter
markets. The indications are that this
will be somewhat permanent feature.
and it must be taken into account III
all CUR plans, says Creamery Journal.
Low grade butter is made by the poor
est class of dairymen. 1t pays the
least, and the makers of it are the soon
est discouraged and driven out Of bust
ness. Thousands Of steer calf farm
ers have been forced to exc out liv-
the COWS, and now that beef is high
they have quit. They never were in
the business as q business, but as
passing necessity.
And the broadening Of the creamery
industry and the introduction of farm
separators have opened up a market
for great quantities Of cream which
before was churned into poor butter at
home and is now made into present
able commercial butter in the cream
cries. The general output of creamery
butter is not greater, but the shrink
age is greater relatively in farm but
ter, and last, but not least, is the es-
adjustment of process factories. Much
poor butter is processed before it gets
to the great butter centers, SO the usu-
al butter markets are short in this line.
On this account spectators have to
keep q weather eye on the cheaper
grades, and the speculative demand al
ways cuts some figure in making the
prices. A general scarcity holds up
all grades, and surplus Of the lower
grade gluts the market and switches
consumption away from the better
grade by bargain counter prices on the
overstOcked grade. Creameries and
process factories will largely control
the price of all butter from this time
onward, and particularly so if the oleo
crowd can be held to a legitimate bust
ness.
On High Priced Land.
Dairying and truck farming are
about the only classes of farming that
can be successfully conducted on the
high priced lands in many sections,
says an exchange. We do not often
find the owner or renter of land val
ued at 500 or $3.50 per acre depending
on corn, hogs or beef for his income,
but we find the dairyman doing bust
ness on land valued at these high
prices. If the dairyman can make a
profit on land so high priced that the
beef man cannot do business, how
much more profitable would it be on
land so low in price that the beef man
can afford to farm it!
Sugar Beet Pulp For Cows.
A publication of the department Of
agriculture says: Professor Thomas
Shaw expresses his belief that sugar
beet pulp can be fed more advanta-
geously to cattle and sheep that are
being fattened than to dairy COWS. The
New York Cornell experiment station
however, found that this material gave
good results with milk COWS, the dry
matter (solids) in it being about equal
in value to that in corn silage. Ger
man experiments with beet pulp for
COWS have also given good results, the
flow Of milk being maintained in a sat
isfactory manner. Some Danish ex-
periments have shown that as COM
pared with mangels the butter pro-
duced on sugar beet pulp was about
equal in quality and kept fully as we'll
Where large quantities Of the pulp
were fed the cream required to be
churned few minutes longer.
Nebraska's Dairy Business.
A report from Lincoln, Neb., states
that one creamery company in that
city paid to farmers $4,000 for butter
fat during the month of June, and
about 100000 was paid for butter fat
by the various creameries in the state.
The dairy business of Nebraska is
growing very rapidly, and the increase
is attributed chiefly to the use of hand
separators on the farms.
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