The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-08-16


The recent rise in the prices Of feed
stuffs has played havoc with the max.
trs of milk who are bound by a con-
tract price, says The Breeders Gazette.
II is reported from one of the dairy
districts near Chicago that n loss of
nearly 30 cents can is now suffered
| by the farmers who contracted their
milk for the winter at S115 per can, as
fixed by the Milk shippers union. The
nvocation Of meat and milk making
does not ordinarily afford enough profit
pne year with another to enable its
followers to recoup the loss of one seat
son with the profits of previous or
subsequent season. The price of living
had been forced down to so low ba-
sis in cities that the farmer worked on
1 very small margin OF profit, and
hence marked advance I'm the cost OF
his feedstuffs unacCompanied by a cor.
responding rise In the price OF his mar
keted products cuts close to the bone.
Relief is possible only through an ad- |
vance In price to the consumer, and it |
should be promptly made. City people |
are for the most part sufficiently pros
porous to share with the farmer the |
loss resultant from an abnormally un-
favorable crop season. In n year OF |
great prosperity the merchant and the
manufacturer can generally lay by
surplus against a season of dull trade
but the American farmer has for years
been working on 80 close margin that
he has not been able To do this except
In cases which may properly he termed
exceptional considering the vast mum.
Der in which the opposite is true. No
reason exists why city people, with in.
creased incomes consequent upon the
that Is so general I'm bust
ness circles, should fatten on the farm.
er's loss They have had cheap milk
and cheap meat, and Il will not hurt
them at the present time to enlarge
their appropriations for these necessi.
ties OF life.
The Poor COW.
Feeding the poor IL only collateral to
wasting fodder ip che field, and as It
/
always the best II Is likely wls,. to
lose the fodder directly than lose Il
through an unproht0ble animal after
having added the cost OF hauling and
feeding, says W. +. McSparrow In Ma
IlOnal StOckman The COW adds po
value to the fodder. This Is the
'ow also for which no man can afford
=. al la ha /
owes labor lost OF the dairy. she Is
lnrt Of the undcrtow TO the farm. She
= more of q drain on the farm than the
everlasting manure pile out under the
ain drip" She steals the farmers la.
lOr and his hope. The Dluch maligned
mortgage is inslgniticnu, by her side.
She drives the boy from the farm and
makes the girls shy OF farmer boys
inclined. Verify. she is
fifteen dollar animal using twenty
i've dollar feed.
Keep Things Clean,
You don't know unless you have
rled II how Il Increases common
ow's self respect and incidentally her
milk yield 70 have clean, sweet sta.
'le TO walk Into night aud morning. 10
" turned into pasture with succulent
eed up TO her eyes and with plenty OF
'ure, cool water TO drink. 10 see the
hcpherd dog chained up instead OF
at her heels and 10 receive
,entle words rather than kicks aud
ave the atmosphere free from cuss
words at milking time.
Kindness That Pays.
I'm order that COW may give the
,reatest quantity Of the richest milk a
I Is necessary that she should be sub V
ected 10 gentle treatment never be II
founded by dogs, never struck with b
ticks, never even be- roughly spoken n
0, but petted and made much OF ns far =
= possible. /.