The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-05-27
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them of my new occupation but never
asking them personally for their pat
ronage. Igot it however, and by Jan
nary LIST I was selling the milk from
u COWS; got a neat delivery wagon,
full assortment of glass jars and was
interested in my work; figured OF the
cost of everything. / began to look
into the cost of production, cost of
delivery, daily waste at the barn, the
milk room and on the wagon. l saw
plainly that my profit must come by
stopping the leaks. From that time
to this I have been stopping the leaks
and I make good money watching for
the waste. l continued to drive the
one wagon until a good trade was es-
tablished in one part of the town, then
got another wagon, giving the first one
to Joe. P. Sanders (who is now man
ager of Hotel Huffman, Greensboro,
N. O.. I taught Joe how to feed cows;
he now feeds the travelling public just
as we'll! I mounted the second wagon
and opened a route In another part of
the city. There I had easy work; my
milk was advertised through the pa
pers and by those who had used it in
other parts of the city. By close and
careful attention tt business the out
put has grown from three pints daily
to the present sales of almost $50 per
day. The first three years I was often
sick, sometimes not able to go out for
several weeks; then it was that l saw
how much help a good wife is to a
man. Ny wife watched the business
and moved it on. She soon got ahead
of me on details and had everything
going smooth; she attended to every
thing at the milk room, giving me my
whole time to be with the COWS and
on the milk wagons. I have learned
that a big ration, fed at regular hours,
is money the large, liberal feed pays
best; a poor or sorry COW must not be
kept; make her fat and sell to the
butcher. The best COWS are those rails
ed on the farm, the best feed is what
we raise and do not pay money for,
and the best milk on the market is
what I must sell. l have found more
profit in milking grade Jerseys than
from any other kind of COWS. Keep a
well bred bull, raise all heifer calves;
when they come to milk select the best
shaped ones and sell others. When /
buy COWS I like a 4-year-old (secOnd
calf by her side), three-quarter or
seven-eighths Jersey blood; if she has
a good, square udder, four teats and
a round body, indicating room to hold
a heavy feed, I can get milk from her.
Common scrub COWS do not pay; a
man cannot afford to keep such. l
buy corn meal, wheat bran and cotton
seed meal; these I feed with all kinds
of forage produced from the farm.
My favorite ration is about like this
for each COW of $50 to 900 pounds:
Six pounds bran, 2 pounds corn meal,
4 pounds cotton seed meal, 80 pounds
silage, with hay, straw, sorghum hay,
pea hay or other forage all they will
eat. made 300 tons of silage in 1901,
corn, soy beans and sorghum being the
crops; corn and beans dropped from
two planters in the same row, plants
s to Is inches apart, rows 312 feet;
cultivate often. Five acres planted as
above, produced enough to fill silo Is
feet in diameter, 26 feet deep. Sor-
ghum mixed with corn and beans as
silo is filed, is, in my opinion, quite
an advantage to the feed. SilOs are
cheap; cost not over $50 each; every
man who feeds ten COWS should have
silage. Crimson clover is a favorite
crop with me and my cows. Sow in
August, feed in April or make into
and raise a silage crop. To hold milk
trade l find that l must be polite, have
good control of temper, feed the COWS
well, groom nicely, milk clean, aerate
and cool before putting in jars, and
serve the patrons regularly, learn their
peculiar wants and notions, and please
them. The milk room must be clean:
cement floors are best; have steam for
heating water and steaming vessels,
employ a good woman who will take
a pride in keeping all vessels sweet
and bright. Ny two oldest boys have
grown up with the calves; both boys
are now men; they have been faithful
helpers to me in building up our bust
ness; they know a COW from nose to