The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-02-21

The recent rise in the prices OF feed
stuffs has played havoc with the maxi
ers of milk who are bound by con-
tract price says The Breeders Gazette,
1t is reported from one of the dairy
districts near Chicago that loss of
nearly So cents a can is now suffered
by the farmers who contracted their
milk for the winter at S1.15 per can, as
fixed by the Milk Shippers union. The
ayocation of meat and milk making
does not ordinarily afford enough profit
one year with another to enable It's
followers to recoup the loss of one sea-
son with the profits of a previous or
subsequent season. The price of living
had been forced down to so low ba-
sis in cities that the farmer worked on
q very small margin of profit, and
hence a marked advance in the cost OF
his feedstuffs unaccompanieG by cor
responding rise in the price of his mar
keted products cuts close to the bone.
Relief is possible only through an adj
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 I'M
favorable crop season. In year or
great prosperity the merchant and the
manufacturer can generally lay by a
surplus against a season Of dull trade,
but the American farmer has for years
been working on so close a margin that
he has not been able to do this except
in cases which may properly be termed
exceptional considering the vast num-
Der in which the opposite is true. No
reason exists why city people, with in
creased incomes consequent upon the
prosperity that is so general in bust
ness circles, should fatten on the farm
er's loss. They have had cheap milk
and cheap meat, and it will not hurt
them at the present time to enlarge
their appropriations for these necessi-
ties of life:
The Poor Cow.
Feeding the poor is only collateral to
wasting fodder in the field, and as it
is a business axiom that the first loss is
always the best it is likely wiser to
lose the fodder directly than lose it
| through an improbable animal after
| having added the cost of hauling and
| feeding, says W. F. McSparrow in Ma
| tiOnal Stockman. The COW adds no
| manurial value to the fodder This is the
| cow also for which no man can afford
| to buy commercial feeds. She is the
| loves labor lost of the dairy. She is
part of the undertOw to the farm. She
is more of drain on the farm than the
everlasting manure pile out under the
rain drip" She steals the farmers Ia
Dor and his hope The much maligned
mortgage is insignificant by her side.
She drives the boy from the farm and
makes the girls shy of farmer boys
matrimonially inclined. Verify, she is
a fifteen dollar animal using twenty
| five dollar feed.
Keep Things Clean.
You don't know unless you have
tried it how it increases a common
| cows self respect and incidentally her
| milk yield to have a clean, sweet sta
! BILE to walk into night and morning, to
be turned into pasture with succulent
| feed up to her eyes and with plenty Of
pure, cool water to drink, to see the
shepherd dog chained up instead Of
| swapping at her heels and to receive
gentle words rather than kicks and
have the atmosphere free from cuss
| words at milking time.
Kindness That Pays.
In order that cow may give the
| greatest quantity of the richest milk
| it is necessary that she should be sub
| jected to gentle treatment, never be
| bounded by dogs, never struck with
/ sticks never even he ROUGHLY Snnlz en-