The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-10

The recent rise in, the prices Of feed
stuffs has played havoc with the max
ers of milk who are. bound by a con-
tract price, says The Breeders Gazette.
1T is reported from one Of the dairy
districts near Chicago that loss of
nearly 80 cents can lis now suffered
by the farmers who contracted their
milk for the winter at $1i15 per can, as
fixed by the Milk Shippers union. The
avocation 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
h very small margin of profit, and
hence marked advance in the cost of
his feedstuffs unaccompanied by cor.
responding rise in the price Of. his mar
keted products cuts close to the bone.
Relief is possible only through an adj
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 a year OF
great prosperity the merchant and the
manufacturer can generally lay by
surplus against season OF dull trade.
but the American farmer has for;years
been working on so close margin that
be has not been able to do this except
In cases which may properly be 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
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 1T
is business axiom that the first loss Is
always the best it is likely wiser to
lose the fodder directly than lose 1T
through an Improbable animal after
having added the cost of hauling and
feeding, says w. +. McSparrow in MAJ
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 la
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, lis
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 clean,' sweet sta
BILE to walk into night and morning, to
be turned into pasture with succuleht
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. ."
Iii order that COW may give the
greatest quantity of the richest milk
1t il necessary that she should be SUBJ
jected to gentle treatment, never be
bounded by dogs, never struck with
sticks, never even be roughly spoken
to. but petted and made much of as far
as possible. -