Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-04-17
WHAT CREAMERIEs DO.

WHAT CREAMERIES DO.
Pays Mortgages, Builds Houses and Barns
and Brings Back Roses to Wits
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A Minnesota farmer writing to the
Minot Reporter says:
I am glad to know you are favor
ing the building Of a creamery at
Minot and as I have had many years
of experience in dai1ying and pro-
noting dairy interests and as I have
a homestead there and expect in the
near future to become a permanent
resident Of that country, a word from
me might not be out of place. Ward
county is destined to be an agricul-
tural country, growing large herds of
cattle o. public lands most. Some
give way to other and not less prof.
table enterprises. The business of
raising cattle has, I concede, been
very profitable to the individual en-
gagged in it but what has it done for
the country? Has it built houses
and barns and fences and otherwise
improved the country, are school
houses and churches in evidence2 In
short has the country been in any
sense or to any purpose improved by
it? Are even the individuals en-
gagged in it made better? No one, can
constantly come in contact with
domestic animals, in the matter of
feeding, handling and caring for
them without being made better, but
growing animals exclusively for the
block is not az ennobling calling and
the man or woman who can see in the
noble animals around them nothing
but dollars and cents IS certainly in
a pitiable condition.
/. The same objections that exists as
to exclusive stock raising also apply
to exclusive wheat growing, neither
of which ever has OF ave will devel-
op and improve a country. The
writer has watched the progress and
development of some of the greatest
wheat countries the world has ever
seen and I can say in all candor that
no agricultural country on the face of
the earth has aver shown any consid-
cradle evidence of thrift until the cow
stepped in there in all her glory.
Now in the matter Of a creamery
at Minor there are several things to
be considered. The first and most
important point is to start right. To
start wrong is fatal and to resurrect
and resusticate a defunct creamery is
one of the most difficult things I ever
yet undertook. Again to build a
creamery and depend on farmers
hauling milk every day, I fear would
not be a success in that country at
the present time. There are too
many objections to running a cream
cry in that way. That plan served
in it's day a good purpose but the on
ward march of prorgess has proven
that there are other and better
methods Of handling milk. 1 refer to
the separator. The old way proved a
most prolific cause of. disease among
cattle, the milk being all put into one
large vat or tank and hauled cut to
the patrons to be fed to the calves, it
reached the farm in a putrid condi-
ton, unfit wen to feed a hog. If
there was one diseased COW in the
unity, every calf got a portion of that
diseased milk, and it was not to be
wondered at that so many herds
suffered from tuberculosis. Another
and serious objection to the old plan
was found in the inferiority of the
milk as it came from the creamery
and the cavles grown on it were gen.
eraly inferior. Not so with calves
raised on hand separated milk. l
can make just as good calves on sweet
skinned milk fed fresh from the
separator as can be raised by letting
the calves run with the cows and ex-
periments have proved that the calves
raised on separator milk make better
yearlings and two y%ear-olds. Let us
by all means have a creamery at
Minot. Give the cow a chance my
farmer friend and she will pay the
mortgage on your farm, build your
houses and barns, drive away the
} haunting fear Of sherifs, bring back
the roses to. the care worn cheeks OF
your wife, bring contentment and
happiness to your children and make
you a better and happier a
Respectfully,
r. L. Calkins,
: Menahga, MINI.