Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-10-19
sELLIs ( ak IN MEXICO.
Bessie Is Driven 3 House 10 House and Her Sat
stance y Warm and DIR Ct

DoSSle Is Driven ] House 10 house 2Ee heT ont-
stance = Warm and DIR Ct
Elgin Septes ier 27, butter firm at
Zoe. one year 2ll cents Elgin Oct
ober 3, butter eas last week. 20 cents.
one year ago t-c. eI was 20l cents. The
eastern marke 2 aJe ~ ru ng high and
! there is certa : a. 1- .tu advance on
creamery OotoJ1. 10th.
| Wisconsin Holsteius on eightetn.day
| trip TO Mexico, peGuliarities of the Traffic
A STILES a dsiryman OF Jefferson
county, Wis, writes of the sale of cows
to Mexico dealers interestingly as fol-
| lows. I never realizsd quite as plainly
as did the past week when | met cow
buyer from the capital city of Old Mex
| leo He wished to purchase forty head
OF milch cows TO ship to the far-off conn
! try. a distance Of about 5000 miles. The
| freight on each COW, he told me, is acout
$500 from Chicago, and the time that
the cattle viii be on the cars varies from
fourteen to eighteen days. Cars are the
pa ace cars used by the shippers of race
| horses; each COW has stall by herself
and they are fed " tered and the stables
cleaned exactly as if they were at home,
instead Of being hitched to an engine
and being rushed over the countryat the
rate Of thirty miles an hour" | asked
the shipper how they stood the Journey
and he said that COWS are just like human
beings-some will eat, drink and get fat.
while others will be sick, nervous and
refuse to eat or drink, and it is no un-
common occnrrance for some Of them
to pine away and die before they reach
their destination This is especially true
after they get across the line from Texas
svaA- IL e. H..
Of niles. one sees no vegetable life by
the side of the railway and the wind
blows the fine alkali dust through every
crack and crevice of the car till every
thing Is covered to a depth of an inch or
more with the coating of dust. If a COW
dies after they cross the Mexico line, the
engineer stops his train and the crew
viii roll her down an embankment for
the buzzards and coyotes to eat. But the
strangest part Of the COW story is the
purpose for which they are purchased
and the prices they bring when they ar
rive, These cows are all of the Holstein
breed No others are wanted, this man
tells me, and they are particular that
they are marked nicely, too, as the buy
ers are critical as to how the COW looks,
as every one is not sold on her pedigree
or performance at the pail or her Bah
cock test, but simply on her looks. These
COWS are sold to, the milk man who fur
nished the milk in the City of Mexico,
and as the city is nearly as large as Mil
waukee, it takes quite number of cows
to furnish this supply. Holstein milk
sells at 80 cents quart Mexican money,
or is equal to 25 cents United States
money Milk is not steridzed, pasteuT-
lied or certified either. 1t is delivered
warm twice a day at the door Of the
customer, and this is the way it is done:
A man can start COW route if he has
only one COW. This COW is led from
house to house and IL the housewife
wants one quart of milk it is milked into
her dish right on the spot, The COW is
led to the next customer and whatever
amount is desired is milked into her
dish and so on till the supply runs ont.
The shipper pays about $50 each for
these cows here and sells them in Mex
leo for $3.50 and some as high as 5000
Some of our patrons are claiming their
separators do not skim as close as they
did. This is the reason why The wealth
er is colder and the milk will cool to a
lower temperature than 1t should be to
skim clean. Cold milk, or milk at so de-
grees, will skim harder than at so, go to
get all the cream out the separator
should be run at a higher speed. say five
turns of the handle more per minute.
Be sure and skim as soon after milking
as possible,
II is a good time now to figure on an
ice house. Every patron of a creamery
should put up ice. You can build suit
able house very cheap. Build 1t on the
north side Of some building you haYe on
. l., 1ta 6o. I,ah hill sv.
this way have the structure you are
building against form one side. Then
set posts the required length, board this
up on the inside and out, packing saw
| dust between. ANY common board or
slab will do, then put on slant roof.
An ice house of this kind will keep ice
as well as one better, if you properly
pack and cover your ice. Ii the patrons
put mp ice, they will find but very little
| trouble in keeping their cream nice and
| sweet 1t will be an object to you, as
probably the next season cream will be
graded and paid for accordingly which
viii be the right way 10 do.
| Look to your COW stables; have them
| warmer than you had them last year.
| Tear ont your old stalls and put in stan
ellis, good floor and drop for the ma
n1re so as to keep the cows from laying
into their filth, when You have drop Of
4 say six inches. directly behind the cows
| they will keep themselves clean, you will
| not see clods of manure on their hanks
| as large az milk pail and larger. Figure
/ to have everything as handy and clean
as you can. I think your cow has paid
| you enough money TO expend some for
her to keep her comfortable and warm
this coming winter
The Bloomingdale creamery company
paid TO its patrons for first half of Sep
tember 10 cents for butter fat, and 1913
for second half Of September.
Elgin, October 10th, butter same as
last week firm al 90 cents.
| Yours truly, w. w. WIGCINGToN.
| Bloomingdale. October Is