The Indianapolis journal., 1904-01-13
FARM AND
GARDEN
INTERESTS
Dairying and Farming.


Philadelphia Record.
Dairying is an occupation which has paid
in every section of the United States, and
this has been accomplished under diff
culties which should not have occurred.
The farmer who makes dairying a special
ty gradually becomes wealthier because his
farm increases in fertility every year, and
because the cattle enable him TO sell the
products of his farm at prices much above
their real value in the form OF milk, but
ter and cheese. The value of the butter
amounts to over $500. 600 600, and there is
home market for all that has been pro-
duced, but a small proportion being ex-
ported. The consumption of butter is estf-
mated at about eighteen pounds per year
Tor each inhabitant, and the total amount
produced is over 1,2oo.oco,0oO pounds, of
which over "a per cent. is made in the
North Atlantic States, 81 per cent in the
South Atlantic States, II per cent. in the
South central division and 4 per cent. In
the she Western th division HS 1t may be stated
Is made In factories, the farms being the
sources from which the larger proportion
OF butter comes.
dairying and general farming With all
that has been written and urged in favor
or better breeds and superior methods of
management the scrub COW Is still the
queen on the farm and holds her position
despite all efforts to dislodge her; but she
entails a fearful loss on the farmers who
defend her. With the use of breeds that
are capable Of producing at least twice
as much milk and butter the increase of
the annual produce of butter alone would
equal that already given-S200, 900 O0-which
is much more than would be required to
purchase every pure-bred cow in the United
states. The prices obtained for choice but
ter show that the farmers who will turn
their attention to the production of the
best III the market, and who will also en-
deavor to double their, production by the
are sure of larger profits because the ex-
penSe will be relatively much less.
An increase in the production of butter
and milk, by resorting to the breeds
adapted for such work, opens a market
for the grain the farms. Every farmer
who can contrive to utilize his crops
the farm saves the several costs of COM
mission, transportation and other Incl
dentals, and this amounts to n large sum
when estimated for the whole country.
There are thousands of farmers who keep
cows which do not produce over three
pounds of butter per week, and ii is safe
to claim that there are also thousands
OF COWS that do not average 100 pounds
or butter in year, and they are not diff
fcult 10 find, even in this section. The
COW of an improved breed assists the
farmer to have home market because she
demands more tOOd which she converts
into a larger quantity of milk and butter
thus not only enabling him to dispose of
his crop to better advantage, but to derive
larger prOntS because or the decreased
expenses for labor, shelter and food in pro-
portion to product derived. The $200.O00OO0
produced in the form of butter could easily
be increased to $400. 100000 If better cows
were used. Cheap grain can be converted
into an article of higher price. 1t is claimed
that there are three pounds of butter that
can be got from bushel of by feed
ing TO good butter COWS, but it does not
pay for the labor when the cows are not
capable of fully utilizing the for the
purposes intended. The foundation, there
fore, is in the kind of stock used. The
cow is the real factory for producing but
ter, and the greater her capacity the more
thoroughly the raw material is manufac-
tured into the product