Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-22
TIE TALK OF THE BossY COW.
Practical Hints and Suggestions Butter Lower
Than Last Year.

Elgin, June g. the market is again
| 17tc; year ago 21tc. Chicago 171c,
New York 1Sc. June 13, Elgin again
| 17tc; a yeaT ago 21c. Butter ia kept
| well cleaned up in the market and looks
Ike an iSc lT.rket for June 20. The
eastern markets ere the same as last
week.
The Bloomingdale creamery paid 1Sc
for two and half months, shipping ov-
er 1900 pounds the first half of June
and has eighty-six patrons on .ts pay
roll. Doing well for this little place,
aren't we?
What Mrs Daisy Cow says to her
neighbor: 1T rained the other day and
Mr. Dairyman and the hired man were
cleaning and oiling harness in the barn
and farmer from beyond the creamery
came in for shelter. The hired man
asked him how his cows were doing and
he said fine. But just listen. He was
asked how many pounds day they ay-
eraged, and he didn't know. How much
milk a year his best COW gave, and he
didn't know. How many cows he had
that gave 20G pounds butter or more a
year, and he didn't know. How many
pounds more the herd had produced
this week than last, and he didn't know.
Say, Id hate to work for man like
that. Why. a good COW like me could
work her udder off with the weight of
milk and some scrub two-ysar-old would
get all the credit, just because she look
ed fat and sleek standing round doing
nothing. I'm tired now and thirsty.
must go and get :. nice cool driuk in the
spring Doesn't this fresh water taste
nice. | wonder how our neighbor gets
along drinking from that slop hole over
yonder and Mr.. ms COWS don't have
drink most all day long What a
shame our bosses do not supply us with
good fresh water whenever we want It,
| know we conld put lot more dollars
in his pocket than we do, and he could
have better stables and buy us more nice
feed for the long winter months. Oh
say, Spot, wish our boss would build
what they call silo: they say the feed
from one is just as nice as green grass. !"
The milk inspector of Chicago is in
specting milk cans with an axe. Every
old rusty can has few holes chopped
into it before returning TO the dairyman.
Old rusty oaus are very dangerous for
milk and cream. The state dairy and
food inspector will sooR visit u.s. He is
also inspecting the dairy farms. Let us
clean up our places for milk and cream.
Have everything nice and clean so when
he comes he will speak well of you, but
after he has gone go on the same old
way. Oh, no, keep everything as clean
and nice all the time; it isn't so much
work as 1t is to keep it the other way.
There is too much cream delivered to
the creamery in the tlont-care way.
Dust and hot sun will not help it bit.
When is the best time to deliver your
cream? In the morning, of course, when
nature is at its best. With good cool
mornings, the smell of the wild rose and
the songs Of the bird, why do you ride
in tt hot sum- 1t isn't any farther to
the factory in the morning than it is in
the afternoon. The br - rmaker is al
ways there in the morning He gets up
at 2:30 has his breakfak at 8, goes TO
work at $50, takes in cream from 9 q.
| M. to 8 p m, cools his cream until 10,
goes to bed at II and gets up again at
$50. Three and half hours sleep is
enough for any buttermaker, you bet,
and fine nights to sleep at that.
Mr. o. F. Goplin Just returned from
| the fair at st. Louis. He says by all
talk it is far ahead Of the Chicago fair.
He intends going again this fall.
Mr.. Gus Morterud has Just finished
harvesting the crop of hay in his garden
1t makes a good Improvement in the
looks of it,-you can see the rows Of
vegetables when you are little ways
from it. The buttermaker's garden is
different: it is all weeds, no grass and
you can't see a row of vegetables with q
spy glass ]. N. WIGGINToN.
Bloomingdale, June 90, '04