Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-03-24
FARMER AND PLANTER.
DAIRYING IN THE SOUTH.
A Line of Farm Industry That IL .
Constant Source of Ready
Cash Income.

The farmer OF the old south detest-
ed the idea of churning-except wnen
done by the old black NANNY or some
of the children. The farmers wife
dreaded the daily routine OF churnlns
with its problems of "foaming milk,
white butter and cleaning pans, cans
and crooks. While making Just
enough butter for our own use 1t is
impossible to break away from these
tiresome problems. In fact, butter ior
the farm family costs twice as mucn
per pound in labor and feed as does
the best creamery butter. The COWS
are often fed at loss, the milk is SET
improperly, cream is not fully churneo
and there is no help derived from i'm
proved machinery or labor saving 90
vices. But the farmer who makes put-
ter for market as side crop or VINO
sells his cream to factory located lVo
miles from the farm finds all OF the
tiresome details lightened and simpa-
fed by the dairy inventions OF our
day. The cheap hand cream separator,
improvements in setting milk, better
churns and cheap transportation nave
brought about this Improvement anu
money has flowed in upon farmers py
SIS. SIS or $40 each month and proved
real surprise to the good man OF
woman who had risked few dollars
on this new enterprise.
In a new and rapidly developing
country cattle raising is limited cnlehy
to beef production because natural
feeds are cheap. Such cattle are usu-
ally crude, unfinished specimens ana
fill the markets with low grade stuh'
Improved blood soon appears IN the
breeds of cattle and the local supplies
of feed are used to finish the cattle
crown on farms or small ranches
These better bred cattle eonstitu'e
the class quoted as feeders. Inc
southwestern cattle interests have now
reached the feeding point From this
time forward thousands OF nnisneu,
we'll fatted cattle will be turned OH
by those farms upon which surplus
supply of feed is found. Here lies
the greatest possible profit per acre
and per man in cattle raising.
We should not express surprise tna'
Texas and other southwestern states
have recently imported butter by the
ton from the older states. Inc cal,ie
industry here has been operated upon
a pioneer basis, known as the ranse
system. This has Influenced the man
ner of keeping cows, even in the oiaer'
we'll settled portions OF these states.
The lessons taught under this OLD re-
gime was briefly: 1.-THE southwest Is
naturally a COW country, therefore II
is useless. it is extravagant to supply
feed for cattle or to provide for them
with system" With the passing Oh
this fallacy and the increase OF 1eeo-
ing facts among farmers the farmer Is
confronted by the question, can l
make money feeding dairy cows
If any class of cattle can be fed
profitably in a country dairy cattle as
suredly can. We see the reason LOT
this in the proven fact that more OF
the feed is returned to the owner when
fed to the milk COW than when FED 10
the beef steer. Add to this the estap-
lished fact that there is a smaller vari-
sureu Incume udsctI vie Of airy prod
and cheap production. The dairy farm
err has cash in hand because he 'foots
up" weekly or each month and knows
the extent of his success or failure in
time to change and improve upon his
system. Unlike the farmer who
grows a crop of corn or cotton for a
year he gets his returns continually
and does not need the assistance (0
of the credit system.
The cash returns each month, the
growth of pigs and calves fed upon
nourishing milk slops, the sale now and
then of good calf, constant increase
in the richness of his lands-these are
sufficient arguments to keep the farmer
selling cream or butter without men
tioning the pleasures of a full supply
to the household of all those table
dainties and necessities that are to be-
found only upon a farm where good
mich COWS are kept going IL months in
the year.-Texas Farm and Ranch.