The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1904-08-09
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One of the States Best Dairymen Describes the
Methods Which He Has Found Most Satisfactory
and Profitable.

Methods Which de Has FOUND Most Satisfactory
and Profitable.
Address of G. G. Moore, Charlotte, n. c., Before Farmers
State Convention, Raleigh, August 3, 1904.
Ny experience in dairying covers every phase
of the work, because 1 have personally done
everything connected with it. Have planted.
cultivated, gathered and fed the farm products
to the cows; have MIXED, curried, phvsiced and
petted the cows; have cleaned the barns, hauled
the manure, been to mill; have delivered milk in
all kind of weather, be it hot summer or snow or
rain in winter; have kept the accounts and can
tell at any time what the cost for any month
has been for farm help, dairy help, horse feed,
cow feed, equipment for dairy or farm, family
expenses, or any cost of anything that has been
bought. Have the amount of milk sales for each
sales for each month. Although I have gone
through these years / am here to tell you, that
what 1 do not know about dairying is greater
than what / do know.
Ny talk is to be on what I know of dairy
work. Well, it is just the hardest job I ever had.
/ must stick to it all the time, Sunday and Mon
day, Fourth of July and Christmas. There is
NO let up to the work, and no day but that prob
lens arise which must be decided at once. Many,
many mornings 1 have walked to hear the rain
pouring down in sheets. How I dreaded to go
out; but go 1 must. And often / have gone to
the cow barn to find myself alone, with sixty or
more COWS to be MIXED. Particularly would this
be 4he case if we had a good snow storm. Ny
three sons have been great help at stormy times.
Either one can milk twenty COWS at a milking.
But boys will grow up and marry and leave
home. / am not so independent now; there is
but one boy at home. He is a good one, though,
and in a pinch we two can milk forty COWS.
LET THE BOYS MILK.
Just here / wish to say that our Southern boys
are gallant, brave and equal to boys of any Sec
ton in every way except one. Too many of them
allow their mothers or sisters to milk the COWS.
This should not be, and as long as father and the
boys sit by a log fire while wife and the girls
milk the scrub COWS in a fence corner, returning
to the house with bedraggled skirts and COW odor
their person, just so long will these fathers
and sons have a contempt. for good women and
dairy work. Milking is not the woman's work.
though the gentleness of a woman, her kind
words and quiet manner, are points the man
milker needs to cultivate. We can not have a
dairy industry in North Carolina until the boys
are taught to feed and milk COWS.
The most reliable help / have had in my dairy
work have been young white men from the coun-
try. Few of them know how to milk; they did
not milk at home and so 1 had to teach them.
Another thought about the farm boy-they do
not know how to feed a cow. To the average
country boy, a lick of meal and an armful of
shucks is a feed for the cow. The boys should be
taught to feed the COW with the best ration pos
sible to produce the most milk or butter, and
keep the COW in good health at the same time.
He should be taught to curry and brush the