Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-03-04
J. w. Parker Leases Henderson
Place for Pasteurized Milk
Company.
MODERN METHODS
One Thousand Acres on Farm,
Where 400 Cows Will be
Kept.

| AANA II lOI ANS years WIFI rene W d
clause, will be assigned to the Tri-
City Pasteurized Milk company. which
| will commence the establishment of
| l modern dairy farm as soon as the
weather permits.
The milk company thus far has
bought all of its supplies from farm
RS in Rock Island and Whiteside
| counties, and while the business was
Of small proportions the arrange
| .Gents were satisfactory. During the
past two years, however. the sales
have increase 20 per cent. the com
pany now having about 5000 custom
ers. and great difficulty has been eX-
! perienced in obtaining a sufficient sup
ply of milk. particularly during the
winter months.
! Two Prices I'm Winter.
| The contracts under which milk has
been bought are calculated to interest
| the farmer in winter production. as
| the price paid him depends not only
upon the quality of his product, but
also upon the Wholesale butter price,
so that milk is costing the company
| today about twice what it did in the
early sum DGSlDlLe lHlS lIuuSG
ment, it is stated, too many of the
| farmers have paid no attention to the
| financial advantages of winter milk
ng, a fact which combined with ex-
IRENE cold weather, bad roads an,
uncertain train service, has made the
securing of an adequate milk supply
matter of great effort. anxiety and
expense, and at times almost an i'm
possibility.
Anticipating this condition, Mr.. Par
ker commenced nearly year ago to
investigate the question of the com
pany producing its own supply and
recently submitted the results to the
stockholders, who decided TO make
an investment of about $4,000 in a
dairy farm and to commence the work
at once.
Modern Dairy Farming.
A dairy farm, in the modern sense
of the term, does not mean the cows
buildings and management of our
grandfathers. Every state university
has in its agricultural department
two or three years course in the sci
ence of dairying, which embraces the
selection, breeding, feeding. develop
ment and proper milking of COWS, bo-
vine medicine and surgery, the social
ed intense" farming or "soiling,"
whereby several different crops are
produced in a year without exhausting
the land. the scientific care of milk,
butter making, etc. 1t means the Sc
lection of cows by standards of which
the farmer fathers knew nothing and
of which many of the present day agri-
culturists have no knowledge. 1t
means warm, well-Yentilated barns
and carefully prepared feed in which
the several food elements are in that
proportion which is best for the gen
erous yield of good milk. 1t means a
daily record of each animals prOduc
ton, the weight and richness or but
ter fat as it is called, and above all
else it means cleanliness, clean cows.
clean food and water; clean barns
and yards. and clean employees.
VIII Possess All Features.
The proposed dairy farm of the Tri-
City company will possess all these
features. The best dairy farms in the
world are in Wisconsin and Illinois,
some of which have already been in
spected in search of the most modern
ideas. Curriers' farm at DeKaIb is one
of this class. Curriers' milk sells at II
cents quart in Chicago. The farm of
former Gov. Hoard at Fit. Atkinson.
Wis, is another. Hoard's butter is
sold in Buffalo, \. Y, direct to the
most exclusive family trade. Such
things indicate the value placed on the
], 81 10 l.,
public. The Rock Island farm viii be
equal to either OF these farms in all
things possible.
The farm leased consists of Gao
acres of timbered pasture and $50
acres of tillable land. On it at present
are two dwellings and a 60xS0 barn |
New dwellings for employees and cattle |
barns on three sides of the present
barn (21Ox1S0) are contemplated. in |
addition to which the finest kind of a |
milk house and several silos will be |
a spring on the hillside |
will be piped to the milk house and |
gasoline engine will pump drinking wa
ter for the cattle from deep well. As |
soon as possible the timber will be |
cleared and the land put under cult |
walton. for in modern dairy farming |
pasturing is eXtravagant.
VIII Purchase 400 Cows.
II is planned TO put 400 COWS on the /
farm as soon as they can be taken /
care of. and more than likely they viii |
be selected by the experts from the |
University of Illinois agricultural col |
lege. a graduate from some like in
who has disDIaVed ability IN
the operation of a high class, success
full dairy farm viii be engaged as su-
perintendent
The milk company does not intend |
To cut off those shippers who have as
sisted it during the period of limited |
supply. 1t is not expected that tho