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the method of caring for milk, and SCI
that the COWS have access to nothin,
! but pure water. He can then reiec
the milk improperly treated or from
COWS drinking impure water. One
great feature Of the CO. operative sys
tenn in Wisconsin which tends to give
the patrons sense of confidence is the
monthly statement issued by the sec
retary, giving an itemized account Of
the business of the creamery for the
preceding month, accompanied by q
check for his dividend. 1t shows the
farmer just how the factory is run.
Profits of DairyIng.
Dairiyng is today almost the only
profitable line of business left to the
farmer in nearly every part of the
country.
In this, the country in which the
writer lives, whole communities of
rich dairy farmers can be pointed to,
whom ten or twelve years ago, not
only did not, but could not own a
herd of cows, and the greatest things
that grew ON their farms were mort
tages, Dairying and prosperity in
the communities to which | refer,
were brought about through the agen-
cy of the Co Operative Creamery. A
very good article on the advantages of
dairying has been written by j. w.
Newton, Stowe, Vt, who speaks
whereof he knows, being practical
man. He says:
"The first advantage of dairying is
that it takes less fertility from the
soil than other branches of farming,
sugar making alone excepted. Au-
thorities differ, but the following fig
ures are approximately correct, round
numbers being given. A ton of each
product mentioned below, takes fer
tili2ing material from the soil as indi-
Gated by the figures:
crn $500; oats $3.50; hay $500;
clover 49, 90; potatoes g. 90; fat oxen
81, 90; milk 81. 50; butter 50 cents.
"a ton of wheat takes seven dollars
out of the farm and sells for less than
sixteen dollars; a ton of butter, fifty
cents worth of plant food from the
farm and sells for from four to six
hundred dollars. Comment is need
less.
"Second. Butter Is condensed
product. Nothing can be made or
grown on the farm which brings as
much per pound. Farmers remote
from market and communities far
from railroads can send butter from
the farm or creamery with the least
possible expense. Hardly any other
farm product can be loaded, hund-
red to thousand dollars worth at
time, upon wagon and drawn to
shipping point so readily as can but
ter. The dairyman can condences
tons of fodder and crops grown on
the farm into dairy products and send
them to market in compact and port
able form.
Third. Butter is a finished pro-
duct, 1t Is made ready for the con.
sumer either in the private dairy or
local factory or creamery. The only
exception is where cream is sent long
distances to a central station from
skimming stations scattered over a
large section of the country. But this
exception only proves the rule. Much
that Is produced on the farm is raw
material, and must be manufactured
or otherwise prepared for for use after
leaving the farm.
Fourth. Dairying brings in con
stant income. The man who sells
crops of any kind has to wait until he
can market his products once year.
There Is little satisfaction in this. 1t
is unbusinesslike to go without cash
fifty one weeks and then have lot of
money come in at one time. The
dairyman has an income nearly fifty
two weeks in year.
"Fifth. Dairying gives constant
remunerative employment. The grain
or potato grower must spend a large
part of the year in enforced idleness,
but the dairyman finds profitable work
throughout the year and his work is
most profitable in the winter time.
"Sixth. On the dairy farm the work
is better divided. The grain harvest
comes 80 close to haying that it often
gets mixed up with it to the detriment
of both but where corn is grown and
put into the silo for dairy feed, and
not so much or no grain raised, the
harvests are several weeks apart.
Then in winter dairying there is let
up in the dairy work at the busiest
season of the year on the farm, while
the dairy needs the most work whom
other farm work is lightest
Seventh. Skill and brain work get
better pay in dairying than any other
branch of farming. To produce fine
dairy product requires something be-
sides hard work. The dairyman must
have knowledge and skill and exercise
great care. These are required In
breeding and feeding dairy COWS, and
in handling dairy products. VAnd the
care bestowed and the skill exercised,
get pay in hard cash as they do in no
other branch of farming.
Eighth There il more room at
the top, greater opportunity to i'm
prove than in any other work. Cows
produce from $50 to 500 pounds of
butter per year, and butter sells from
ten cents to forty-five cents per
pound. No other branch of agricul-
ture shows anything like this, or gives
such a chance to rise.
''Ninth. Take the country through,
there il no kind of farm work so well
suited to women as dairying.
"Tenth. Dairying leads to thought
fulness for the comfort of animals and
thus tends to morality. There is
something demoralizing about horses.
Men who work in horse stables are
rough, rs a rule, but cows have an OPP
posite influence. To do her best the
COW must be made as comfortable as
possible in every way. She will toll
crate no neglect or cruelty. She is a
teacher of gentleness and kindness.
eleventh. Dairying Is the most
progressive branch of farming. Think
of the changes for the better that five
years have brought, the Babcock test,
the improvements in separators, etc.
Twelfth. Dairying pays better
than any other branch of farming,
10th actually and prospectively.
Look at the prices of farm products.
lake wheat or sheep and wool or
horses and see how the prices have
dropped. The prospect is poor for
many other products, but butter is al
high in mcst markets or but little
I lower than 1t has been for severa