The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-26

lofty and well built barns that sup ported and formed a prosperous lock- Ing background. And about them were clean and well kept yards where the cows came in from the pastures wholesome looking sight was 1t all The young MT. Hall was riding a costly and modern moving machine through fertile hay field. He came to show us how butter is made in wholesale quantities and what is done in the running of a successful dairy farm. The style of the firm which owns and operates the Locust Grove Dairy Farm is J. R. Hall and Son. It was the active and energetic junior member of the firm who came for ward to serve as our cicerone about the place.
 Our butter making capacity is not so very large" said MT. Hall in be- ginning the tour. we make each of butter. At the present time VIC are milking twenty cows and they average a pound of butter a day. The whole of our output. every pound of it is taken by Montgomery firm. In other words we ship on an average of every day twenty pounds of but ter. There Is a good demand for this butter, a greater demand than we can supply at present. II is our inten- tion to increase our output. Our barn room is not sufficient and 1t is our intention to put up new barns and add to our stock of cows.
 We have found this sort of farm ing more profitable than the old cot ton raising kind. You see the butter we sell brings us in, right here on the farm twenty-five cents net. The only reason we are not selling any more than twenty pounds day is because we are not able to make any more at this particular time"
 Modern Farming Methods.
 For fear the casual reader think that the only income from the farm was the $5 a day from the butter, 1t should be said that the farm Is most productive in everything but cotton. While the place Is SS0 acres in extent the cotton crop of MT. Hall will be only three bales, but he is quite satisfied with the yield He doesn't want to make any more cotton. He has half dozen crop pers and tenants on the place and they go in heavily for cotton, but he requires of them the growing of food stuffs. The cropper may grow cotton but he must grow corn, potatoes. peas and various forage crops. Then surplus cows are sold at a profit.
 Foodstuffs are the great product of the Hall farm. Outside of his pastures and his small cotton crop Mir. Hall de- votes the large part of the place which he has reserved for himself to growing feed for man and beast, corn, potatoes, sorghum, mIllet. oats, hay peas and things of that sort.
 Much of this Is. of course, butter pro- ducing food. It goes to the cows.
 What do we feed the eows?' said the young MT. Hall. we have two different feed systems, one for winter and one for summer. But the food stuffs for winter and summer are grown here on the farm that is nearly all Of 1t. At the present time we are feeding cut sorghum, ground corn, cotton seed meal and wheat bran. In the winter we feed pea vine hay, corn shucks, wheat bran and cotton seed. We are rather careful with our feed. The cows are too valuable to lose through any care lessness in feeding, You see we have nothing on the place but Jerseys and their grades. The twenty cows that we are milking form only a part of the cattle on the farm. In all we have some 7b cows. The head of the herd fs a bull of our own raising. but which we believe is as fine an animal as you can find in the State. He Is a registered animal and for his mother we paid SIP. We are able to sell from the herd some ten or twelve cows each year and some few of these are milk cows. but the most of them go to the butcher"
 Dairy Machinery. ...
 We were in the dairy barn when the talk was being made. MT. Hall sud denly reached up and got one of a se- ries of books that were on the shelf
 You see" he continued. I've keep record of what every COW we are milk Ing does. Right over there Is pair of scales Twice day the milk from each COW is weighed. Here Is little patent arran cement for testing the but ter fat in the milk of each COW. We know exactly what 1t costs to keep a COW each day. When the record is set down totaled up and examined and we find that the COW Is not giving enough butter to pay for her keep, why we sell her to the butcher.
 Here was a light on successful farm inR-a thorough attention to detail. No wonder the hillsides and the valleys hereabout were much richer than | their neighbors. Close and perseverlng | pursuit of detail had done 1t. And an additional light was thrown on success fuI methods when others of the labor | saving machinery was explained. There | was useful and energetic gasoline en- zine It had several duties. but by far | it's most important duty was the cut | ting, grinding, and chopping of the feed | for the herd of Jerseys.
 The TFeadmllI.
 And the old way of watering the | cows by calling the cows to a long | trough and pumping or drawing water for them was long since done away | with on the Hall farm. It was too | slow, too out of date for modern meth ods. They run a tread mill pump which | has a big tank. The motive power Is | a farm horse who mounts the tread mill and who knows his business. This | tread mill was put in seven years ago | at a cost of $40. The Messrs Hall | have come to look upon 1t as very | fortunate investment It's a fine power | plant and it's quite handy in doing odd | little jobs about the cow barn.
 Naturally, a dairy farm that boasts | of that sort of machinery only has the | most modern butter making machine | From the time the cow is'milked the | hand and eye of man is helped out in | the butter making by the most in- genious machinery that inventive Americans have discovered. When the l milk has been tested, 1t Is set aside in long. narrow cans for the cream to "ripen." Then the contents of the can are run through the separator which Is run somewhat on the principal of the old fashioned coffee mills. By the application of the law of centrifugal tba oraop, doWn