Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-03-08
DAIRYMRN CAN BE INDEPENDENT.
lne0ms Arrives Steadily and Thus Places Them IN
Position 70 Pay as They 10

Elgln, February 90 Batter firm at "a
Gus Inc market one year ago was 26
Gus ElglD, February 81 Butter 33cts.
Wlsh TO correct the statement in the
CENSOR of February 22nd about the
milk test of Mr.. p. T. Psulson. The
hrst strlppings tested 04 per cent the
last strippings 11.2 per cent. and the
whole milk = 8 per cent.
Mr.. P. Fl Ks~ser. the exnert bntter
Juuge, at the l. . convention says that
the hand sepai butter scored higher
this year tha asst. In proportion, II
made bette D. ain in quality than the
whole milk 3 ter. Buttermakers and
patrons are 8 ginning TO realize more
the Import % Of insisting upon the
hand separiS. being washed each time
after beine.g ed, and that it is absolute
~ necessa' hat The cream be delivered
IN a swef. 2 clean condition in order TO
MAKE th ~ est class of butter. The
hlghest g re- Of whole milk butter at
Uhe con g ton was 97t, and the hand
separat 40 )utter 941.
~ L. Goodrich, in an address at the
Wausau Wisconsin Dairymen's associa-
1loh' SAID; AS one travels about the
country IN different states, he can tell
tne ualry districts as Re passes through
on the train, by the good houses and
large oarns and other evidences of thrift
ana prosperity. The commercial tray-
eler VIII tell you thar there he finds his
Oesb customers, who buy freely and pay
promptly There is never a failure in
ualry products. Those who depeud on
special crops have frequent years Of
Iallufe, nug there never was a season
YET IN Wisconsin when there was NOT
feed enough of one kind or another. for
cows. The dairyman's income with a
gwen nerd of cows varies but little from
year TO year, and he can calculate with
reasonable certainty about what il will
pc. he ls not elated at times with the
expectation of getting an immence crop
ana olg prices, and tempted to run into
debt on the the strength of it and then
nave his crop failure because of a sud-
den blight or storm. The dairvman's
income flows in steadily each week or
month through the whole year and
therefore he gets into the habit of pay
ing as he goes. When the farmers in
come Is from some crop that is sold off
once a year, he gets into the habit of
running into debt at stores. Hs gets
what he wants and the members of his
family get what they want. and it ia
charged up to him. When the cron il
sold and he gets his money, he goes TO
settle up with the merchant. He Is as
tonlshed to find his account SO large and
he does not have money enough TO nav
up He has got behind and the chances
are he will be still more behind NEXT
year. After while mortgage has TO
DO given TO raise the money to pay M
This habit of getting into debt Is a bad
one and dairymen are more likely To
keep out of it than any other class of
farmers. Dairymen, as a class. have
more money to their credit in banks |
am fure for have made that a subiaet
of special investigation -
a rood many farmers have the idea
that t1eir test should be the same from
time to time They should not think
this Tests will vary every day in the
year The feeds, the person at the sep
arator, the temperature of your milk.
the amount Of milk Won have to skim
the amount of rinse water you use aud
a good many other things will vary your
tests. Ii your tests vary one or two. or
even four, points, do not think that Won
are not getting your right test. The
buttermaker will give you your right
tsst every time. Lfyou dc not think SO.
go to the creamery and have him test
your sample. If e creamery has r. test
that runs alike each month through the
year, we buttermakers call IL a t1ead
pencil test. What is lead psncil'
test2 1t is where a buttermaker in or
der TO get through testing and 90 to
town or some place where he hadn't
ought to be, takes his pencil and makes
the test the same as it was the time be-
fore. empties the tests out, washes his
bottles and Is then through.
cream is coming to the creamery in
better shape than it did year ago. The
patrons are taking more interest in TAX.
ing care Of their cream. They are lean
ing the right way am glad to know
this. We buttermakers find new ways
to better the quality of our cream and
butter We try it and If we find it all
right, we work that way. IF we have
bad cream coming to the factory, we
must lind the cause and stop it. IL our
butter ia bad, we must find the cause at
once and work some way to get it good.
The patrons should work the same way.
IL your cream is bad, find the cause and
guard against it. The reports of hand
separator butter this year against last
year, show that the farmers are educat.
inss themselves to the care of creall.
J. n. WIGGINToN.
BloOmingdale, March 4th.