The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-06

Farmer The different opinions oi
farmers met at the institutes now being
held in South Dakota seem worthy 81
mote. At Clark and other points, where
good creameries were running success
fully, the interest in all dairy topics was
usually well marked and the questions
asked showed fair degree Of intelli.
gence as to the feeding, milking and
disposition Of the product, but usually
a sad degree Of ignorance as TO the pos
sibilities of the true bred dairy COW.
Nearly all were milking something oi
the so-called dual-purpose type, and
wherever figures as to- monthly receipts
could be obtained, it was very evident
Ithat there were usually some dead beats
or non-paylng boarders in almost every
herd, Why not cut them out?
Il AT some other points the statements
were plainly made that milking did not
1 payl AT one point a disgruntled farmer
Inquired If any one had ever heard oi
a millionaire dairyman. Perhaps not
Except Vanderbilt of Biltmore, M c.,
and possibly few more who milk as
II " diis uOGS---WllHe d CHECK DOOks
But is; the average millionaire of to-
day the highest, grandest type of hui
nlanity, or even Of happiness? ] for
lone dare maintain that any honest man
who raises ard educates his family and
1 pays his debts by dairying is the peer
aye, the superior of the average mil
Ilionaire. " Y
1 Rockefeller, sr., who is perhaps the
Imost talked-of millionaire of modern
times, may be said to be very success
ful "rnilker, ir,asmuch as he has made
the people give down" until his pail
of wealth is literally overfoWing, with
what !? The world calls it tainted mon
eN which it evidently is because he
has failed to follow out the most inn
Iportant point of all milking, which is
Ito milk with clean hands. IT seems al
lmost a sacrilege to mention the great( b
1"Uncle' Hiram Smith, the pioneer
dairyn1ar Of Wisconsin, but for mo-
ment compare the two: The one hated
Idespised and even execrated, because Of
business methods that were really steal
Iings made. solely to increase his own
pile; the other loved and respected in
life, and honored in death as one who
by his teachings and practical work
added untold millions, not to his own
/ bank account, but to the wealth of his
state and nation and thereby increased
the happiness Of all his fellow citizens
i The list of mixers who are million.
Eaires may be small, but hist of those
IWho are bankrupt, and who are in pris-
Ior TOR crime is Still smaller.
i The idle mans brain is the devils
Town workshop, and as the true dairy.
imam is never idle, he never commits any
deviltfy, N g
In nearly every town in Dakota there
l5are numbers of families where good but
tier is scarce and hard to get. Several
lparties told me that they would gladls
Icontract to take a goodly quantity toi
3good clean, farm made butter and pay
10 cents per pound premium over any
Eprice that the stores were paying. Any
lfarnier who can furnish these parties
with the right sort of an article and
furnish it fresh and regularly can gel
this own price for it.
H There are several reasons for this
scarcity of good butter. One is thai
There is not enough made. to supply the
/ demand The creameries all prefer to
ipack their butter in tubs and ship 4
out to the big markets 1t is not creanl-
tery butter that these families want; il
lis good, clean diary butter, such as
!mother used to make. The only rea-
son they do not get it, is because it is
tnot made. The farmer or the farmers
wife who will supply this demand car
soon have trade that will make them
practically independent, though they may
mot become millionaires. But what little
lmoney they do have. will not be ataint-
ted nor will they or their children ever
be heard of as dodging from the strong
arm of the law.
Good milk is also i'm demand and one
Iold soldier told me that from one good
COW he had sold over $roo worth oi
milk and cream to his neighbors in one
lyear. But this one good COW was past
Iher prime and when he started out to
ibuy another good one to help the old
cow out, he simply could not find any
Ithing that looked like a good COW. Iii
TALL small towns where a COW could be
Iproftably kept, parties often hunt for
months and years for ii good cow. II
lis not fancy pedigrees nor particular
colors that they desire, but simply an
honest dairy COW that will turn good
Heed into milk at a profit. The farmer
lwho grows his own feed for ten or
!more cows may keep one or two dead
lheads' and not know it but the town
man with one COW and a dead beat at
Ithat, soon finds it out.
Any dairy type heifer, two OF three
years old. will sell for about twice what
la beef steer of the same age will bring
land this class of heifers are in far bet
| ter demand than the steers are. The
Ifarmer who will raise such heifers and
raise them right and advertise them
lean surely make little money.
1t may not Be a get rich quick
lschenie but it is a sure one, and what
HE does make will not be tainted mon.
ley. But please remember that between
Ia Scrub that yields 100 pounds of but.
tier per year and a true dairy cow thai
yields 1000 pounds per year there is j
long ascending grade on any part oi
(which there Is room for fairly good
Icows.
All It'll, annual meeting Of the stock.
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