The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-09

mere inability to exist under preYail-
ing conditions.
How much longer are we going to
be entirely dependent on wheat rails
ing? Shall we continue until we are
forced into something more certain,
or profit by the experience of our
neighbors and make preparations that
will make US Independent of large
crops? What is to be done? What
did they do in Minnesota, South Da-
kota and other states? Did they all
move to town and start general
stores, newspapers, cigar stands, etc.?
No! They discovered friend in need
in the old COW that they had MIXED
and cursed and sighted for years.
What was the result? By this time
the old folks are living in town in a
modern up-to-date house, and their
children are spending their time alter
nately in college and on the old home
stead. Daily mail, telephone, and, in
many instances, electric railways are
at their service.
The young people are accomplished
In all branches of learning and music.
A piano and up-to-date furniture Is to
be found In almost every farmhouse
parlor.
It ma be too early to start cream
cries in some parts of our state, but
it certainly is not too early to prepare
for what is sure to come. Take it for
granted that wheat can be raised sue
cessfully for the next five years or
more. At the end of that time say
that we go into the creamery or dairy
business. What are we going to do
with it? Will we have the proper
quality of stock to make it success?
If not 1t will take five years more to
establish the creamery business on a
paying basis. Too many farmers pay
no attention whatever to the testing
or breed of their cows, and lots of
COWS are being kept and fed the year
round at an actual expense to their
owner instead of being source of
revenue. Without quoting from sta
tistics, would venture to state that
not over Is per cent. of the COWS in
the state would be acceptable to a
professional dairy farmer. This would
not apply to all sections of the state,
as we have some good creameries and
dairy farmers, but, as general rule,
dairying is secondary consideration
or side line
Under these conditions we are not
in a position to make mixed farming
pay and something must be done to
bring about a change. If we do not
make radical change make it gradu-
ally anyway and be prepared when the
wave comes this way. Do not be
afraid that the bottom will drop out
of the butter market If you go into
the dairy business. Immense quanti-
ties of butter are exported to foreign
countries. Cinnamon are learning to
eat butter and by the time four hun
dred million of them know how we
will never be able to make enough.
We have got our foot on the oleo-
margarine outfit and they will never
be in position to flood the market.
Farming land in dairy country is
worth from $50 to 500 or more per
acre. Why not make this a dairy
country?
In the east several creameries are
to be found in every county, some
times one in every township. They
were formerly operated on what is
called the whole milk" system and
some of them retain that system yet,
especially when the country is thick
ly populated or where each farm con-
tains only forty or eighty acres. I'm
der the whole milk" system the
patrons take their milk to the factory
every morning, which takes a good
deal of time and they lose the value of
the warm skim-milk for feed for the
young stock and hogs. This is quite
an item and the hand separator has
proved paying investment, even to
patrons who are within easy reach of
the factory machine. Besides the
value of warm milk for feed it is a
saving of time and labor, as they have
only one can of cream to take to the
creamery in place of five or six cans
Of milk and, as a rule, every other
day is often enough to bring the
cream. However, the oftener the
cream is brought to the creamery the
more certain will be good product.
In this connection it might also be
stated that absolute cleanliness is a
necessary factor in producing a good
and keepable quality of butter. Wash
your separator Immediately after
skimming is completed as the longer
1t is left the harder 1t is to get it
clean.
In our state the hand separator is
the only salvation, as the farms are, as
a rule, too large to make the hauling
of milk profitable, without taking in
to consideration the value of the warm
skim milk from your own herd for
feeding purposes, as stated before.
For sometime to come we cannot make
1t pay to establish creameries too
close, but the transportation of cream
is very reasonable, so IL a creamery
Is not accessible to you take it to
your station and ship it to the nearest
creamery until you can get one in
your own neighborhood.
would not encourage the central
izing system, but creamery in
community that has not proper sup
port Is more Of detriment to the
dairy interests than an advantage.