The Green Forest tribune., 1908-07-17
Farmers Educational
 AND o-Operative Union Of America
Forty-Seven Dollars Per Week From
 Ten Cows,

Forty-Seven Dollars Per Week From
 Ten Cows.
 Edwin C. Taylor, in Southern Ru- ralist,' says:
 We only have a small dairy of thir- teen COWS; we make specially of fancy butter and buttermilk. I go to market three times a week. We have a forty-five gallon barrel churn that works backward and forward and gives splendid results with least labor Mon- day We had eleven gallons of cream and made thirty-one pounds of gilt edge butter churned in about thirty minutes. On Wednesday we had twen- ty and one-half pounds, and on Friday twenty and one-half pounds, making seventy-two pounds of butter from ten cows that We were milking, one a heifer that lost her calf at seven months when she was sixteen months old. Two others are COWS that will have calves in July. The other COWS were freshened in February and March. Most of my cows are thorough bred Jerseys or high grade. We have a cream separator, and from thirteen gallons of milk this morning we got three and one-half gallons of cream. feed the heavy milkers in the winter about gallon of wheat bran and a heaping quart of cotton seed meal with about three gallons of cotton seed hulls at feed night and morning. The cows are turned out on the range, and get no other roughness the whole year round. Heifers and the smaller milkers do not get quite so much grain The most of the buttermilk is sold to colored people, who come 10 the hou9o for it the day we churn at 1j cents q gallon The skim milk from the separator is put in stone jars hold ing five gallons and allowed to clab- Der. On market mornings we put ail that is clabbered into the churn and churn it for about ten or fifteen minutes, enough to thoroughly break it up and make it smooth and thick, and you ought to see how my custom CTS like it. I have no trouble in get ting customers for every woman who uses it tells her neighbors about it, and 1 often have to refuse to sell to new people. I get 20 cents gallon for all the sour milk. Should any of the milk get too sour to make good can and set on the back of the kitchen stove until it is slightly warm, not hot-then empty into a cotton sack and hang up to drain. We do this at night, and next morning empty into a big dish pan and put on little salt and some cream and then work it with our hands like mixing bread until it is smooth, and put little over pint of the eurd in a clean white cloth and wrap it up and sell it for 10 cents package as cottage cheese or smear kase. l have great demand for it. get 35 cents pound for butter. Last week l sold 70 pounds of butter for $24.50; 100 gallons of buttermilk, S20; IS packages of smearkase, S1.S0; ? 1-2 gallons sweet milk at 40 cents a gal Ion, $1. Total, $47.30, from ten cows in one week. This week we will do better, as we will have three more fresh cows. l have two registered Jer- sey cows and a registered bull 1our- teen months old.
 After bit I expect to have better lot of cows than I have now. Have one two-year-old heifer fresh about three weeks that gives over four gal Ions of milk a day We are town people; have only been on the farm for four years. My daughter, myself and a colored boy do all the work; have ten acres ia bottom. four in corn. one and one-half in Irish potatoes and other garden stuff, and a strawberry patch of one-fourth of an acre. I take half dozen farm papers, but the Ruralist beats them all in practical matter for the Southland
 Springdale Farm. Little Rock, Ark. Route 3, Box 39.
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