The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1908-08-14
FARMERS EDUCATIONAL
AND
COOPERATIVE UNION
or AMERICA So
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 a speciality of
fancy butter and buttermilk | go to
market three times week. We have
a forty-fiye 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 TWEEN
~ 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
heifer that lost her calf at seven
months when she was sixteen months
old. Two others are cows that will
were freshened in February and
March. Most of my COWS are thorough
bred Jerseys or high grade We have
cream separator, and from thirteen
gallons of milk this morning we got
three and one-half gallons of cream.
feed the heavy mixers in the winter
about a 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 ont on the range,
and get no other roughness the whole
year round. Heifers and the smaller
mixers do not get quite so much
grain. The most of the buttermilk is
sold to colored people, who come TO
The house for it the day we churn at
10 cents a gallon The skim milk from
the separator is put in stone jars hold
ing five gallons and allowed to elab-
Der. On market mornings we put
ell that is clabbered into the churn
and churn ii for about ten or fifteen
minutes. enough TO thoroughly break
il up and make it smooth and thick,
and you ought to see how my custom
ers like it | have no trouble in get
ting customers for every woman who
uses it tells her neighbors about It,
and | often have to refuse to sell TO
new people / get 30 cents a gallon
for all the sour milk Should any of
the milk get too sour 10 make good
buttermilk. We put it in 100pound
can and SET on the back of the kitchen
stove until il is slightly warm, not
hot-then empty into a cotton sack
and hang up 10 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 curd in a clean white cloth
and wrap it ND and sell it for 10 cents
a package as cottage cheese or smear
kase. | have a great demand for it.
! get So cents pound for butter. Last
week ! sold 20 pounds Of butter for
$24.50; 100 gallons of buttermilk $40;
Is packages of smearkase, $3.50; 2 IL
gallons sweet milk at 40 cents a gal
lon, 81. Total, $4730, from ten cows
in one week This week we will do
better, as We will have three more
fresh cows. | have two registered Jer-
sey cows and a registered bull four
teen months old.
After bit | expect 10 have a 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 in 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 | take
a half dozen farm papers, but the
Ruralist beats them all in practical
matter for the Southland.
Springdale Farm. Little Rock, Ark,
Route 8, Box 80.