Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04
Farmen Educational
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Operative Union
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Forty.seven Dollars Per Week From
Tss Gown,

Tss Cove
Edwin c. Taylss, In Southern Ru-
ralist," >says:
We only have . small dairy Of thir.
teen cows; We make a speciality Of
fancy butter and buttermilk. 20 to
market three times week. We have
q forty-fvs gallon barrel churn that
works backward and forward and gives
splendid results with least labor. Mon
day We had eleven gallons Of cream
and lde thirtyene 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
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
q cream separator, and from thirteen
gallons of milk this morning we got
three and one-half gallons Of cream. I
feed the heavy mixers in the winter
about a gallon Of wheat bran and q
heaping quart Of cotton seed meal
with about three gallons of cotton seed
bulls at feed night and morning. The
cows are turned out on the range,
and get no other roughness the whole
year round. Hsifers 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 1t the day we churn at
Is cents 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 20 put
al that is clabbsred into the churn
and churn II for about ten or fifteen
minutes, enough to thoroughly break
u up and make Il smooth and thick,
md you ought to see how my custom.
Gs like 1t. have no trouble In get.
ting customers for every woman who
uses 1t tells her neighbors about It,
and I often have to refuse to sell to
new people. sst % cents a gallon
for all the sour milk. Should any Of
the milk get to- sour to make good
buttermilk, we put It in a 100-pound
oan and set on the back Of the kitchen
stove until It II slightly warm, not
hot-then empty into cotton sack
and hang up to drain. We do this
at night. and next morning empty into
Q big dish pan and put on little salt
and some cream and then work 1t with
our hands like mixing bread until II
Is smooth, and put little over q pint
Of the curd in o clean white cloth
and wrap 1t up and sell it for 10 cents
package as cottage cheese or smear
kase | have a great demand for 1t.
/ get IS cents q pound for butter. Last
week l sold 10 pounds of butter for
t24.5O 100 gallons Of buttermilk, $40;
IS packages Of smsarkase, $3.50; . IL
gallons sweet milk at 40 cents 9 gal
lon, 81. Total, s473o, from ten COWS
In one week. This week we will do
better, az we will have three more
fresh cows. have two registered Jer.
sey cows and q registered bull four.
teen months old.
After bit | expect to have better
iot Of cows than have now. Have
one two-year-old heller fresh about
three weeks that gives over four gal
Ions Of milk . dN. We are town
people; have only bssc on the farm
for four years. Ny daughter, myself
snd q colored boy do all the work;
Aavs ten acres In bottom, four in corn,
one and one-haN n Irish potatoes and
sthsr garden stu&, and strawberry
patch of one-fourtl Of an acre. take
| q half dozen farm papers. but the
Ruralist beats them all in practical
matter for the Seathland.
springdale FAsA. Little Rock, Ark..
Acute 3. Box 50.