Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-07-16
Farmers Educational
AND
Cooperative Union
Of America
Forty-seVen Dollars Per Week From
Ten Cows.


Ten Cows.
Edwin c. Taylor, in Southern Ru-
ralist," says:
We only have small dairy of thir.
teen cows; we make a speciality of
fancy butter and buttermilk. go to
market three times a week. We have
forty-fve 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
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 out 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
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 put
all that is clabbered into the churn
and churn 1t for about ten or fifteen
minutes, enough to thoroughly break
1t up and make 1t smooth and thick,
and you ought to see how my custom
ers like it. I have no trouble in get
ting customers for every woman who
uses it tells her neighbors about it,
and l often have to refuse to sell to
new people. get 20 cents a gallon
for all the sour milk. Should any of
the milk get too sour to make good
buttermilk, we put 1t in a 100-pound
can and set on the back of the kitchen
stove until it is slightly warm, not
hot-then empty into cotton sack
and hang up to drain. We do this
at night, and next morning empty into
big dish pan and put on little salt
and some cream and then work 1t with
our hands like mixing bread until 1t
Is smooth, and put little over pint
Of the curd In a clean white cloth
and wrap it up and sell it for 10 cents
a package as cottage cheese or smear
kase. l have a great demand for it.
I get IS cents pound for butter. Last
week sold 70 pounds of butter for
s24.50; 100 gallons of buttermilk, $40;
IS packages of smearkase, $3.50; IL
gallons sweet milk at 40 cents a gal
lon, ST.. Total, $473O, 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 to have better
lot of cows than 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 co1ored 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.