The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-16
Farmers Educational
AND
Co. Operative Union
OF America
...,v.seven Dollars Per Week From
Ten Cows.

Ten Cows.
Edwin C. Taylor, in Southern Ru-
ralist," says
We only have a small dairy of thir-
40, COWS. we make a specially of
sorcv butter and buttermilk. | go to
market three times a week. We have
fortvfve gallon barrel churn that
-.orlys backward and forward and gives
.,,endid results with least labor Mon
aav we had eleven gallons of cream
ord made thirty-one pounds of gilt
oaoe butter churned in about thirty
u,inntes On Wednesday we had TWEEN
a. and one-half pounds, and IN Friday
.wantv and one-half pounds, making
eoventy-two pounds of butter from ten
COWS that we were milking, one a
beifer 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. l
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
bulls at feed night and morning. The
COWS are turned out on the range,
and get no other roughness the whole
wear 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 a 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 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
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 20 cents gallon
for all the sour milk. Should any of
the milk get too sour TO make good
buttermilk, we put ii in a 1O0-pound
can and set on the back of the kitchen
stove until II 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 il with
our hands like mixing bread until II
is smooth, and put little over a pint
OF the curd in a clean white cloth
and wrap 1t up and sell it for 10 cents
package as cottage cheese or smear
kase | have great demand for II.
| get 50 cents a pound for butter. Last
week | sold 20 pounds of butter for
$3.50: 100 gallons Of buttermilk, $40;
Is packages of smearkase, $3.50; IL
gallons sweet milk at 40 cents gal
Ion, ST. Total. $47,30 from ten COWS
N.
better, as we will have three more
fresh COWS. have two registered Jer-
sey COWS and a registered bull tour-
teen months old.
After bit | expect to have better
lot of cows than | have now Have
one 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
half dozen farm papers, but the
Ruralist beats them all in practical
matter for the Southland.
Springdale Farm Little Rock, Ark.
Route 3, Box 80.