The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-01-30
SELLING TO CHEESE FACTORY
AND cONDENSERY NOT
PROFITABLE
Can Farmer Afford to Sell His MIX
To condensery or Cheese Factory
For 40 Gents Per 100 Pounds More
4 Than He Could Sell the Fat ii the
Cream For?

The qestion is very frequently asked
l.by our agents and farmers. Read the
answer yourself. Verify the state
ments made and determine for your
self whether what is said is logic O,
not. The question is susceptible of sew
eral answers, depending on existing
conditions on various farms.
Beware of entering into a contract
In any new enterprise, unless a con
tinued and permanent profit is likely
to continue. Beware of the temptingly
high prices for one, two or three
months. Think about what your year.
ly average may be-
Now the Wisconsin Experiment STA.
ton (see BulletiD received 60 cents
per 100 pounds for fresh hand sep.
Grated skim milk when feeding it ia
pigs and sows. The pork was valued
at $610 per 100 and the grain at one
cent a pound 'or twenty dollars ton.
Michigan got so, and Ontario College,
Canada, 70 cents per 100 under the
same conditions.
Now hear you say: Il cannot do as
we'll as these stations" Not true. You
can do better. You or your son, is lust
as good a judge in feeding pigs as the
young man to whom such work is as
signed at the experiment station. You
frequently do better, and don't know
1t because you have not kept a rec
ord to convince yourself.
| hear you say Hogs are not S6.lO
now True. But you just take the
average of the seven experiment sta
tons quoted, in feeding all sizes and
kinds of hogs and you have an aver
age of 67 cents per 100 received when
pork is 500. If now, pork is S cents
the skim milk nets the farmer Sc cents
per 100. If pork is only cents, YOU
get 46 cents per 100.
These figures are made by expert
ment> stations and not us. They are
made with view to showing exactly
what farmer can depend upon as to
values. Right here in Waterloo one
farmer claims emphatically, that his
skim milk brought him so cents per
100, on Sc pork.
Ii you take exceptions you are not
doing SO with us, shut with those at
the head of seven experiment sta
tions.
Suppose that these same hogs had
received grain worth say $1,000 per
ton instead of $40 and that pork was
$500 per 100 your fresh hand sep
arated skim milk wouldN bring YOU
30 cents per 100, and with pork at
cents per pound, the skim milk was
worth 48 cents per 100 nearly. Figure
it yourself
Suppose now you have Jersey.
Guernsey, Ayrshire or Short-horn
grades and that your milk tests an
average of 4.30. That kind of milk is
richer in solids, such as casein, sugar.
etc., and contains less water and is
the most profitable milk for the con.
densery to buy.
Milk testing 800 in butter-fat, is not
as profitable for them, because it con-
tains more water per 100, and less
per cent of sugar and casein. Conden-
series however, usually pay the same
price per 100 irrespective of its com
position. The farmer with cows giving
: low testing milk, had better sell his
logs and calves and patronize the con-
1ensery every time they agree to nav
him $1.40 per 100. In the first place
hat farmers skim milk, from milk
'un through a farm separator is worth
S, OF 8 or 10 cents per 100
ess than the average values given by
,hese seven experiment stations. The
more water the COW puts in the milk.
he more water there will be in the
skim milk and the less the hog will
get out of it.