Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-17
The pairrY.

trade IN that city and vicinity
has sent out notices Of a big ad-
vance In milk prices to the trade
beginning October l, and continu-
ing till March. This advance
means that milk will sell 20 per
cent over the months last fall
and wilmer. 1t Is predicted that
milk and butter prices will reach
the highest point ever attained in
this country.
In Argentine farm dairying is
carried on in a very crude way.
Two quarts day is considered
very good milk yield for the aver
age cow in that country, show
ing the great lack of breeding
up :gr dairy purposes. The COW.
have to be 'trkt" for milking,
and this is a it.ugh and hazard,
Gus task, and requires a trained
man. The hind legs Of the low
are tied with rope and she is
subjected to all sorts of hard us
age before she is considered tame
enough to milk Before start
ing in to milk, the mixer straps
the stool to himself, and goes
through a considerable prepare
ton for the ordeal. ''s'
Elgin Dairy Record: The best
cure for the ''blueS" is butter
milk. When everything goes
wrong and n"tlnig goes right
your temper gives way and no
body but your eNrr patient DOG
can abide with yoT, be sure yJG
have that depressing complaint,
known as melancholy. 1t is a
microbe that causes these period.
zeal fits of gloom and buttermilk
is fatal to this particular baccil-
lus. 1t browns it out or paraly-
yes it with its pungent acids. So
when the blues comes on the
obvious course is to quaff this
fluid as freely as possible.
There is a farmer in Iowa, says
a dairy item from that state,
who claims that he can take a
COW giving 1000 pounds of milk
or 60 pounds of butter per year.
and by feeding her Sparingly, pro
duce a pound of butter as cheap.
ly as he could with a COW giving
5000 pounds of milk or 800
pounds of butter. Give the lat
ter COW all she will eat summer
and winter and charge her with
every cent it costs or is worth
and she will produce pound of
butter for less than one-half the
cost of producing a pound with
the inferior and half-Starved COW.
The dairy law in Kansas now
requires that all milk and cream
buyers in that state shall have a
knowledge of bacteriOlOgy. and
the general composition of dairy
products. To those sufficient
ly versed in these requirements a
license will be issued. This Ii
cense will be revoked upon its
first violation. According to rec
OrdS, there are 2.200 TO $500
cream buyers in Kansas who will
have to take this examination.
Dairy Commissioner Wilson plans
to hold meetings at convenient
points throughout the state and
give Instructions. through two OF
: three days lectures before the
examination is given. This plan
will result in cream buyers hav.
ing uniform instruction and there
fore result in the uniform hand.
ling of dairy products through
out Kansas.
Everywhere farmers are taking
more interest in dairying, and are
breeding up a better strain OF
dairy animals. The poor mixers
cost as much as the good cows,
and both consume the same
amount of feed. I'm Minnesota
Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, y
says COlman's Rural World" the
dairy industry is becoming the
leading branch of husbandry. In
these states are herds of HOlstein
Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire anc
general purpose ShorthOrn cattle
Full blOods and grades of these
breeds comprise the bulk of the
cows used in the dairy industry