The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-08-27
Bread, Bacon and Butter.

r With the production of the bigges
cop Of corn in the history of th
State the bread and butter issue ough
to command general attention. o
course there will be those who will ia
SiSt upon selling their corn for expOr
then within few months, send thei
money to the West for bread, bacol
and butter, but the wise farmer VIII,
has made a big crop will buy none o
these things this year. II he ha
more corn than he can use to adyan
ttge he will sell the surplus; but ht
will keep for his own use all that car
be turned protitably into provendel
for man and beast.
Bread, bacon and butter, the three
BIS OF agriculture, ought TO become q
slogan among the farmers OF the
South this fall. Already we have
given much attention to the bread and
bacon end OF this agricultural trium-
vlrate, but except in a general sort OF
way, but little attention has been
paid to the question OF whether the
Southern people shall be compelled to
continue buying their butter in Wis.
consin, MINI eSota, Iowa and Nebras
ka, or whether they will be able to
buy it Of their own farmers.
There has never been any doubt
about what ought to be done. nor can
there be any question of the prefer.
ence Of the Southern consumers
n ha for ~ ~,
ing between butter made at home and
that obtained from other States, but
the difficulty has been that the South
ern farmer has not realized the advan-
.tage and profits that are to be realized
from the manufacture of butter.
The farmers Of the Middle West
have been forced by adversely u. ex.
periment with many Industries ano
the result has been that they have
found butter making one of the most
profitable branches of the allied agri-
cultural industies. The statistics !
show that the State OF Wisconsin. |
Iowa and Minnesota each markt t |
100, 900, 600 pounds of butter annually. |
This amount OF butter brings to each |
OF these States practically as much as
an Ordinary cotton crop 0S sugar crop
brings to Louisiana, and yet butter
mAkiGg is one OF tile minor industries,
as it were.
There Is no reason why our farmers
should not make butter as successful y
and as prctitably as it is made by the
of the Western States who.
by their energy and industry, have
crow ded New York, once the greatest
butter producing State In the Union,
far down the list in the industry. In
recent article on the developm ent or
,he butter industry in Nebraska,
K. Curtis is authority for the
statement that the largest conpanyt
a th1 State engaged in the, manufac-
jure OF butter buys its cream from
Toe different StatiouS: these stations
being supplied by $4,000 different
arms, 1000 of which are in Nebraska,
Ind the others in Iowa, South Dako.
ia, Missouri and Kansas. Some of the
;ream is shipped from points 700
niles distant and the farms from
WHICH, CiilS supply ID OUIdiucu nave dn
lverage OF eight COWS each. -, !, l.
The beauty about the butter indus
;ry is that 1t goes naturally and prof.
ably along with the bacon, bread and
beef industries, for while the cream
,oes into the making Uf butter the
kim milk is devoted to the feeding
If calves and the fattening Of hogs,
he by products in this case being per-
laps more valuable to the small farm
n than the principal industry is. The
)oll weevil has opened the door to. :,
he Southern coGtOn farmer and put
him in position to enter into enter.
,riSeS which have brought wealth to
,ther sections, and it will be mis- own
ault il he Shal! fail to take advantage
# the tempting opportunity. Co op-
rative creameries might be organized
" the farmers themselves and thus
n industry might be begun which
would add immensely to the prosperity
+ the people and to the material |
wealth OF the SJate.-N. 0. Daily
tateS.