The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1909-04-20

| thousand dOllars- 10 Is not surDrisin.r
then that under such conditions an en-.
terprise which depends largely upon
practical men To pa, IL on profitable
oasis should TAIL Creaneries established
In this way don't necessarily fail bnt
there Is everything against their succeed.
ing, matters are different ia the stata
now; with the office Of Dairy Comtnis
siOnes and his staff Of ~ uerts whose sole
Interest in this matter IL thedeveloppent
Oi this important industry, We can feel
| that when a creamery isestRblished with
| the approval OF this Office that IL has "A
reasonable ASSURANCE Of SUCCESS This
has certainly been true Of the creamery
which has been operated at the college
a. Blacksburg for some ten years nov.
Your Dairy Commissioner has had
charge OF this creamery since it's estRb-
lishment. 1t has been demonstrated at
this creamery that milk and cream can
he successfully prepared and shipped TO
points than can Ice reached within thirty
SIX hours after shipment il made from
the creamery; cheese and butter have
also been made at this creamery i'm "A
commercial way as good IA any that
comes into the State. Since the estab-
llshment OF the office OF Dairy and Food
4 Commissioner, creamery has been put
into operation at Burkeville and the
work which has been done at Blacks
burg Tor some years has been Duplicated
at the Burkeyille creamery. they have
been shipping cream all over the State OF
Virginia and North Carolina aud getting
Tor 1t an equivalent of 1Oceuts erpound
for butter fat. They have sold their but
ter uniformly at about - cents a
pound, and their prospects for business
FOR the summer are very good. All the
| me bfa a /.
uct through this creamery arr very much
enthused over the business. Co-opera-
ton in this line OF work has been sug-
gested TO persons who may be- thinking
OF going into this business, the cream
cries are proposed 10 be built and equip-
ped by subscriptions made by the farm
ers who propose supplying milk to the
creamery. We think il best To have all
the producers interested in this way in
the enterprise The office of the Dairy
aud Food Commissioner proposes to
give such assistance as il can in building
aud equlpping these creameries, thereby
saving 10 the cO-OperatOrs the increased
cost which wOnld be incurred if someone
should b. paid To attend to this for
them, and especially IL this person were
Interested in the sale of the equipment.
A bulletin recently issued from the de
partment ut Washington amongst other
things states that there are 80 cities in
the South buying about five hundred
thousand dollars worth OF dairy prod
ucts yearly which are supplied for the
most part from States other than those
in which these cities are located. This
indicates what an opportunity there is
for you in the dairy business; the demand
IL right at your door; your competitors
have the advantage of you simply be-
cause OF the TACT that they may have
better cows than you can start out with
You can in few years 80 breed your
animals that you will have COWS equal
to any in the country. When you get
cows equal To your competitors, youcan
beat them in the production Of dairy
products. | refer to those located in
states north Of us We have "A better
climate, IA milder climate. Ii is not nee
essary to build such costly stables; we
do not have TO keep our animals In barns
so long: this Tact will lessen tile danger
OF tuberculosis spreading through
herd from one or more animals suffering
from the disease. Our Northern dairy
men are beginning to realize that they
must not keep their COWS in such close
stables When it il necessary TO keep
them in stable they find that they must
have more air space, more light. better
ventilation than they now have, and
also that II is best to have them out In
the open air as much as possible.
We can for the most part have our
cows out of the stable. aud IL is only
necessary to stable them in winter when
We have very severe weather, go YOU ZEE
we have the advantage over our com
petitors when We may be placed on the
same basis as to the cows.
Dairying more than anything else Is
conducted to the Improvement OF the
soil. When we may have a herd OF cows
that Will pay US a profit over and above
what we may feed them, then we can
supply what We may not produce on
our farms in the way Of feed and feel
that we are not using same at loss.
To the extent that legurnes are grown
we are improving our soil 10y adding the
nitrogen supplied by these crops, but
when we feed a ton of cotton seed meal
we are adding about 500 worth of fer
tility in addition A car load of cotton
seed meal, and herd of go cows would
consume this amount, would add about
$500 worth Of fertility To the soil il the
manure from feeding this meal was saved
and put on the land. Those of you who
have used fertilizers will understand
what the addition OF $500 worth of fer
tilizer means Did il ever occur to you
that cotton seed meal is largely used in
the preparation of fertilizers, and that
you who are buying fertilizers are buy
ing cotton seed meal at a cost of not less
than $50 a ton. 1t cost about $25 at
the mill, and after it is manipulated and
the profit added, you pay about $50.
lou could buy it as feed for about 500,
and after feeding 1t and getting the bene-
fit OF it as feed, get about the same value
/ a a a -. =.
"a much more available form. Iourcows
will also manipulate almost anything
you may grow and give you two val
liable products-miik and manure An
average COW should produce about 175
pounds oil butter per year, and about
/ $500 pounds OF milk. II butter sells for
80 cents we will get for the butter from
this average cow about $50 We will
have about $500 pounds OF milk which
will raise the calf and supply some add
/ tional feed for pigs Say the calf will be
worth 50. We will have about $15 to
be added to the amount received for the
butter, carrying the total up to $75
The manure is another item which is va
riously estimated and varies in value &C
cording tn what is fed to thecows Cor
nell after investigating this matter has
put the value OF manure from cows at
$50 II We put this at say $25, we have
a gross income from our COW OF about
| 800. Now you can readily see that
this can be materially increased by in
creasing the production Of your cows;
IT'S pounds OF butter is a very low esti-
mate. The average which we would find
II our cows were examined would be
from about $50 to $50, and In some
cases up to 400. If We could increase
this production to $50 pounds OF butter