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calves and hogs can be fattened as
by-product. There are now three times
as many farmers shipping cream
there wore in 1860. and the output of the
creameries is more than three times as
great.
In 1900 the total amount of butter pro-
duced in Nebraska was 100000 pounds
and. as have already told you. the total
for 1908 was 35.0O0.0O, while the price
Of butter has increased nearly 10 cents
pound during that period
The farmer receives n cents a pound
for his butter fat because of the cen
or 10 cents a pound under the old method.
A good COW, which costs him s45. will
yield $500 pounds of milk or 1853 pounds
of butter fat. which is worth $50 per
year: the SKINNED milk will be worth an
average of S13. the manure S3-a total of
500 revenue per COW, and the calf in addi
ton. whether 1t is kept for raising or
sold for veal
The average cost of keeping a COW is
$26 year, which. calling the calf worth
Sc, makes the net returns $50 Tor each
COW. i
Probability Of Cows.
The state board of agriculture esti-
mates that a well bred cow ought to pro-
duce from $50 to $40 profit per year, and
in it's bulletins of instruction it impresses
upon the farmers the advantage of get
ting the very best breeds, for one good
COW will bring as much net profit as
thirty-five poor cows, and ten good COWS
as much as $50 poor ones. 1t costs just
as much time and labor to take care of
a poor cow as a good one, and it is an
axiom that the less the 'critter'' is worth
the larger amount of food she will con-
sumo.
Kansas and Missouri and other states
are far ahead of Nebraska in the pro-
duction OF eggs and poultry. but this
state is increasing annually. The farmers
are learning the poultry business, just as
they are learning how to take better care
of their cows and how to get more cream
for the same labor and investment.
You must remember that until recently
Nebraska was almost exclusively cat
tie state and sent her products to the
stockyards instead of the grocery stores.
But as the territory becomes more thick
ly settled the beef cattle are driven far
Their west and the old-fashioned kind of
farming prevails. | am told by the Of
f1cials whose business it is to keep posted
about such things that three years ago
there was not a single man in the state
who gave his entire attention to raising
poultry and eggs, whereas now there are
several hundred, and that feature OF
farming is getting to be More and more
a business throughout the state.
The eggs and live chickens are brought
to town and sold to local merchants,
who act as middlemen and agents for
the packing companies. the cold storage
companies and commission houses which
deal in such things. The Wholesale deal
ers send out postal cards once a week Of
fering prices for the next week or ten
days. The country merchant ships both
eggs and poultry in his own crates to
central station, where the eggs are tested
and graded and either forwarded to city
commission merchants or cold storage
warehouses to be kept for winter
Some of the wholesale dealers have
their own cold storage, but most of them
patroniZe the general warehouses; the re-
grain, the identity of each package is
preserved-that is. the depositor gets his
own eggs and chickens when he calls for
them.
Eggs Bring Good Money.
We used to think that II cents dozen
was high price for eggs at a city
grocery, but they are now bringing from
Is to 20 cents a dozen at the country
stores throughout Nebraska in exchange
for trade, and have not been lower than
Is cents a dozen at wholesale in the
Omaha market for five years. At this
rate one would think that the farmers
would go into the business even more
largely than at present, because the de-
mand is unlimited.
A peculiar product of Nebraska is seed
corn and the bulletin of the state board
of agriculture asserts that 10 per cent OF
all the seed corn planted in this country
comes from this state where il is raised
with the greatest care on scientific prin-
ciples just as it is upon some of the
great farms in Illinois. Large quantities
of alfalfa seed are raised in this state
also for sale through the regular dealers
throughout the prairie and mountain
states and the Pacific slope A great
deal is shipped to Mexico, and thereby the
farmers of Nebraska can properly boast
of the influence they exercise indirectly
upon the prosperity of the rest of the
continent.
In central and western Nebraska be-
yond the Elkhorn valley. are large tracts
OF unoccupied land among the sand hills,
which is sold at much lower prices than
that in other parts of the state because
its value is not appreciated. In this
section farming is combined with ranch
ing.
The valleys contain rich soil which will
produce good crops Of all the staples and
particularly alfalfa. while the sand hills
produce nutritious grasses that are suit
able for horses, cattle and other stock
Some of the most successful illustrations
OF dry farming can be found in that belt
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