The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-01-07
DAIRY BETTER THAN COTTON
More Money In 4 Milk from Twenty
Cows Than There Is in Eight
Bales OF the Staple.

consider cotton, not goodly king but
harsh tyrant, writes N. 0. Nelson in
Southern Cultivator. The price of
cotton is mere incidental. 1t is a
slaye.driver and poverty maker, they
say, at any price. It is not material
whether cotton, contrary to all other
commodities, can be forced to a high
price, regardless of the crop. Most
people will say that a low price con-
tinued for several years, will so re-
duce the planting as to make 1t
scarce and thus raise the price, and
that high price will bring so much
planting as to overdo 1t, and reduce
the price. 1t is inevitably see.saw
between high and low prices.
Besides being hard work and poor
pay cotton impoverishes the land as
we'll as the man. 1t makes farmers
poor. There are poor improvements
and few gardens on nine-tenths Of the
cotton farms, small schoolhouses and
short terms, much credit and high
prices for supplies. The universal
verdict is against cotton. J.
| There IS another industry to which
| the south is peculiarly adapted by it's
land and its climate, which pays bet
ter than cotton, is less arduous work,
is less subject to the destructive
weather and seasons, and which stead.
lily improves the land and the farmer.
That is dairying: It Is less work to
raise pasture and feed for 20
COWS, milk them and care for them,
and get at least $1,000 a year out
Of them, than it is to raise eight bales
of cotton, and get from 5000 to $3.50
for 1t.
The fever tick has been a serious
handicap to stock raising in the south.
1t is now well known how to destroy
it. It only requires attention and
union with the neighbors.
Putnam county. Georgia, started an
/ Anti-Tick society the members
agreeing to conform to some simple
rules for eradication. They went to
work and got large number of farm
ers to join it. They sent for the raw
material olmake a wash that will kill
and effectively prevent the ticks.
on any infested farm within the
county.
| Preceding the organization of the
Tick society, there had been organized
and put in successful operation a a.
operative creamery. The creamery as.
ISOLATION was made up of farmers In
| the vicinity of Eatonton, who owned
/ about 400 cows. They signed writ.
ten agreement that for a period Of two
years they would deliver to the cream.
cry, all the milk they produced for
sale. Each milk supplier gets the full
/ proceeds Of the milk and cream
he supplies. They pay for the cost OF
! the creamery by allowing to be re.
tanned a certain per cent. Of the pro.
4 ceeds Of the milk. All farmers are
| eligible to join it. Having thus an as
4 sured market for their milk, and hay.
ing excellent grazing and feed pro.
A ducing land, cows will increase rap
j idly in number. Within a year the
supply of milk will perhaps be doubled
i They get their pay every two weeks
which is new thing for cotton grow,
ters. @
After the creamery had been going
| awhile, there was organized a Credit
society. OF such creamery members as
wished to join 1t. The members So1
]: the society signed an agreement to
Il become jointly liable for money to be
4 borrowed with which to buy cows to
i be sold to its members. They Dor
!. roWed money on this ample responsi
i bility at six per- cent, and can borrow
more as needed They have bought
quite a number Of cows and in the
I; future will bring them in by carloads
from other localities in the state
, where good cows can be found at rea
4 sonable prices. They resell them t
3 the members at auction, the profit be
q longing to the society, ind thus they
accumulate their own capital. one
!. member can get only five cows unit
4 all have been supplied They pay. fol
!. the cows by allowing one gallon q
] milk per day for each COW to be re
.jltained at the creamery to be applied
! on the purchase price. II a COW die.
J the buyer does not have to pay for II
J but 1t is distributed on all the othel
I cows. Title in the cows remains ii th,
I society until paid for. SO there is x
!. risk. 81 III .sEs5
This society enables the farmer {,
\ get money at q cheap rate. It enable!
I 1.-The poor man, who would have d,
) credit at bank, to get productive prop
! erty or capital. It enables each on
\ Ito pay for the cows Ia an easy fash
!. ion, III fact the cows pay for them
: iselves. and their feed besides.
J By coop alive asso ciatfon the farm
Re gets the. benefit Of capita, good husi
:|s3ess nanag cement and the best mar
They set acquainted witt
leach other and become better neigh
Z; bors.