Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1910-05-20

arr COWS, t"ouOy oso A0AA01S IueaO W IL
come in milk within the next year,
and twenty are heifers under one
The sales from the herd last ear,
1909, amounted to 50, 976.97 The
sales were as follows: Butter, 1887. 68 ;
cream, ST, 1872 50; milk, $67. 80; butter
milk, $13 81; surplus stock, $5O1. 06.
These we're actual sales, the herd not
credited with the butter and cream
used on the farm. No fancy or special
prices were received, everything being
sold at prices received by farmers on
the same market.
OF the thirty cows MIXED six were
heifers with their first calves and did
not begin their milking period until
the middle OF the year. With the ex-
cepti)n of SIX COWS (pure bred), the
cows are representative of the COM
mon cows of Northeastern Minnesota
(the aim being to show what can be
done with common cows).
Every farmer IN Northeastern
Minnesota can, in few years, pulld
up a herd cf ten COWS that Will
average as productive and profitable
as the Experiment Farm herd.
The production of the Experiment
Farm dairy herd will be taken up
more in detail in a later bulletin,
individual records, kinds Of feed, care,
feeding, etc.
The aim of this bulletin would be to
encourage a greater effort toward the
development Of the dairy industry,
where 1t is not receiving attention,
anG to point out a few things upon
which the success of dalrying in
Northeastern Minnesota must depend.
First-1he production Of more feed {:
fodder corn, roots and clover hay.
The buying of feed at prevailing
price very quickly reduces the profits
in dairylng.
Second-Stop selling the heifers for
beef IN the fall. Nearly every day I
receive letters from farmers asking
where they can buy cows this time Of
year. I don't know. Good dairy cows
are not for sale at a price that pioneer
farmers can afford to pay. The only
practical way to get herd of pro-
fitable dairy cows is to raise them.
Club together ana buy pure bred
dairy sire IN every community and
raise the future dairy stock.
Frequently the question of cream.
cry comes up in different sections
and the objection is soon raised that
there are not enough cows. There
never will be while the helfers are
sold for beef land at five and six cents
a pound). Butter sold from the Ex-
pertinent Farm at the grocery store
averaged thirty-one cents per pound
during 1909.
Third-Ihe foundation of the dairy
;c Fo
creamery. The local market can buy
the products Of a few herds. but when
every farmer In the community IS
dalrying the jar and print butter
becomes drug on the market. With
the creamery. the butter of two
hundred herds can be packed in tubs,
put on board the car and sold in New
York with less trouble to the farmer
than selling a ive-pound jar at the
grocery store
Creameries are being built in North
eastern Minnesota, though net as
many as there should be. Some of the
creameries in Northeastern Minnesota
are forging ahead to be among the
first in the state. Others are struggl-
ing hard to exist, due to lack OF
patronage, and not lnfrequently lack
OF appreciation and support.
If could would place the follow
ing lines where every farmer in
Northeastern Minnesota might read
them every day for year:
The dairy industry is the most
profitable branch OF all agriculture,
and it may be made as protita bic in
Northeastern Minnesota as anywhere
on earth.''
The high price of butter enjoyed by
every. farmer who sells It is largely
due to the farmers cooperative