The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-07-15

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Is very interesting to me to see this
great and rich country. Idaho is 10
times as big as Denmark.
There are 100000 farmers selling
milk in Denmark, of these only 1000
are largo farmers; $4,000 of these
farmers have farms up to 100 acres:
100000 farmers of Denmark have
only 5 to 10 acres each, and a few Of
them have 20 acres each. 1t is neces-
sary for these small farmers to fol-
low dairying as a means of making a
living.
In 1882 the first cooperative
creamery started in Denmark. 1t
cost about $4,000. 1t proved very
successful. Cooperative creameries
became numerous between 1882 and
1890. Now we have 1900 co-opera-
tive creameries in Denmark. Very
few of the farmers there make butter
al home. There are SO creameries on
the big farms of Denmark and about
1850 private creameries, making
total of 400 creameries in Denmark.
The farmers milk mornings, moons
and nights in Denmark. As soon as
the milk is brought to the creameries
1t is separated, pasteurized and the
separated milk is returned to the
farmer who take 1t home and use It
for household purposes as we'll as
for feeding calves, pigs, etc. The
milk at the creamer!es is pasteurized
at high temperatures.
Denmark butter is uniform in quail
ity Two hundred million pounds Of
butter are now annually produced in
Denmark. In Denmark we also have
IS cooperative pig butchers. Den
mark has greatly increased its pro-
duction of pigs.
Denmark also has cooperative egg
concerns. Eight million dollars
worth of eggs are annually shipped
from Denmark to England. Denmark
also has cooperative COW testing as
sociations.
We produce the most uniform
quality of butter, hogs, and eggs, and
for each we get the highest market
prices in England.
The Danish farmers enter agree
ments to sell all their milk to the
creameries. This is very important.
1t insures better quality of butter.
Now there are 100000 dairy cows
in Denmark.
The cooperative creameries in
Denmark made it possible for the
small farmer to get the same quality
of milk as the big farmers. We can
not grow corn in Denmark, but we
grow turnips, carrots. and other roots
for the cows. We buy oil cakes In
all parts of the world, paying out
about $2O,OOO,O 900 yearly in Denmark
| for oil cake.
We have improved our cows in
Denmark in the past rs years by
selection. We have 1900 cattle breed
ing associations in Denmark. The
Improbable cows are sold and killed.
The most profitable cows are kept.
Now the amount of milk and butter
production in Denmark is twice as
great as 1t was rs years ago.
Danish Cows are Small.
In Denmark we use the Danish
cows of two different kinds. Our
cows arc not as large as the cows In
this country. We raise lots of heit,
ers. The poor ones are sold. The
best ones are kept as long as IA, Is,
16 to II years olds and we try to
raise as many daughters from these
good cows as possible. We never sell
good cow in Denmark. One hun
bred to $3.50 is the cost of a good
milch cow in Denmark. Most of the
steer calves in Denmark are sold at
to months of age for veal. We
feed these calves fresh milk for the
first three weeks and then we feed
them SKINNED milk until to 8
months old, when they are sold.
The milk in Europe requires 25
pounds of milk to one pound of but
ter. Europe milk is not as rich as
American milk. Good land in Den
mark is worth 5000 per acre. We
get 26 cents a pound for Danish but
ter. l would like to see American
butter sell as high as S5 to 40 cents
pound. SKINNED milk IN Denmark
is worth 80 cents per 100 pounds.
The Danish cows only weigh from
900 to 1000 pounds each. We pre-
fer cows with short legs. big stom-
achs and big teats. We have plenty
of roots to feed each COW through the
winter with roots each day. We pre-
fer to use three or four kinds of oil
cake for feeding cows. summer and
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