The Mena weekly star., 1910-02-10

MAKING COW s PAY
The Value of a Creamery to Com muuity as Shown by Experience.

It has been fully demonstrated that it costs much less to produce ton of butter than ton of wheat, corn or oats
 Why? Because careful experi- ments have proven that to produce ton of wheat you take from the fertility of your soil about $6 in value, oats $7 and corn about the same, while in producing. a ton of butter it is estimated that only 47 cents actual fertility has been taken from the soil. this by grazing or cropping of the grass by the cows. On the other hand 1t is demonstrated that fertilizers deposited by the cows in producing this ton of butter are worth to the fertility of the soil something like $50, or $1.50 for each 100 pounds of butter produced
 At the present high price your ton of wheat will bring about $35, corn S25 and oats $26, while your ton of butter or butter fat at creamery will bring $500. In producing this ton of butter fat you have greatly added to the fertility of the soil If we don't know we are sure to learn by very dear experience that we must build up our soil instead of continually exhausting it by growing these exhausting crops.
 You can grow calves while pro- ducing this ton of butter, which will go great way toward buying win ter feed for your COWS. This can be successfully done on skinned milk after the butter fat has been extracted from it by separation. This separated milk cannot be com pared to the so-called Blue John" or milk that has had to stand for the cream or fat to raise, and as a consequence the sugar and solids of the milk have become destroyed by acid fermentation and really not fit for hnman use. On the other hand all these solids, sugar, casino, etc., are pure and sweet and for table drinking or for the feeding of calves or growing of pigs it is al- most as valuable as before the cream fat was extracted.
 Going back to these three staples our farmers are in the habit of pro- ducing in Polk county, we find that there is really no comparison and 1 say, why not commence a line of farming that will build up your farms and at the same time put the red figures on the right side of your bank account. Commence right now by applying these business methods to your farming by giving the dairy business a fair trial. I have been greatly encouraged since coming here in finding some of our most successful and up-to-date farm CTS spending their money literally in the effort to improve the quality of their hogs and cattle. Friend, this is a step forward, and to you who are not able to do these things by all means encourage by your liberal patronage these men who have taken the lead.
 Having lived in Arkansas for 30 years and at all times been more or less identified with the dairy busi- ness, being one of the stockholders of the first creamery erected and ope- rated in North Arkansas 23 years ago, I am prepared to prove that it will pay any intelligent farmer to get out of the old ruts that wear out and destroy his land and take hold of the dairy business, for which this country is so eminently fitted.
 Why not investigate this dairy proposition. You can begin in a small way and work up and try and learn more of the great advantages and wonderful results that have been accomplished through the dairy business and a creamery in neigh boring states. In many ways we have an ideal dairy country. Polk county is high, with a mild climate, an abundance of fine spring water and large area of broken or hilly land which could be turned to good account as grazing land. We cannot we'll lay claim that our farms are too valuable for dairying, as the statistics show that the rich, high priced land of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Texas are being so used to advantage.
 But if we should turn our atten- tion to dairying. where and how about market?
 We'll, we are going to have a creamery and buy all your milk and cream. either at the creamery or stations on the railroad, where you will get the highest price in cash for your product.
 Get busy. Yours truly,
 c. F. Wilsey, late of Sloan Springs
 Creamery Company.