Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-05
farm and firesidr.
pairyina BRINGS ProsperitY.


tation of dairying in the south and
west, by H. Nj. Cottrell, commissioner
of agriculture of the Rock Island Rail-
way system. The issue also contained
three articles upon the same subject
by the editor, Alvin r. Steinel, and
one by A. D. McNair, all of them
handsomely illustrated with views of
model dairy establishments and dairy
animals. These articles cover the en-
tire subject of dairying. from the Sc
lection of the profitable COW. to the
marketing of the dairy products, and
finally, in open letter. Mr.. Cottrell
says:
Mr.. Dairyman: Dairying has made
your section prosperous. The money
made from the cows has built your
good farm houses and barns and fur
nishing them, has sent the children to
college and is the bulk of the large
deposits in your banks.
You made all this money with mod
crate prices for dairy products and
with long, severe winters that requir-
ed not only all the feed that you could
raise in the summer, but as much
more that you had to buy.
The price of dairy products is high
er, the winter several months shorter
and the cost of land and feed less in
the south, and southwest along the
Rock Island lines, With your skill in
selecting, feeding and handling dairy
cows. you can make 50 there for ev-
cry 81 you are now making. Investi-
gate.
Colorado-Offcial records show that
Colorado has 800 days of sunshine
each year. The altitude is high, the
air pure and dry. Just the place to
bring back health to your wife or
daughter whose lungs are weak. Den
yer and Colorado Springs are two OF
the highest priced markets in the
world for milk and butter. In both
places butterfat In sweet milk and
cream bring about 40 cents pound
the year round. Butterfat in sour
cream averages over 80 cents pound
In eastern Colorado dry land forage
crops that make cows give large yields
never fail and many farmers grow al
falfa.
Kansas-Dairying made western
Kansas, providing good cash incomes
in years when wheat failed, and leav-
ing for investments or deposits in the
bank the immense returns the wheat
brought in good years. This Is a
country of schools, churches, rural
mail routes, rural telephones and good
roads.
The Panhandles, Oklahoma and Tex
as-A dry farming country where the
crops that never fail make good milk
producing feeds, and dairy products
are not sufficient to meet the demand.
Dairying insures the new settler a
steady income from the day he starts
in his new home. Poultry and hogs
on dry land feeds add to the profits.
The winters are shorter and the sum-
mers warmer than in Colorado.
Oklahoma-Centrala and eastern Ok
lahoma is the home of alfalfa and corn,
one of the best combinations for cheap
dairy production. They need silos and
silage down there, and you know how
to make both.
Missouri-Central Missouri has the
only cheap, rich land in the corn belt.
st. Louis is at one end of the Rock
Island lines in Missouri and Kansas
City at the other. Two markets with
unlimited demand for all dairy pro-
ducts. Soil, climate and markets just
right; location in the center of the
United States.
Arkansas-Butterfat AZ cents a.
pound last January; average 35 cents
a pound during the year 1910. Good
land S5 to SIS an acre. Nine months
pasture a year. The people know
nothing about how to select a dairy
cow that will make money. On many
of their cows the underline slopes up
from the forelegs 10 the udder-a good
type for speed but mighty shy on milk.
With your skill in selecting cows, you
can make $50 net profit per COW per
year. Western Arkansas is also the
.
land of the red apple.
IIouisiana-Not a single town on the
Rock Island lines has enough milk,
cream or butter. l was in Louisiana
last summer when the people in Chi
cago and New York were dying of
heat. Down there the thermometer
did not go above sc degrees. The mid
die of February l held outdoor meet
ings, the men in shirt sleeves and the
women wearing roses that bloomed
outdoors At that time you were
shoveling a path through the snow
from your house to the barn and
warming the water your cows drank.
Cheap land, root crops growing all
winter, corn IS feet high-think what
silage it would make! My wife was
born in Ohio and has always lived in
the north, yet when she got to Louis
lana she felt that she had gotten back
to her home people. Your wife will
feel the same way. Louisiana people
spell welcome" in capitals.
Mr.. Dairyman, it is up to you to
get on to the Rock Island lines. 1t will
pay YOU.