The farmer and mechanic., 1912-09-03

pany is giving its product, was the
next best thing
Prior TO this hour, however there I
nad been parade OF the fine ami I
mails and an inspection of them that !
Vas OF considerable interest It was
the animal morning In the language
or one farmer, there were some /
mighty good pieces on the COW and
the haWg.
Dairying.
When President Shuford presented
Helmer Rabild. Of the United States
Department of Agriculture. he precip-
ltated an amusing controversy byesay-
! ing: 'Dairying ought to interest you
Eastern people who are in the habit
| Of sending your stuff North. having
the flies and hairs strained through it.
a little milk added and buying it back
at 40 cents Uaughter.)
]. H Newborn, Of Kinston, was up
| in minute. The gentleman oughtn't
| to throw off the East he said \
I'VE have just as good butter as Mr..
Shuford makes and l am a dairyman
myself
Il know you are and good one"
Mr.. Shuford said, but it is true that
| these Yankees have been putting off
on US lot OF stuff just because they
have taught it to ride on the train"
more laughter.)
But they don't ship any of it to
u.s." Mr.. Newborn said. We eat our
own butter" Another jumped up
and said he had eaten some Of the
best butter at one hotel in kinston
and the worst at another Mr.. New
born said one of the hotels could not
afford to buy his butter But it
charges me IS cents for a meal" Mr.
ShufOrd said.
From the upstairs the crowd moved
down to the library in the interest of
quiet.
The Dairy Lay.
Mr.. Rabild expressed great pleasure
at coming here He told the audience
that he was born in Denmark and
there he learned all that he knows OF
the business. Il am 50 enthusiastic
over dairying that / sometimes feel
like paraphrasing a hymn to read
II want to be dairyman
And with the dairy stand.
Straw hat upon my forehead
And milk pail in my hand" "
You have made very Consid derabie
progress in this line here in North
Carolina. In 1900 you had $4,000
\ COWS, but the next ten years showed
that YOU had 3OS,OO0, gaining 81 per
cent In 1900 YOU made $1,000
pounds, but in 1910 your product:
amounted to 26,0O0,000. a gain Of 6:
per cent, This is Il very tine showing
! The dairy business is thing il
which | feel that | can advise one:
going into unqualifiedly. wouldn'
speak SO of any other. Fruit farm
and beef cattle are good businesses
but they are always subject to f1uctua
tons, to excesses and shortn esses an,
you often see men who have gOn
broke in these great occupations. No
so with the dairy business. First o
all, it is cash business. Your none
<l{. toI,y i
have to wait. AS one of my neigh
DOrs said, | go to one end and fee'
my COW and then so to the other en-
(making a motion as milking) an
draw my pay. I.auEhter.D
Tied to Cows Tail.
They used to tell it that one 0
the bankers Of Michigan was partia
to dairymen and | think it was true
1t the farmer applied for loan. tn
banker looked through the wicker t
see if there was milk on his boots.
there wasn't, the banker shook hi
head and said money is might
scarce, but I may let you have it wit
a couple Of good endorsers.' tn
reason was good, the dairymen wer
t always making money.
IS But they say that if everybod
2 goes into the business. it will soon b
OVerstocked. won't it? Besides. it
le cOnhning. the say. one man de
1t clares that he doesn't like to be tie
TO a cows tail e63 days in the year
\. Well, it is confining. But you needn
~ fear OVERRIDING it, VS. have bee
preaching more dairieS Is years. |
that time. have seen butter g
=, from II cents to 40 cents pount
IA . The population has increased NOR
- rapidly than the COW population. w
&c barely raise enough for our own con
sumption. Besides. there is an ever
a increasing demand for dairy product.
y You have to use process butter an
s. alio We haven't nearly reached tn
III limit Remember that there is NOR
L ice cream made. more milk drum
We there are more demands eserywheI
a. for it. You needn't fear overstoCk
r ing
O.
a Mr. Rabild was asked about tn
wild onion as the dairy pest II
ne sa id the onion could be eradicated b
ne alternate deep and shallow plowins