Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-07-18
OPEN LETTER TO
CREAMERY PATRONS
Dear SIR

Dear Sill
Omaha is growing. Are you?
In other words, are you taking adj
vantage of the opportunities that
growing metropolis like Omaha Of
fers you? Omaha is no longer
small town that gets all of it's milk
supply within driving distance, al
though most of our milk is still
hauled to our plant every morning.
Ii these farmers within a stones
throw of Omaha, on land worth
$500 to $500 per acre, CAN MAKE
MONEY SELLING MILK, you can
do likewise.
Milk is brought in from dis
ing charge ON some of it is GREAT
Err THAN THE FREIGHT WOULD
BE ON THE MILK SHIPPED FROM
YOUR STATION, therefore you can
not say you are too far away. Your
train will bring it in just as fast
40 or SO miles, as wagon can go
10 to 10.
Your milk will NET YOU JUST
AS MUCH at your station as it will
the Omaha farmer, on the pavement
or on the road. Your milk deliv-
cred here is WORTH JUST AS
MUCH AS HIS.
We are going to put on fey
more shippers. We have several
uses to which we can put the milk,
also know OF some more business
that can be developed.
Will you be one of those to take
hold of this chance?
We will state to you roughly
what some of our patrons are doing.
They have COWS that give 800 lbs.
of butter fat per year. A COW, to
make that much, must give three
gallons of milk per day, 81 to 3.S
percent average test. And you
have COWS right on your place now
that gives 4 gallons per day, and
would give it right along if you
gave them plenty of good feed all
the time. OF course, that would
naturally do. the same as you would
keep full power on a threshing ma
chine. There would be no money
running threshing machine on
half-power or keeping it idle three
fourths of the day. That is what
people do with their COWS when
they feed them all they want on
pasture only three or four months
of the year.
Our price in winter is As cents per
pound, butter fat, FOB OMAHA. In
summer, from 35 to 3S cents, de-
pending on the price of butter. Say
it will average you 35 cents FOB
your station. 800 pounds butter
fat at S5 cents per pound, is $1O5.
per COW. Surprising, isn't it? Is
it not about time you were taking
| advantage of this opportunity?
Thereby saving the labor of separ-
ating and a big item is the loss of
butter fat in skim milk, for which
you get paid when you ship it as
whole milk, and last, but not least,
less work for the women folks.
We hear some of you say that
the skim milk cannot be spared.
We have farmers who Make
ENOUGH MORE OUT OF THE
MILK (than they could out of
cream) than the entire drove of
hogs would be worth at the time
| of their sale. In other words, the
$500 or $500 extra per year that
you make out of a herd of Is to
20 cows, may be entirely lost thru
| cholera, ETC., when fed into a herd
| of hogs. You get your money once
a year out of the hogs Every two
weeks or oftener, if you wish, out
of the milk.
We do not mean to say it is ne
cessary to quit raising hogs. You
| know of some of the good hog rails
ers in your country who have only
a few cows on the place. Then 1t
is also quite often the case that
we gladly have you keep the skim
milk home during the time that you
are starting your young pigs. Sweet
cream, for which we pay premi-
UNI of 3 cents, can be shipped us
at that time.
| Now then, you may say that your
COWS will not give 800 pounds of
butter fat per year. That may be
true. In reply we will say if you
| had any boarders around your home
who did not pay for their board,
you would get rid of them. That
you should do with your star board
er COWS also. We will help you
pick out the poor ones by testing
them for you. You should no more
think of TRYING TO KEEP COWS