Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-11-13
K cows PAY.
Farmers Could make Good Money on
Cows by Cooperation.

and Ind fault, SO says EIDerl F1uD-
bard. If every farmer would tack
this motto on his COW lot gate where
he could not help but see it every time
he went TO milk it would mean doll
lars in his pocket every year,
There is a wonderful money-making
opportunity in North Carolina for =
few good dairy cows on each farm.
However, the facts are that very lew
farmers are making n penny out
side of the milk and butter consumed
Oh the farm.
Frequently small dairies have been
started but failed because the expense
exceeded the income. Cooperative
eIeameries have been started by the
farmers but in most cases have failed
for the lack of an experienced head.
or every one in the association wanted
to direct the management and none
was capable of managing. This is
not true in all cases of cooperative
dairies but in many.
These experiences have been SO
common that many farmers use the
COW for manure value alone, when he
should be getting double returns.
The only way / see where the farm
ers can make money out of a dairy
COW is through cooperation and as
sisting his neighbors. Suppose you
are milking four cows and selling the
butter fat to a local creamery. The
COWS average, say SO a month for
butter fat, which would be $1.33 a
day. You have to haul this to town
every other day for the small sum of
$3.50. The expense of getting it to the
creamery would prohibit the business,
hence you use what milk you can at
home, throw the balance away and
work one hour later each day in the
cotton field.
Suppose 20 farmers were to join IN
together and employ some person to
carry their cream to town every other
lay. The results would be quite diff
ferent. One man could take in the
cream of 20 farmers about as easily
as for one. He takes it t o the cream
ely, the buyer has to deal with only
one man instead of 20, which means
a great saving to the creamery. Nine
teen men are left to work on their
farms. The twentieth man comes
back with $53.2O instead of $2.66. Sup
pose you pay 81 to get the cream to the
creamery, it would be only 20 cents
q which would mean a clear profit
of $2.46. every other day on your
req from four COWS or $442.SO a
year after ~deducting transportation
expenses. Four hundred and forty
two dollars an deighty cents would
come in mighty handy about Christ
mas time.
The Renter.
1t has been often asked how a the
renter help himself to better condi-
tons? This milk cooperation gives
equal advantage to the renter as to
the land owner, for most any person
d keep four good cows and the cost
of shelter for that number is no.
great. If at my time they should
move the COWS could be taken with
them. 4sB
The advantage from their anu
will help the renter as much as the
owner. Four hundred dollars addi-
tional income each year will start
most any renter towards a little farm
of his own.
Business Applied.
Where the owner of a few cows
fails. is that he says, eff had a large
herd of cattle 1 would keep records
of my COWS but l only have four and
that will not be necessary as l can
keep up with them" The trouble is,
however, he does not. There is only
one way to do a thing and that is the
right way. There is only one right
way and that applies to four COWS
Just as it applies to 400 cows.
Three controlling factors enter into
the success of handling dairy cows:
The keeping of milk records ; select
ton and breeding based on the results
obtained by milk records, and a close
study of the economy of feeding.
These three factors apply to North
Carolina as we'll as Michigan or New
York. 1t takes but a minute to weigh
and put down the amount and nothing
via awaken an interest in his COWS
quicker than keeping up with what
they are doing and the results of diff
ferent feeds upon their milk. Anoth-
ed thing keeping records will do, and
that 10 raising food IN tho farm n