Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-08-08
kslAt sIIat HaAHH Up taAaF

Highland county Why should
Highland have Board Of Trade?
Not because we have no railroads,
not because the county is small NOT
because the county seat is small;
but because it will encourage such
industries as will bring greater
wealth, prosperity, and content,
uent to the people of this grand
Old county. Hence railroad men
as we'll as other fnanciers will look
up and take notice when Highland
raises herself up to the present-day
progress.
There are many latent resources
in this county. I am glad that the
writer of the article put creamerles
first on his list of some of the latent
recources. know of no county
better suited to dairying than High
land. We don't ne essarily have
to keep Jerseys, Guernseys or Hol-
stien in order to run a dairy or
help supply a creamery. These
COWS will come, but not soon. The
ideal cow at present, and in fact for
all times. is the milking strain of
short-horns or dairy short-horns.
The beef aud milking strain are
registered in the same herd book
We all know that short-horn COWS
that give the most milk raise the
best calves. So there is nothing
against the short-horn COW that
gives plenty Of milk.
Creamery butter can be made on
the farm if the farmers wife has a
cream Sc ,arator that separates the
cream from the milk as soon as the
COWS are MIXED, a good churn, a
good one pound brick butter mould
and number of heavy cartoon
papers with sheet of parchment
paper for each. Such butter should
sell for thirty cents per pound CON
tract price for the year. Many farm :
ers will findi it profitable to sell their
butter through the parcel post dl-
.ect to the consumer, There IS lit
tie if anything to be gained by keep
ing a cow a whole year just to
raise a calf, or often the strippings
from several co.'s are needed to
supply the family table. Why not
raise good calves and get plenty of
milk besides, or make plenty OF
good butter or sell cream to the
creamery? A Board of Trade could
get you a market for your butter
and cream.
Another enterprise that would be
profitable to the average family in
Highland because it could be start
ed with a very small capital and
little or no experience, is cannery
| The family who lives on small
farm could raise their own fruits
and vegetables to can. Canning
outfits range from five dollars for
home use up to twenty or twen-
ty-five dollars for small factory
use. The tin cans and labels would
cost little in proportion to the SELL
ing price of the canned products.
Highland county uses considerable
canned goods hauled from StaGn-
ton and Barlow. A cannery in the
county should sell its products to
merchants at the regular wholesale
price plus the hauling of Scots.
to 81 90 per hundred pounds. The
lumber camps on the border line
could be supplied with home canned
goods.
Summer hotels would encourage
capitalists to stop with US, make
their home with us and probably
open up some unthought-of indus
try, and at the same time open the
eyes of the county people to their
lack of faith and energy and to the
progress of this Goth century.
A small ice plant and laundry
would be profitable if run together
in some building or separate.
Another enterprise for the farmer
to engage in could be hog raising IN
connection with good milk COWS.
Fl can arrange to have two filters
of pigs a year and have some hogs
ready for the market at any time
during the year to sell on foot when
the market is right. So Board
of Trade could get up a reputation
for Highland hams or breakfast ba-
con. Some farmers could make
speciality of raising early maturing
hogs and sell his cured meats direct
to the consumer through the parcel
post.
Why shouldn't Highland farmers
have silos and have their cattle fat
when the market is at it's height?
Why shouldn't she have silos to fall
back on during dry seasons when
pastures are short thereby grazing
more cattle than before? Why
shouldn't she feed silage to her
milk COWS and make as much bu t.
ter through the winter as through
the summer? Why not keep your
calves, yearlings and two year olds
growing in healthy condition all
t,rouoh the winter? WHY not feed