The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-06-17
CREAMERY HAS SURPLUS STOCK
Churn About 800 Pounds a Week
Farmers Bringing In More Cream
Every Day.
DOES YOU cow MAKE GOOD?
Proper Feeding Has Much to Do With
the Ability Of An Animal to .
Earn its Living.

At meeting of the directors of the
Bemidji Creamery association held
in the creamery Monday afternoon
matters were discussed regarding the
disposition of the surplus butter stock.
E. c. Stiles, butter maker will make
a trip to International Falls Wednes-
day and he is of the opinion that this
city will take care of all surplus
stock. Bemidji butter tests with the
best butter made in this section of the
country. 1t was entered in the six
months education contest instituted
by the state dairy and food commits
sion and scored 9OA There were 800
entries and 215 scored ninety, while
los did not reach that mark.
The farmers are becoming fast
friends of the local institution and
are becoming aware of the advantages
of bringing their cream to this mar
ket. The creamery churns about 1900
pounds of butter each week, most of
which is being disposed of locally.
Mr.. Stiles said today:
"Too many farmers throughout the
country do not know exactly what
their cows are earning them and the
faster they learn that the cow. does
or does not earn it's board the better. =:
The following NAV be ef material
benefit: - ,
In an address, Professor Hugh G.
Van Pelt, of Waterloo, Iowa, said,
I'm too many instances, the pro-
Queer of milk and butter fat has
overlooked the Importance of reduc-
ing his operations to strictly bust
ness basis. This is demonstrated by
the fact that so often he refuses to
apply bushes principle and even
holds them up to scorn as being theo-
retical, scientific and impractical. He
has refused fundamentals which have
made millionaires and leaders of men
in other lines of industry. The truth
of this is evidenced by the fact that
of the millions of cows now being
MIXED in the United States only one
out of three on the average returns
a profit. Therefore, in dealing with
this subject of feeding cows for great
and economical results, if l can make
impressive the fact that real success
depends upon reducing the feeding of
cows to a basis governed by the in
telligent and thoughtful application
of business detail, your time will not
have been wasted.
AS a matter of fact, the farms of
the United States are her greatest fac
tories. Every COW is kept there as a
machine of cerain capacity and effic-
iency, for the purpose of converting
raw materials-the grains and
grasses which grow in the fields
intoa finished commodity of com.
merce. The value of each machine
should be measured by the amount of
feed she can consume and convey pro-
fitally into milk and butter fat. To
determine this point it is necessary
for the dairyman to weigh and test
the milk at intervals sufficiently close
to determine the relative merits O.
individuals from the production
standpoint, and determining the
amount and cost of feed she con-
sumes, he is prepared to say which
is the profitable COW and which is the
loafer, provided he has given the an.
imals the opportunity for producing
their maximum Yield. The fact that
two-thirds of the cows being MIXED
are Improbable, does not indicate
that these cows are all poor individ'
uals and so poorly bred as to be un'
able to yield profit. Proper feeding
alone would suffice to make profitable
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