Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-04-02
AND THE
DAIRY PRODUCT
By II. A. Hill.

Our state row TANKS ufSo AZ N'J
; ing and it seems to me that the future
development of dairying and STOCK
raising looks very encouraging.
| Practically every farmer in the Bar
!aboo valley is a producer and every
citizen of your city a consumer OF
dairy product.
This great industry should ever be
protected by strict laws prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of cOlored
oleo.
AS to the most profitable breed ct
cattle the, Jerseys, GuernseVs, Brown
Swiss and Holsteins all have their
friends who claim the special purpose
COW to be the most profitable for the
farmer. Others claim that by the
use Of dual purpose animal and
considering beef and milk, better re-
suits are obtained.
We should have more organic alton
in order to improve the breed of cattle
best adapted to our locality. The
Holstein breeders of our county have
such en- association and the Short
Horn people expect to organize soon
The Babcock test la great help to
the dairyman in selecting his most
pro ftable cows.
Silos are now very common, and
comfortable, we'll ventilated barns are
found upon almost every farm at the
present time. Cheese factories, con-
densaiies and private creamery cora
panies all bid for the farmers milk
End cream, all claiming that theirs is
the best proposition. I have been in
formed that the price paid by the
cheese fa ctories and condensaries range
from $1.20 to $1.75 per hundred
for whole milk. I asked farm
er who lived in q locality where
milk was sold how they raised their
| calves and he said, "we veal them and
buy COWS when we want them" Is
it sny wonder that cows are selling
at seventy five to one hundred per
head, beef.becoming more scarce each
year? If a creamery pays 32c per
pound for butter fat, milk that tests
$50 would he worth 1.2l per hun
I,dred. Add to this the value Of
skinned milk, which is at least SOC to
6Oc per hundred, the price received
compares very favorably with that
paid by cheese factories or conden-
saries.
b. lieve the cooperative creamery
to be the :cost profitable way TO han
die our dairy product. The milk is
skim med ty the use of hand separa-
tors and then fed 10 the calves and
pigs while yet warm. The Excelsior
creamery, which is located In your
city, is proving to be a success. They
manufactured more than422, 900 pounds
of butter last year st the expense OF
ST.. S6 rer hundred which YVES far below
the average of the state. Through
this creamery about $114,OOO.0O has
been distributed among The farmers of
this locality in the past year. A large
portion CT this has been
spent in the, tcity of Baraboo,
The margin on butter between pre-
Queer and consumer is very small
when handled by cooperative COM
pany. When the farmer receives 30c
per pound for butter fAt,ss butter is sold
at the creamery for 273c per pound.
Parcel post might be used protitabIy
at the present time to bring producer
and consumer closer together, the rate
in the first zone being sc for the first
pound and 1c per pound fer 'any
amount up to fifty pounds. Ii party
in Madison wanted twenty live POUNDS
of Excelsior butter it would be de-
livered to them by mail for 3Oc.
rhe citizens of Barsboo could assist
us very much in our cooperative en-
terprise by demanding our product.
The Excelsior creamery manufac-
lures ice cream-the quality Of which
of which has never been questioned to
my acknowledgement yet there were
hundreds of gallons of ice cream ship
ped into your city last season. De-
msnd makes the market. We as a
city and country community should
be interested In the welfare of each
other.
We are interested In the growth and
prosperity of our city, for through
YOUR inhabitants there Is demand for
our product. We are deeply interested
| in the moral and educational depart
ment of your city, for as yetg we must
send our boys and girls to your schools
to continue their education. l wish
that there could be course of study
arranged in your schools that would
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