Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-07-08

Copenhagen, Denmark.-This Is q
great farming country. Every square
foot of land Is utilized. There Is al
most no waste land. In America you
will find here and there a scientific
farmer. Here every farmer is scien-
tttic farmer. He knows farming, and,
thanks to cooperation, he knows mar
keting as we'll. Every cow is a good
COW, giving good quantity of good
milk. Not only is the milk good when
It leaves the COW but if it goes to the
city it goes promptly and is still good
milk when it is delivered. II It Is
made into butter it becomes good but
ter and reaches the consumer in the
best possible form. The pigs too are
high grade. AS they move to market
they appear to be all of uniform color,
size, shape, and quality, for each con-
forms to type proved by experiment
tation to be the best for the purposes
to which they are devoted.
Every farmer analyses his soil. fer
tilizes his fields, and rotates hts crops
according to the best principles OF
soil conservation. In America you &C.
casionally see such farming and such
farmers; here you see nothing else.
Medium Sized Farm.
What appears to be the home Of a
well-to-do farmer upon q medium
sized farm is our first point of at
tack.
We find the buildings including
dwelling, stables, granary, hay shed
and other outbuildings arranged
around square court. All except the
dwelling house are rooted with thatch
which although it seems to be in good
condition the farmer assures us il
twenty years old. Everything ex-
hibfts the utmost neatness. The sta
bles. poultry houses and pig shelters.
are all as clean as the nature of their
use permits, while the house itself is
immaculate.
The former owner of the farm is
dead. The widow and children now
occupy the place. OF three sons, one
is In Copenhagen and is to leave the
farm permanently. He goes to the
city not because he wants to but be-
cause there is no room for him upon
this farm and it is almost impossible
to get more land-everybody wants to
keep all he has. The older son is to
have the major part of the farm turn
ing over smaller portion to a young
er brother. The mother will. continue
to live on the farm with the older son.
The farm is eighty-eight acres in ex-
tent There are on it six horses, tfir-
ty-hve cows, and sixty pigs, besides
the poultry. The farm with its stock,
buildings, and equipment is worth
about 100000.
Cooperative Bacon Factory.
The farmer is a member OF a CO.
operative bacon factory. In order to
meet the demands of the market.
which has been most carefully studied,
he and the other members find it
necessary to breed a pig of a particu-
lar type, one which will produce good
bacon. All of the members therefore
are raising pig produced by crossing
the English Yorkshire with the native
Danish breed. They have found also
that the best bacon is obtained when
the pigs are brought to market from
twenty-five to twenty-eight weeks old,
weighing beween 100 and 200 pounds.
Careful experimentation has also dem
! onstrated that If the hogs are mar;
keted at this time the most bacon per
food unit fed them is produced. The
pigs life is busy life. They have
only five to seven months to live and
must weigh at the end Of that time
from $50 to 200 pounds. The hogs
are also bred for large filters since
this ia an important consideration
when it becomes necessary to rush
the entire output Of hogs upon the
market at an early age Experts say
that the pig so produced is ideal for
the production Of bacon.
Cooperative Creamery.
This farmer belongs to a co-opera,
tive dairy association which conducts
a creamery some little distance away.
The members are mostly the smaller
farmers. Each leaves his cans of
milk on the road to be gathered up by
a collector hired by the association.
The collector when he returns the
cans brings back the skinned milk.
The milk sent into the creamery is
tested and the price depends altogeth-
or upon the butter fat contained In
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