American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-11-11

nice big dairy barn, a silo, q creamery, and get
me some real good Jersey cattles-she would have
Jerseys. III see that the milging is done and well
divvy up What do you know about that?"
1t was not difficult to observe a strict neutral
ity when Mrs. Saunders countered: when / found
out that there was more profit and less work in
shipping cream to Ronoake I quit the butter very
quick. When he began to see those monthly cream
checks-well, he just caved in. Why she said de-
risively. II can make more from one COW"
That's not the point" the husband said. turn
ing to me with an injured air. isn't the split of
fifty fifty on the proposition, as stated to you.
sort of putting 1t across on a fellow? Understand,
she to see that the milking is done"
But Mrs. Saunders and the children rose and
went into the house. you just wait until l come
back" she called.
1t was a pity to have this badinage interrupted.
as everybody seemed to be getting a good deal
of fun out of it. Come. along" said the husband
as the last of a bunch of Jerseys disappeared be-
hind the garden. I'VE have just bought a power
separator. but it's not working as smoothly az 1t
might"
His end of the bargain had been made good.
The separator stood In one corner of the concrete
floor of the creamery. Opposite was a two-and-a
half horsepower steam boiler. the room being
fitted up with two hydrants and a hose. Close
by was the dairy barn, with a 140-ton homemade
silo attached. The barn was equipped with con-
crete flooring, feed boxes and forty stalls. Tween
ty-six Of them were occupied; and Mrs. Saunders,
the three Oldest girls, the boy aged eight. and two
hands we're milking.
/ didn't time the operation, but 1t seemed less
than three quarters Of an hour before the cream
was in the cellar Of the house cooling and the
creamery was being flushed out with the hose. The
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later on, but It's a winner as it is. A few sticks
Of wood get up steam quickly; the fire will keep
the room warm enough to work in without discom-
fort during cold weather, and 1t supplies plenty
of boiling water for washing buckets and cans.
This big labor-saving idea is made possible by
the water supply. There is water everywhere-in
the house, stable, b%arnyard, dairy barn and crea-
merry. Even the vegetable garden is watered In
dry times by a hydrant and hose that throws a
stream fifty fet or more.
The town of Bedford gets its water from two
springs in the mountoins over there" said Mr..
Saunders, pointing to the Peaks of otter, ten
miles distant. "When the twelve inch main was
run across the place years ago the owner, in
stead of trying to hold up the townfolks, merely
asked for a perpetual right to tap the main and
use a reasonable amount. You couldn't buy that
water right for a good many thousand dollars.
II uto oul IL Ors part . marrying, Sdlu
Mrs. Saunders as we sat down to supper, par
tlcuiarly when you make butter. All of us have
our particular cows to milk. The boy has one
each afternoon. He doesn't like 1t a bit, but he has
to learn like the rest of them. No matter what
these children do when they grow up, they will
know all about a farm that can be taught them
here. Inside of an hour and a half In the morning
that cream is on the way to the station and the
girls are on their way to high school In town.
What you saw awhile ago is about all there is to
Shipping cream, yet I can make more with one
cow"
The husbands foot touched mine under the Ia
BILE. But how about that proposition of yours"
You wait a minute" Mrs. Saunders insisted.
Il began to ship cream in July, 1911, with ten
Jeseys. l now have thirty-one. The cream Is
shipped four times a week In the summer, three
times a week in the winter. A contract with the
creamery in Roanoke calls for forty cents a pound
for butter fat. That's about a dollar and a quar-
ter for a gallon of cream testing forty per cent,
and last month l shipped fifty-three five gallon
cans.
Last December" she continued %offhand, II
was a fraction more than $500. The number of
cows varies. For instance, last March there
were twenty-five, and the check was $21s; there
were eighteen In April, and the check was $3.50,
In May there were twenty-five and the check was
s193; in June there were twenty-four and the
check was $3.50; last month there were twenty
six, and the check was 1925. That's a gross in
come of about ten dollars a month from each
COW.
II claim that a good one viii bring more from
the cream in twelve months than one Of his beef
steers, while | still have the COW, the calf and the
skim milk. | have fourteen young heifer calves
and / wouldn't take s25 a piece for them. They
and the skim milk for the hogs will just about pay
for the feed. And ! reckon that beats his old beef
steers"
II looked as though half the farm ought soon
10 be clear OF debt.
"0h. that could be paid off right now" said
Mr.. Saunders. but you know the words to that
old song. My Wife Won't Let Me. She's got 81 900
or $1,000 in the new bank here, besides 81 ,000
worth of stock in It. Had TO get myself elected
a director" he chuckled. 80 ! can see what she's