Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-02-03
$ -IRONTON. MO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1916 NUMBER

16 pounds butterfat out OF that cream.
I will say that our COWS made 10
pounds of butter per week at 25 cents
per pound, which was equal to $3.50,
and we had either to carry that off or
send it by parcel post, or express,
that would cost more than the 10 gal
Ions of cream at 2S cents. Now the
16 pounds of butterfat at SO cents per
pound is 1928, that we get for the
same cream that created the same
butter that we got $3.50 for, and the
st. Louis Iron Mountain Railway has
tariff in effect that they will carry
gallons of this cream by baggage for
IA cents to ST. Louis, and the express
Company and Railroad Company will
return the cans free of charge.
am just in receipt of letter from
the Fox River Butter Company, of St.
Louis. They will pay from one cent
below the Elgin butter quotations to
one cent above for the butterfat, and
as you know, the Elgin people claim
to make the best butter there is, so in
the summer time when we get an over
production of cream, you see that we
| get reasonably good price anyway,
as they tell me they didn't pay less
than % cents pound any time last
Esummer for butterfat. want to say
further, then, that we are raising two
calves and feed two sows that have Is
pigs, on this skim milk, and by, mix
ing little shorts with it, The sows
are in fine shape and so are the pigs
and calves,
We separate the milk from butter
fat just as soon asst is MIXED and the
labor is less than one third of the old
way of making butter This convinces
me of what / have urged long time,
that our farmers here are not utilizS
ling this county for what it is adapted
to. The Iron Mountain railroad could
lpick up from 10 to so dollars every
day, if the people would turn their at
tention to it, and with large profit to
the farmer. The intention of our
| lGovernment, when they created the
| National Bank System was for the
farmer producer to get cheap money
also Col. F. D. Gardeners Farm Bank
idea was under the same principle. So
you can see from what say, that this
is correct, and il any of your readers
doubt it, will send you the bill of
sale, for you to publish in the paper,
: of what we receive for this cream.
< have figured it out carefully and have
decided, by figures and by practical ex
: perienca, that any man can take $500
Q llease him piece Of land, buy $40t
9 worth of Jersey COWS, and buy his
equipment, such as Cream Separator
and cans, one good gentle SOW with q
, gang of pigs, and 2 to dozen good
hens and he make clear of all expenses
per day, from $1.5O to $500, and
trust that other people along the Iror
Mountain, and backin Reynolds coun
y II ty, to where we are making the gooc
S road from County Seat to County
{ Seat, will see it as do; that this but
terfat can be brought in 10 or II mile
in Missouri as it can in Illinois anC
: other states, and it would look nice tt
g me, and think it would to you, Mr.
d Editor, to see an autotruek pull out o
g Centerville, and gather up on thil
road from Centerville, to Glover, witt
every lady or gentleman that wishe
u to go into the dairy business, from
. to 20 gallons of cream from each fam
8 lily, but it would look greater to me
. when | saw their returns and see tina
. every mother or every sister that ha
" to labor in way Of taking care of tn
y farm cows, start little bank accoun
of their own and see our young me
that are hustling to the mines an
cities, be contented at home, readin
their farm papers, and studying tn
n history of their stock and see thei
n bank account grow week by weel
k This would please me, at least, great
o er to see that, than to see him striv
y ing in the mines and cities and read
d ing the great sport news of baseba
1t and all vices of sin that our countr
d boys are more apt to indulge in tina
10 the boys that are raised with it.
Q CIV. SCoGGIN.
y Glover, Mo-, January 25, 1916.
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