The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1916-11-23

thermOre that during tne llTSt leii
months of this year he has sold sew
eral thousand dollars worth of but
ter, milk and cream, and that he is
one of the first farmers of York
county to realize that money can be
made out of cows instead of cotton
right here, where farmers have for
years grown nothing but cotton, and
trusted to luck and a gracious Prov
idence to furnish them with bread
and meat.
BE it understood that Tommy
Jackson has not entirely gotten out
of the habit of growing cotton. but
he is getting out, and his neighbors
and acquaintance are watching his
progress in his new departure and
there is hope that they, too, may
some day get out Of the old ruts.
"A year or more ago Mr. Jackson
began to build his modest dairy and
acquired cow or two merely to sat-
isfy his own desire to know more
about making butter as good as could
be made and to produce milk and
cream equal in excellence to that OF
the finest dairies Of Illinois and Iowa.
He is still a greenhorn' in the bust.
ness, so to speak; but he is learning
something new every day about the
handling of COWS and milk and butter
and his COWS to the point where ne
is producing a maximum of dairy
products at minimum cost. During
the first ten months of the present
year the amateur dairyman sold
nearly 5000 worth of butter, milk
and cream to one customer alone.
Just the ether day The News and
Courier's correspondent was pre-
sented with an opportunity to visit
Mr. Jackson's modest pioneer dairy
and the visit proved an interesting
one, the correspondent being not only
impressed with what this pioneer
dairyman had accomplished, but an
inspection of the plant caused areal-
ization of the fact that if other York
county farmers and those of other
sections of the State would profit
from the example set by MIR Jackson
and devote at least a part of their
attention to cows there would be no
need to worry when the cotton crop
is short.
Mr. Jackson is assisted in the con-
duct of his modest dairy farm by his
good wife and he generally admits
that if it were not for her help and
business acumen, he would be helpless
in it's management. Mrs jackson
presses the butter after it is churn-
ed, packs and wraps it up in such a
manner that its appearance alone
would easily command the price OF
35 to 40 cents for which each pound
sells. She is also the bookkeeper for
her husband. Upon one side of the
ledger is placed every item of ex-
pense connected with the conduct OF
! the dairy-the cost of growing clo-
YER, vetch, oats, peavine hay and corn
with which the cows are fed, the
cost of cleaning the stables, of milk
ing, churning, packing every cost,
even down to the small amount OF
gasoline which is used to run the lit
tie one and three-fourths power en-
engine which turns the 3O-gallon
churn. On the other side of the ledg-
er are entered the prices obtained
for buttermilk, skinned milk. butter
and cream and the value of the ma
nure from the stables, which manure
is spread on the fields which produce
the feed for the cows. So systemat-
ically are these records kept that at
moments inspection the dairyman
can tell just what are his receipts
and expenses from any given COW or
from all.
Mr. Jackson's dairy building is a
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