The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1916-03-09
TO HAVE TICK
FREE LIVE STOCK.
FARMERS BEGINNING TO REAL
IzE FULL BENEFITS OF TICK
ERADICATION CAMPAIGN.

ENADACAllON NAnE hAO'
In the ever-growing area from
which the cattle tick has been ellml-
mated demonstration agents are now
showing the people how they can
realize the full benefits of their sue
cess in the campaign or eradication.
Purebred stock is being brought in
to improve the quality of the native
cattle, farmers who have never paid
any attention to live stock are being
instructed in the fundamental prin'
ciples of economical and efficient
feeding, and cream routes and
creameries are being established in
sections where they were unheard of
in the days of the ticks.
An interesting instance of what a
creamery can 10 for community is
afforded by the history of the one
established in cooperation with Glenn
son college in South Carolina. In
September, 1914. the creamery had
five patrons whose 25 cows furnish
ed 508 pounds of butter fat that
month. In October a cream route
was established and the number of
patrons increased to II. More routes
were started from time to time,
each new one bringing in more pa
irons, until in August, 1915, after
a years work. 227 farmers were
seading in the cream from 8S3 cows.
The total amount of butter fat de-
livered to the creamery that month
was l4,8l5 pounds. For it the
farmers received s3.S51.ss, an aver
age of approximately SIT each.
The significant feature of this
creamery's success, however. is not
the amount of money that it brought
in, but the fact that it opened up an
absolutely new source of income to
the community. Before its estab-
hshment dairying was unthought of.
If there was a surplus of milk on a
farm it was usually disposed of as
butter at the nearest store in return
for a little sugar or tea. The ordi-
nary run of farm butter. however.
was so little thought of that even
when taken in trade it brought only
about half of what the creamery
could afford to pay for the butter
fat. In consequence no one regard
ed milk as reliable source of in
come. That it could be actually
made to bring in cash each month
was revelation. So new to the peo-
pie was the idea, indeed, that the
checks from the creamery were fire.
quertly stored away instead of be-
ing cashed, and the managers had
to 60 over the routes and explain
the necessity for turning them in.
When the creamery opened the
proper equipment for dairying was
practically unknown. The people
had to be instructed in the use of
the separator and in practically
every detail connected with the
handling of cream. Furthermore,
the available cows were all native
scrubs which received little atten-
ton and gave in return little milk.
All this has been changed very ma
terially already and is being changed
still more. Of the Al dairy houses
built in South Carolina during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1915, 40
were built by patrons of the cream
cry. On one of the cream routes
the farmers united in the coopera-
tive purchase of good bull and on
FIVE others livestock associations
have been formed for general i'm
provement. The number of cows is
also being increased, one man dis
tributing carload among his neigh
bors. Another farmer is described
in a letter as trading bales of cot
tnn for COWS "