Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-05-02
fHIsE MAKING LOOMS UP
IS A VIRGINIA INDUSTRY
Where Factories Have Been Estab-
s,lished Farmers Have Done We'll.
Interest in Better Cattle.

{lcafifs AhtCEtSt HI DtltcF SHttiS.
A coming great industry in Virginia
Will be- cheese making. In some sec
sitionssT the mountainous section. it is
getting a start and It is being found
that ~. can he made n most profitable
!. neutrality-suspicious. TO the farmer
<yhg has much grass and the cows 10
lpon 4.
Is giving special attention to the GOOD
work OF Introducing the cheese fac
tory In this State. and Professor II. :.
Il Merry, the specialist In this line o:
the extension division. is leaving no
stone unturned to get the farmers OF
the state, especially of tho mountain
Gus section. interested In the enter
prise.
pr asSsordnE to in'sres;ns resorts
established so far have hroueh, good
money TO the farmers In the sections
where they are located and have
saved much food that would otherwise
have gone 10 waste.
Pays Better to Make Cheese.
Even II butter had been made it
would have brought a small price and
1hstim trade at the country store.
and the farmer has money TO pay
i for new dress for his wife or dauEn-
7 ter or suit OF clothes Tor himself,
SSsu he does not prefer TO wear over
go There as sections in the mountains
ssef,-SirGinia where people have made
their money on the timber that was
on the place; and now ,ha; this has
ciearsn up and has to he TUNED To
someGltng else for cash crop and a
living; Gnder these circumstances
COW as the way TO build up their
country. and To make money. This
is one of the best things that they
! grows, II given the least chance, and
G1ns milk can be produced rather
cheap and turned into cash through
the COW. market made for this
to be successful.
just by Why of Illustration.
. A'few facts are cited:
3 One farmer has received $40 per
month per COW for nine months; for
the milk delivered at a nearby
cheese factory. and received the whey
back as feed for pigs. Add TO this
sls per COW 'ns value Q; the whey
De seen that the COW was mighty
4 prontapIe. OF course this man *
backing this factory for all he is
worth. He made this statement: Il
can make more money milking my
cows the hour or two it takes nights
and mornings than j can during the
said. ''lt The creese factory did no;
run ! would s;arv,, as | am on and
cannot do r:u Ii work on the farm.
but can milk cows and for a l:ttlc
work can Ec; * OF money"
Another good thing that is being
pointed oui by Professor Merry Is
that the. establishment OF cheese
-.fectQry In neiEhhorhood awakcus
''s new and abiding interest in better
COWS: ]; does not take the farmer
long 10 iind out that the first GLASS
animal pays best.
Good Things BrinE Learned.
One farmer living near a cheese
factory that was established through
the good efforts q. the rolytcchnic
Institute had three grade beef cows
this last season and a Hoistein grade
COW was bought and her milk KEEP; I
separate and sent TO the factory
The one grade lio!stein gave nearly f.
grade beef cows. and wis good eN.
ample III that section. This will i
show the farmer that nc needs more
COWS and better COWS and must plan
that the COW can change plant
growth INTO cash through hcr milk.
= When this factory FIRST started up.
so the story goes. some Of the farm
ers in the neighborhood decided that
they would Keep the dull-purpose
COW and they bought milking short
eheekE for a while they charged
their minds and bought. some Of
them Hoisteias and some other ars;-
class dairy COWS There are now in
herds that are either all Holste!ns
or grade Jersey cows and the
whole neighhorhood has learned that
che one-purpose COW is the best and
that II pays 20 raise either for beef
or FOR milk and cheese
Pure bred Cattle the Word.
In In lhis connection IN" following
also OF the Extension Division ~
BiAcksburg, j. very interesting:
Reports recently received from The
United States Department OF Agri-
culture show tina; Virginia is still
: leading all tho rest OF the states in
the Union IN the enrolment. of farm
Up to the present time the county
nearly 500 farmers Mo have: agrced
TO use nothing but bura-bicd sircs on
old showing when i; is realized that
there are number of counties in the
State which. At the present time. do
not have Il single pure bred registered
stallion.
AT recent meeting Of fifteen coun.
~ agents n the territory surround
ing Lynchburg "a rough census WAS
taken Of the number Of pure bred
!. StreS in the counties represented II
was found that II all The pure bred
sires in the fifteen counties rcprc.
scented were placed in one county
there would not be enough pure bred
+
conditions prevail III many other sec
ttons. This shows the great inlpor-
tance of the pure bred sire carnpaicD
Pulaski il In the Lend.
Pulaski County still leads all the
other counties in the State in the en-
rollment In the bread Sire cam
paisn. The county agent has en-
rolled go farmers. who have agreed
TO use nothing hat pure bred sircs.
Mecklenburg County comes second,
with an cnroIlmcrt Of forty-fivc,
brunswick third. with an enrolment
of thirty-seycn. and Smyth .TIrtn.
with an enrolment OF twenty. five.
Pulaski County continues to lead all
the counties in the United States in
tie enrollment campaign. hu, the
showing in MeckIcnburg and Bruins
wick Counties Is almost as good
when IL is remembered that these
counties are not in the so-called live
stock section Of the State
There tx room in Virginia for sew
eral hundred more cheese factories
and they Will come IL III. milk can
he had 10 SUPPLY them. !; vii! pay
Z the farmer, be he one Oh the small
order. or one OF the big plantation
Kind. 10 keep tho pure bred cows
10 furnish milk for cheese factories