The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-08-11
DAIRY CAMPAIGN
BEARING FRUIT
SEVENTY FARMERS NOW SHIP
PING CREAM WEEKLY

SEVENTY FARMERS NOW SHIP
PING CREAM WEEKLY
Many Farmers Now Engaged in
Dairying Express Themselves As
Highly Pleased With Results-One
Brighton Enthusiast Realizing AL
most $50 Monthly-Agent HoI-
lingsworth and Assistants Have
Done Splendid Work.
That the campaign conducted in
the county in the interest Of dairy
ing IN Upton county is bearing fruit
is proven BY the fact that since the
campaign 20 farmers are shipping
cream. This number, added to the
ones who were already shipping
cream every week will bring the
number who are Shipping cream lip
to 20. There are many more who
are interested, and it is believed that
there will be at least $50 shippers
by January 1. Many who are inter-
ested are waiting until they can ret
pastures arranged, purchase equip
ment and find good grade milk cows.
That those who are already ship
pIug are satisfied with the results
thus far IS evidenced BY the fact that
thew are all boosters Of the business.
Mar Marion Roane. of the NIT.
Carmel community, Oh being asked
what he thinks Of the business,
says:
A am milking six cows. 1t will
take two Of these cows to supply nv
table, with nine using milk and but
ter MY cream checks are around
$40 per month. / am buying some
mixed dairy feed and used Sl2 worth
last month. AS soon as nv corn is
/ will crush this and add
some cottonseed meal. have eight /
hogs that are getting eight gallons
ri skim milk a day. / believe that
Y is going to pay better little
ater and ! am very much pleased
With the business
Another farmer, who is Shipping
'ream from four cows, is realizing
about the same amount and states
nat he expects to increase his herd
This is what Mr.. E. e. Ralph, one
nile west Of Covington, has to say:
+ have made five shipments Of
ream; am milking four COWS. We
Use butter for home use and / ship
. flve-gallon can every five days.
fhen | started, cream was 28 cents,
nd my cans have brought from
$50 to $3.50. Checks are running
round $35 per month. am feed
ag little cotton seed, with the
oWs on pasture, and am going to
et more cows"
There are 15 men shipping from
'flgl1tons with more to begin within
he next few weeks. Mr.. w. B.
one Of the Brighton
hippers, who formerly sold butter
} the retail trade in Covington, on
eng asked how he was getting
long. said:
~ am getting On fine; am milk
II six cows, two shippers. I am
tipping two cans week. Nv
hecks are around $48 tos50 a month.
am not feeding anything, with
lWs running on pasture, and it's
! clear money with me. | wish had ;
x or eight more cows; am going !
ges some more. There is more
oney IN it than anything d man !
N get inn I
The campaign was conducted I'M
r the direction Of County Agent :
olllngsWorth, with the assistance 6
experts from the Division Of Ex- 2
nsion at Knoxville and from the
avelopment Bureau Of the Illinois '
sntral railroad I
Mr. H0llingsWorth' states that the ?
rmers in every community in the I
unity are interested in the dairy +
siness, and that he IS devoting P
actically all Of his time III assist
9 them to get started. The cows
ught are being tested for butter
BY Prof. Sandlin, of Byars- Hall !.
gh School. and are showing M Z
II. 1t would seem from the tests {. {
At it will be possible to secure !.
VS. in our own county that are 8 8
Cd producers. g :,
Mr.. H. ]. Schwietert, general de- I I
lopment agent Of the Illinois Cen II
Il railroad. whose men assisted in +,
recent campaign, states in :.
ter to a Covington banker that he
$ always felt that the territory
IN Memphis to Fulton, KY, should +,
one that was so highly developed ),
'ng the lines Of dairying as to be p
most prosperous in the state. He
ties that we have the soil, the CHI !,
tie and all Of the natural re- j. u
lrces to make this county an ideal 3
inty for dairy farming.