New Ulm review., 1922-08-09
BROWN C0UNTY'S
DAIRY INCREASE 5 !
=. II = ~. Y 31,EsE. -
BUTTER PRODUCTION SHOWED
- :. So. PER CENT INCREASE
FOR YEAR 1921 'sss.

BUT FARMERS lash SsAiN
AMOUNTED TO ONLY
2 PER CENT. i. !ss,,: n.
The Rew ~ is in receipt Of 8 CONS
munication from Mr.: Chris. Heen, state
dairy and food Commissioners, showing
the progress made by the dairymen OF
Brown county during the year 1921
in comparison with 1920, particularly
with reference 7 to creamery butter
manufacture. - 80 = ~ ~ ST<:.s z,G b ~,
F ~ -. $3.50 More cows. !.
The number Of creamery patrons !, IN IN.
Brown county. in 1920 was 1,444 Il and y
in 1921 the, number had increased to to
1,71S, an increase Of 274 patrons. The
increase in the number of COWS, rar
from 11,o78 in 1920 to 16,411 ii 1921,
showing the really remarkable increase y
of 5,s33 cows in. this county in the
space Of one single year. This is 9 re-
suit Of the change being quickly made
from the, raising Of wheat to diversified
! farming and more intensive farming tr ~
The increase Of patrons is probably at
least partly due to the cutting up OF
larger farms into smaller farms as the
population increases and as the change
| is made from extensive farming; to in
tensive farming. This change has been
most strenuously boosted for the last
! few years by the county, agents work
| ing under the Farm Bureau Z
Butter Increased 53 Per Cent.
In. 1920, e4,s7s pounds Of milk
were received as compared to 109,29l
pounds in 1921. The, receipts in cream g ll1l
for 1920 were s,es3, ,e62 pounds which Y Il l
increased tremendously and t1, reached he'd!
the figure Of 6,o97 ,658 pounds i IN 1921,
an increase Of more than two, mill million z
pounds, showing that: the farmers OF
Brown County must have, e,cha had TO 70 ce. do
a great deal more work in1 mi milking i 9
COWS in 1921 than in. 192Os TO say
nothing of the extra work N; in feeding q
and raising the feeds and all +. the le other
work connected with, daiTgyingi II Ris, The stle
number of pounds Of butterfat i in; i; 1920
totalled II, 164,040 as compared res ,i TO
1,766,969 pounds in 1921. and s. Ire from n
this there was made into butter IN
1920 a, total of 1,425, 1888 and in 1921 81
the total number of pounds Of butter
had reached 2,176,135. This IS an ~ ill
crease of three quarters Of. q 4 nnl nallllon
pounds of butter in Brown county for
a single year. Anyone handy = with u e g
pencil can easily figure out that IN
percentages this means an N increase
of nearly So per cent in the short, space
Of one, year. That shows, plainly pls 1y how fNN
hurriedly the farmers of Brown Coun-
ty are changing over to daairying dali IN
stead of the raising Of grains, 3 change
which is greatly induced, ]by newspaper
propaganda, inspired chiefly through
the Farm Bureau, and most assidu-.
ously pushed at the. present time 10y
the Minneapolis Tribune, ,,..s -s;s 1854
r >2 ,@> :..s, Does II Pay2 S;s., = g.s.
Many Of the more thinking farmers ~, e1
have warned againstz.a too sudden ap Eal
rushing into the dairy business, Some
of them say that thie idea Of grow
ing two blades where one grew before
or: milking two cows for every one
you MIXED before would be- alright 81 it
YOU could get paid for the extra N blade badf
and get a little wages for milking the
extra COW. .13& raT g9it t5+s.
The figures, supplied by the state
dairy. and food Commissioners shows
that the, farmers of Brown County re-
ceived $725,0S3.17 for their dairy
products in >. 1920 and after put
ting in the extra work with 1888 more.
cows, producing three quarters OF a.
million pounds more butter in: l92l,
their receipts then totalled $742 ,391 .39,
/ the very small increase of SIT ,3O8.22
in actual cash for all the. extra work.
How the farmer got the small end OF
the game can probably be better seen
by the use of percentages when IT is
seen that the pay Of the farmer in
creased only a fraction more than 2
per cent for the So per cent increase
in, production. - ''s# d. sss' '',..
Commissioner Adnaits lnequality.
This unfair. condition Of things is
practically, admitted by the state dairy
and food commissioner in his communi-
cation to, the Retie?q as Is he :, says:
while the total arnol,nt paid, lid,,p patrons,
as well as other totals in, the b, cash ac-
count, shows considerable Of change
in 1921 as compared with 1920, which, hlicsh !
change may not appear to be; particus
:larly in favor Of the patrons, we should
bear in mind that the cost Of pract ical-
ly all items that enter into the produc-
tion of cream has been materially re-
duced since 19207that is, the cost Of
care and feed was less during 1921,
than during the period of higher prices,
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