Year: 1869

e.


Now in order to make proper comparison of
| Vermont and Kansas in this matter, the cost
of the cows of their keeping, and of the labor
of making their products into the above men
toned sums of money, ought to be taken into
account. But first let me say, butter making
is in its infancy here. Only few pay any at
| tentiOn to it, though the number is increasing.
Nobody makes it regular business it is an
incidental item altogether. The most Of our
cattle men allow their calves to run with
their cows all summer, not taking the trouble
to save any of the milk, regarding the in
crease of the stock as a sufficient profit.


This man had managed from a small start
to get twenty COWS, which last fall would
not have sold for more than S25 per head.
tie lives in small log house, containing but
a single room, the miIk-room, buttery, cellar,
kitchen and chamber, being all in one, while
the floor was of mother earth He had no
pasture for his cows but the common prairie,
no barn for his calves but a rail pen. He
saw the calves did not need all the milk the
cows gave, and being Of an economical turn
of mind, he thought he could convert the
surplus into money, and be mar, Il to make
butter enough, and that which was good
enough, to be equal in value to thrce-fifths of
his COWS. His plan is to keep his calves in
the pen during the day, while the cows run
on the prairie, while at night the cows take
the pen, and the calves run on the prairie.
As the calves are allowed to suck, neither
the cows nor calves are inclined to stray far
from the pen. The real credit, however, be-
longs to the wife, as the work was done prin-
cipally by her The work of carrying on
the farm was scarcely hindered at all. The
item of pork | do not mention, although it
was considerable.


Now here is an investment that paws a
hundred per cent, with very little trouble,
and which might with proper attention be
made to pay great deal more, and this |
consider doing very well, although it is no
doubt true that there are great many young
genuses in Vermont, who can do much bet
ter.


If Mr. Seayer will send that young man
out here who did so we'll on a high, rocky
farm in Vermont, or some other young man
with the same talent for success in the dairy
business, and let him put forth the same cf-
fort here that is needed there for success. L
will venture that in short time | will be
able to tell him story about butter-making
that he wOn't laugh at me about


In the line of stock raising think could
mention instances Of profit and success that
ire not often beat. y Mr.. Harlow Isbell /
purchased a cow in 1859, for $40. Since I,
then from the increase of her stock alone he /.
has sold $500 worth, and he has twenty .
head left. How much the benefit has been .
in milk and butter during the ten years, do 4
not know, but it has been considerable, and .
he has the old cow left yet. A Mr.. Rambo .
Of Hartford, Lyon County, has a cow four /
7ears old, that has had seven calves, and all .
1ut one are alive and doing we'll. She had
hree at one birth. Can you beat this,
irecn Mountain Boys?


Railroads are pushing their way into South
,rn Kansas as fast as possible. Emigration
litherward increases rather than diminishes
The railroad through the Neutral Lands has
net with decided opposition on the part of
he settlers, and more is threatened. These
settlers took up the land here with the ex-
that when the government treated
or it they could have it as homesteads, or
'y preempting it, but they find some rail
-oad speculator, as they regard it, has grabbed
the whole, and they must 90 and buy their
title of him. They say they wo mt stand it.
Hence the disturbance. They have had a
railroad war in New York, and it may lie
We will have one here.


My letter was nearly finished three weeks
lgo, but in the hurry of haying it was laid
IN the shelf and neglected altogether. If
you find, Mr.. Editor, the intervening hot
weather has eyapOrated its freshness, you
may throw it into your waste basket, and
the next time have anything to say I will /,
be more prompt in seading it along.


WILBUR.