The Kansas Dairyman from Eureka, Kansas • 1

A 1 EUREKA, GREENWOOD COUNTY, KANSAS, FEBRUARY, 1898. 50 Cents Per Year. VOL. I. NO.

1. MICHIGAN DAIRYMEN. sowed corn of a variety which will make a large yield of feed is perhaps the next choice. Sowed kaffir corn is perhaps THE KANSAS DAIRYMAN. PUBLISHED MONTHLY.

MASON FAUGHT, Prop's. a word of encouragement. 134 Readh New York, February 17, 1898. Messrs. Mason Faught, Eureka, Kas.

Gentlemen Enclosed please find returns for last shipment with check to balance. Replying to your favor of the 9th, will say that we are pleased to learn that the prospects of an increase in your make are bright, for the quality of the goods you are sending makes it easy for us to dispose of them promptly at top prices, and with a larger make the larger profit, as the proportional cost of production will be less, and as you have been so successful, never once turning out an inferior article, we think your patrons should be encouraged to increase their herds, for it is an accepted fact that dairying is one of the most profitable features of the farming business. Our market rules firm at 20c, the supply" and demand being about equal, therefore, we hope you will favor us at every opportunity. Hoping to hear from you soon again, we remain, very truly yours, ZlMMER DCNKAK, Commission Merchants. feeds, though they may be as cheap as all out-doors, causes the buttermaker to gnash his teeth exceedingly and the butter-eater to buy his butter somewhere else.

Sixth Thou shalt not set thy can of night's milk in the cellar with the cover off, in order to use it for a trap to catch rats and mice therein; neither in the wood shed as a temptation to thy neighbor's cat. Seventh Thou shalt not carry away more milk or buttermilk than thy share, lest some shall say concerning thee: "For a wonder one hog carrieth food for another." Eighth Thou shalt not use unclean cans, but shalt cause thy cans to be washed every day and the seams and the crevices thereof, for a filthy can is abomination in the buttermaker's sight, and he will visit wrath upon him who bringeth it. Ninth Thou shalt not trouble the buttermaker, saying: "When shall I receive my pay?" for verily I say unto thee, he knoweth not, neither careth a little bit. Tenth Thou shalt not say unto another: "Lo, behold, have not these milk haulers a soft snap? They receive much pay and work not very hard at all." Verily, this is a whopper. They rise early and toil much, and peradventure the board of directors ref useth to buy another separator they will be obliged to toil Sunday morning, when other people are fanning themselves within the gates of the synagogue.

Annual Convention of Their Association Held at Ypsilanti Last Week. The annual meeting of the Michigan Dairymen's Association, which was held at Ypsilanti last week, was very interesting and well attended. Dairying in Michigan is steadily growing and farmers and creamerymen are eager for knowledge on the important points in this line of work. To this end the association this year engaged some of the best dairy speakers in the country and they did not have to speak to empty seats, as the hall was filled at each session. Prof.

Clinton D. Smith of Lansing, was one of the principal speakers. He lectured on "Balanced Rations in Theorv and Practice." C. P. Goodrich of Ft.

Atkinson, a dairy student and writer of note, read a paper on "Making and Marketing On Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Pingree spoke to the dairymen. The hall was crowded and the governor told how his heart was with the tillers of the soil and the dairy cow. He believes in the nu-tritiousness of the potato, but he thinks milk and good butter necessary for a good balanced ration. He told of what he had done and is doing for Michigan dairymen and expressed his pleasure of meeting so many of them in convention.

The butter exhibit was rather small and not of the fanciest quality. There was fifteen entries in the creamery class. The highest Bcoring tub of these was made by the Ypsilanti Dairy Associa tion: the score being 94U. Ihe Lake Side Elgin Creamery, of Gross Lake, scored 94, and won second prize. Wells, Richardson improved butter color was used in all the butter winning prizes.

We append below names and scores of all those in creamery class that scored over 90: scores. 3 i us Ypsilanti Dairy Ass' 42 28 9 10 94 Lake Side ElRin Cry 43 27 9 9 5 94 Cooperville Cry. Co 41 28 9 10 4 92 New Haven Cry. Co 42 27 10 10 4 93 Cold Springs Cry. Co 42 27 9 10 5 92 Vermontville Cry.

Co 41 27 9 10 5 92 G. H. Williams. Flint 41 28 10 10 4 93 Allen Ypsilanti 42 26 10 10 4 92 NATIONAL CREAMERY BUTTERMAK- ERS' ASSOCIATION. The sixth annual convention of the Creamery Buttermakers's Association will convene in Topeka February 21st.

This is the first time this association has been held in the west, and western creamerymen are striving to make it the most successful ever held. Almost every creamery, commission and machine house in the west will be represented. Managers of experimental herds and dairy schools will be present, together with almost every buttermaker who can be spared from his work-room. Gov. Hoard, who is closely identified with the dairy interests of the state, will lend his valuable assistance and knowledge.

Besides a buttermakers' class and contest, milking and churning will be done, showing most improved methods of work. We trust next issue to be able to give our readers a full account, as well as muchawtw information. Be sure and read it. CREAMERY COMMANDMENTS. Good Advice In Scriptural Form by the Kansas Creamery Association.

The Kansas Creamery Association has adopted the following commandments: First Thou shalt not slumber late in the morning, but shalt arise early and deliver thy milk to the factory, for he that goeth late causeth the buttermaker to use much profane language. Second Thou shalt not cast all the dirt thou canst brush off the cow into the bucket. Third Thou shalt not take any cream for thy tea or coffee, for when thou get-test thy dividends one shall say to another: "Why taketh it more milk here for a pound of butter than at any other creamery?" Then shalt the buttermaker arise and hold thee up to ridicule with the Babcock rotary test. Fourth Thou shalt not mix water with thy milk, thou nor thy man servant, nor hired girl, for so surely as thou doesttbis thing thy name shall be Dennis over the length and breadth of the whole milk route. Fifth Thou shalt not feed thy cows too much potatoes, onions, mustard, horseradish or bad cabbage, for these equally as good as corn, and millet is also a good milk feed.

Corn or kaffir corn sowed thick on good ground will yield from five to seven tons of feed per acre, and either of these crops are as good milk producers as any. The importance of making the cows give as large an amount of milk as possible in the fall, is apparent from the fact that by so doing the cow will give milk all winter, and the winter prices are from 50 to 90 per cent higher than summer prices. A cow that is allowed to subsist on the prairie grass all fall gradually dries up, till by the time she is put on dry feed she is hardly giving a gallon a day and the probability is she is dry by the first of November. Ten to eighteen dollars for the butter fat from a cow treated thus would be a fair estimate. A milch cow fed in the fall as suggested above would do much better and would give almost as much milk in the fall as in the spring, and would yield from $3 to $6 per month dur ing the winter months.

PAID OFF NEARLY $300,000. Dickinson County's Record of Debt Paying In Twelve Months. Dickinson county claims the banner for a record of debt-paying during the past year. A careful summary of the business in this line for the year shows that $139,955 was the amount of real estate mortgages placed on record dur ing the twelve months just enaea. ine mortgages released in the same time this not including the releases by foreclosure, which were $54,998 more.

This makes a net decrease of in debtedness of $290,860, including that made by foreclosure, and of by Davment from the savings of the people. There were in the year ninety-one farms sold in the county for $226,046. The record is the best of any year in the history of the couDty. The debt reduction has been greater than any one thought possible, and it almost all come out of the wheat and cattle profits. Fully $100,009 indebtedness not in the form of mortgages has also been paid in the year.

The above article appeared in the Kansas City Star last month and from the fact that Dickinson county has been the banner creamery county of Kansas for the past few years, the article is a strong testimony to the benefits of creameries. It is a noticeable fact that the amount of the reduction of the mortgage indebtedness of the county for the year was about the same as the amount of money the creameries paid out to their patrons during the year for butter fat. The payment of the mortgages are credited above to the wheat crops and the cattle interest. We have always maintained that patrons of creameries could make their creamery checks pay their expenses and then whenever they had any crops or stock to sell' the money would not have to be spent for living evpenses, but the whole amount would be available to pay debts or go into the bank account for a rainy day. Dickinson county has at least twelve creameries and skim stations, and the farmers there universally patronize them.

It goes without saying that but for the creameries their payment of mortgages the last year would have been a very great deal less. A FEW HINTS. Keep only the best cows. Test them constantly and carefully and weed out the unprofitable ones quickly. Feed them well and economically, according to feed values.

Read the best creamery and dairy journals. Practice absolute cleanliness. Never let up for a moment in the full achievement of your purposes. It is the object of The Dairyman to furnish through its columns information and practical hints on all dairy topics. The readers can materially assist us by asking questions about points they are interested, or by writing on any topics in this broad field, and especially the results of actual experience.

These columns will always be open to such inquiries and contributions. Many creamery patrons in Minnesota follow the practice of feeding their cows the year around on forage crops, and some of them claim to have accomplished the feat of making one acre of ground support a cow one year. A Journal Devoted to the Dairy Interests ol Kansas. Subscription Price, 50 Cents a Year IN ADVANCE. Advertising Rates Made Known on Application.

OCR OBJECT. In bringing into existence another publication in the midst of a world of books and cheap literature, one might almost think an extended apology needful. However, as we have none to offer, our real object may be interesting. In establishing a creamery with its stations among a people largely devoted to stock raising, with comparatively few practical dairymen, the questions as to the care of cows, their feed, care of milk, raising calves by hand, the market, profits, etc. come before us everyday.

Dairying is and has been for years the great industry of the east, and has proven the most profitable in which the people engage. In answer to the demand, large factories have sprung up, and with them journals devoted to the industry. However these do not meet the exegencies of the west. Our soil, climate, prices and conditions are different and being such aa to require different methods. Looking over the vast dairy field we find nothing which meets this demand, nor solves the numberless problems of the practical dairyman.

Eealizing this need, we determined to fill, as pearly as in our weak way we might this growing demand, hence our new enterprise, The Kansas Dairyman. Small though at first it may appear, we trust each month to be able to discuss at lengtj, topics which i I Viiii avA rrixra iVttxm Will lUWJrOBU UUl iwiuwo fc, information touching every phase of the creamery and its adjuncts. We promise our readers to keep abreast of the times in this Une and give them the benefit of our researches. We realize that in helping the cow to pay her way, we aid the creamery to maintain its existence. With this our aim, and an earnest desire to help in the success of the western creameries, we ask the co-operation of all interested in the work.

SUMMER FEEU. To every one who derives an income from dairy cows it is very important that the cows keep up the flow of milk the year round. The conditions here are these: A cow that is fresh the first of April will give a good flow of milk till probably some time in July; later, if the summer rains keep the pasture good. But frequently a shrinkage in the milk is noticed in July. This is due to hot weather, flies, and the fact that the grass is drying up.

With proper food, shade during the hottest part of the day, plenty of good water, and some other food besides the grass, the flow of milk can be kept during the summer and in the fall the cow will go on dry feed giving almost as much milk as she did early in the season. There is no feed that will produce more milk and butter fat when it is at best than our prairie grass. But as a milk producer it begins to fail when the dry weather sets in, be that late or early. Creamery patrons elsewhere have found it profitable to sow some summer crop for green feed close to the milk lot, and cut what the cows will eat during the night, and give it to them. This can be done with little time and expense; you can be sure that for whatever the cows eat they will amply repay by giving more milk than they would.

And also, when cows once decrease in their milk, it is very hard with the best of feed to bring the flow of milk up again. There are various crops that can be used for thia purpose. Those who have it would undoubtedly use alfalfa. Then If not, you would do well to invest in one. Many who have cows and handle them to advantage are getting hand separators.

They soon save enough crear1 over the old. method of letting the milk stand for the cream to rise, to pay for the separator and have the skim milk in an ideal condition besides. If the cream is sent to the factory there is a saving of nearly two cents per pound for the hauling, which in a short time will pay for the machine. The skim milk has double the value than it will have after souring. Many realizing these and other valuable points are desirous of securing these immediately and to meet the demand the Eureka Creamery Company has made arrangements to handle the HMD SEPARATORS at a very low figure and on easy terms.

A sample machine will be on exhibition in their office in a very few days, and the managers will take pleasure in showing the same and giving you terms. If you cannot call conveniently, drop them a card and they will wait upon you. THE EAST VS. THE WEST. Throughout the east dairying has for years been the chief source of sustain-ance of the agricultural communities.

There is no doubt but they have made it pay. Nevertheless, in new distriots where dairying as an industry has never been tried, always will be found individuals who, candidly belieye it not pay. Let us see. Kansas butter has been awarded the prizes in two important contests between the United States and Europe. The reasons for this are not found in the high state of perfection which dairying has reached here, but in the favorable conditions of our soil and climate.

Therefore no doubt can be entertained as to the quality of our product. With these conditions in our favor, and well equipped creameries in our midst, it remains with the people who select the cows, milk and care for them, who raise the feed and patronize the creamery to make Kansas the first dairy state in the union. Compare with New York. There the people feed hay worth $10 per ton, raised on ground worth $100 per acre. Here we feed hay worth from $2.50 to $3.00 per ton, raised on ground valued at about $30.

With the exception of an occasional blizzard we can deliver our milk twelve months in the year, giving us the advantage of two months when the New Yorker is compelled to keep his milk at home because of the extreme cold, at a time when prices are best. Thus we see his product costs him more, yet brings him less than ours. True his cows are the best to be had, but it pays to keep a cow that gives milk, an abundance of it, and that good milk. Then you care for her as you would your wife, and feel like lifting your hat to her when you meet her in the road. She will be not only your solace in times of adversity, but the prime factor in your prosperity.

On the broad prairies of Kansas where a pound of beef and a pound of butter can be produced cheaper than any where else in the world, is rapidly growing up what is destined to become the banner butter and milk producing sections of the west or the world. "Experience is a great teacher." Believing this we are astonished that in the thousands of homes in Kansas where the cow supplies the table, there is not some means of each one transmitting his experience to his neighbor and receiving his advice in return. Such will be the aim of The Dairyman. We solicit the correspondence of all patrons, friends and those interested in this work. Sub scribe for it.

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