Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — Some Figure to Think About [ARTICLE]

Some Figure to Think About

Last year the country exported 9,000,000 pounds of butter and we received 17%c per pound for it and then had to pay the freight and all other expenses out of that. Denmark sent 200,000,000 pounds to the same markets and was paid 26%c per pound for It. We used 300,000 pounds of butter for soap greese in this country because it was too poor to be eaten. New York State alone used up 9900,000 worth of hay in feeding cows to warm barnyaras during the daytime. As mnch more good hay was as good as wasted in feeding dry cows that should have been maklug 30c butter. The loss of alternate freezing and thawing, drying and soaking of cows in the winter time to make them hardy and strong connot be ertimated. Now is .it not about time that this foolishness of our grandfathers was stopped and that we accept the new gospel and follow dairying with common sense. The new principles and advanced thoughts in dairying are to be accepted and practiced by all, and that is what they were studied out for. The dairyman must

dairy tt the year round and stop going into winter quarters to oat up what waa made id the summer.—[Col. F. D. Curtis, Before the New York Dairyman’s Association.