Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — THE DAIRY. [ARTICLE]

THE DAIRY.

Book Out far a Creamery Fraud. The ligntning rod and Bohemian oat swindle have had their day and now the hedge fence and creamery racket are being worked. A creamery supply house is sending out agents to small towns and villages to convince them that a creamery is essential to their future success. These agents have all the facts and figures and give talk and plans free. While a first-class equipped creamery can be put up for $2,000 to $4,000, these shrewd fellows get the towns to put in from $6,000 to SIO,OOO. A cold storage may be attached and the concern may take some stock in the creamery to help further the scheme. The company makes two profits; one by the high price of the building and the other by the equipments furnished. They can afford to lose a few hundred dollars in the stock after they have made twice that in the profits. The creameries are generally started in places where there are few dairy cows or the people have not enough dairy education to make them a success. After running a few months they generally close up. The sharpers have been working in Wisconsin for the past few weeks, but they should be looked for everywhere and their schemes thwarted.—Practical Farmer.

A Deal of Nonsense. A great deal of the so-called agricultural pabulum found in weekly newspapers is the veriest nonsense. As an instance of this we read the other day in a weekly paper that milk in Paris was called pure when it contained one pound of butter and four onces of solids, not fat, in a quart. Normal milk contains from three to four pounds of butter and nine to eleven pounds of other solids In each 100 pounds, or fifty quarts. Must Study the ISusiness. One thing should be chalked down and remembered by every farmer who is engaged in dairying or thinks of engaging in it. He will never make a profitable success unless he is a close student of the business. Unless he is willing to read, think, and study, and that, too, right hard, but few dollars will get into his pocket through the cow. Look about in every dairy community and you will see that the most money per cow is made by the men who put the most brains into their dairy work. A man may make some money out of a poor cow, even, by starving his mind and the minds of his family. We suppose rag-pick-ers make some money, but how do they live? The American dairyman ought to live like an American citizen.