Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 245, Hammond, Lake County, 28 March 1913 — Page 5

Friday, March 28, 1913.

THE TIMES. 3

HOW DAIRYING HAS GROWN IN NORTHERN INDIANA. By s B- wd-

Likr County. Ind. RAPID RISE OF MII.K BISI.MKSS I THE HOOSIKK STATE MAKES IT RIVAI. FAMOUS ELGIN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.

ypical Specimens of tke Cyclone s Handiwork in Omaha.

Prairie Farmer's silo contest put Ross township. Lake county, Indiana, on the map as a dairying community, and I am going- to give you a short history of the birth and growth of dairying in this section. Lake county Is the northwest county of the state, bounded on the north by Lake Michigan, and on the west by Illinois, consequently we are close to Chicago. In fact, so close she has now run out over the Illinois line Into Indiana, meeting: the cities of Hammond, East Chicago,' Indiana Harbor, Gary and Gibson. About thirty-two years ago I was married and commenced business on my father's farm, raising corn, oats and hay, and feeding it to hogs, steers, horses and a few milch cows a little of everything and not much of anything. After paying rent, the surplus left was not any great amount. Something had to be done to bring in more mone and I decided that sheep would carry me to prosperity. So I bought 150 head of sheep and some good Cotswold bucks. Before long I found we had taken on a bad lot of foot rot with the sheep and my vision of prosperity was turned into disappointment; but I got the whole lot fat and received a good price for them on the Chicago market. Now the question was. "What can we do to be saved?" We decided the cow was our salvation and Chicago our market for the product. Chicago at that time was getting nil her milk from the Klgin district. I could see BEST $5. HE EVER SPENT Bristol, Fa., Man Says So in This Letter. . ' Months of suffering and anxiety over

his condition caused Mr. A. L. Kennedy of Bristol, ra.. to write this retter. He says: "Grippe and a bad cough caused me much suffering ana a worry for five long months, but that Is all over now for I have taken Vinol and amperfectly well. I took five bottles and it was the best five dollars I ever spent." In health one cannot realize, how depressed a person may become after trying one. remedy after another for such a condition as Mr. Kennedy was In, without benefit, or what a relief it Is to find help and be restored to health and strength. It isthecombined action of the medicinal curative element of cods' livers without the greasy oil, aided by the blood-making and " strength-creating properties of tonic iron, that . makes Vinol so efficient in overcoming chronic coughs, colds and bronchitis at the same time building up the. weakened run-down-system. "VV guarantee Vinol to give? yon f' "7" 5 isf action. Harry's Drug f.,. Citizen "Tat'l. Bank bunding. L. " Ha ry WeTs. I.'S. For rough, scaly skin, try our Saxo Salve. We guarantee it. Adv.

no reason why Chicago people could not use Indiana milk, so I went up to the city and found a man who wouhi, buy my milk shipped over the. Grano Trunk railway. We bought more cows and made two and "three eight-gallon cans dally and shipped on an evening express train. My dealer was a good one and paid me a fair price. Money came in better than in the other lint' of farming, so we felt we were on the riRlit track. But this evening through train business although satisfactory In the winter, would not do in warm weather, so I went to see the officials of the Grand Trunk at Chicago in regard to putting on a regular milk train. They were agreeable, providing I would get the farmers along the line to ship enough milk to pay them to put on the train. So I got busy interesting farmers along the line from Lottavllle to Valparaiso in making and shipping milk to the Chicago market. Any farmer who ever started out to induce his brother farmers to enter' a new line of business will know about what I was up -against. Not one In ten wouid consider it at all; those that would brought up all kinds of objections, such as: "Would not have milk for their pigs"; "have to make butter for our own use, and might as well make it all Into butter." Finally all of sixteen cans were pledged. With fear, and trembling, I went to the Grand Trunk officials with my 16 cans promised and told them that farmers were very slow in taking hold of a new enterprise, and that I was sure if they would put the train on others would soon get the habit and we would soon grow to some importance. As luck would have it the Valparaiso people just at that time were asking the Grand Trunk people to give them an accommodation train, so they agreed to put on our milk and accommodation train. It has never missed a day from that time to this, only when it was stuck in a snowbank for 'several days, and the train crew lived on milk and cream. For a while our milk train was loaded very light, but gradlally increased in business. The Chicago dealers found Indiana milk all right, and when there was a shortage they would rush out here and induce some new man to ship. It finally got to be contagious and now it Is the exception rather than the rule, where a farm along the Grand Trunk near enough to be convenient for hauling, does not furnish milk for the Chicago market. 4 At the early stages of the game, we just had cows and cow stables and feed raised on the farm, and at times bought a little wheat bran. . We were farmers making milk. If we had a cow that would give 35 pounds of milk per day we thought she was a dandy. Some of us were readers and students of the business, and we decided that to t get the most out of the business we should have better cows. The best and cheapest way to get them was to buy good

J I

f

Wrec7ca. ge a and Zincoln Blvd..

bulls and raise the heifer calves from the best cows. For furnishing whole milk to the city, the Holstein cow seemed best to fill our needs. The pioneers along this line were Boyd Brothers, Schilo Brothers, Fred Kneiter, Frank Haffman and myself. It was just wonderful what a little money spent In good bulls did for this youns dairy country, (t was only a few yeai until the beautiful black and white Holstein cow was very much in evidence and the yield of milk per cow was doubled. While we were getting betjter cows we were'at the same time learning how to feed and care for them. Better barns were built, commercial protein feeds were bought. We have tried almost everything, but there is more gulten feed bought in this section than all other feeds put together. We were now getting to be dairymen, which means a higher order of farming, making a study of every detail and doing the work in the best possible manner. , Ninteen years ago I built the first silo in this community. There were two or three more between here and Valparaiso. The next year I built another one, each holding about 100 tons. From that time on silo building has had a slow, steady growth until last year, and I look for more to be built next year than there were last year. This section has furnished two principal agitators in the. organization of the milk shippers for the management of their business. Some 20 or 25 years ago a Mr. Merryfield of Valparaiso came ori the scene and proposed to cure all "the ills that befell the milk shipper.""" He was a good talker, "not practical, very visionary, and his efforts wound up in a dismal failure. The small dealers in Chicago were a bunch of hard business men, mostly

II

- - . iii uJ Sacrzfz d JfeQT2 Convent.

m f iev -V; ft&Hn ,..,,.., - ass

the dealers understand we "had - any . rights that they were bound to respect. Finally H. B. Farmer gt in command, was level headed and a pret-' ty good general, and the old milk shippers' union was the means for a lot of good. But it did not satisfy everybody and the rest is late history. To return to Ross township, a number of us that started grading up our herds by buying good bulls, gradually worked up in the breeding of full bloods to some extent, and I believe there are some as good herds of Holstein cows in Ross township as you will find anywhere, and when the sign comes right, I. am going to send you some photos of them and tell you what we are doing here as individual producers. Lake county, Indiana, ' has gravel roads crossing the north half that car

ry milk to Chicago, Hammond. South Chicago, Indiana Harbor,. East Chicago and Gary. There is a big motor truck that hauls from this vicinl.ty to East Chicago. The Gary & Southern electric railway, from Crown Point to Gary, has just commenced to pick up milk along its route and deliver in Gary, which in a short time is going to do considerable business in milk.' In another short time the towns in northern Lake county are going to use all and more milk than will be produced in, the county.

NO LETUP FOR U. S. STEEL Washington, March ' 26. Confer

ences held "with President Wilson and Attorney General' McReynolds by Jacob M. Dickinson indicate that the hew administration purposes to. -continue the prosecution of the United States Steel corporation. . . ..... , , Mr. Dickinson, who has Just completed the taking of evidence in New j York, went over the results In a general way with the president and attorney-general and is expected to make a more extensive report in a few days. ' Mr. Dickinson is understood to have been congratulated for his work thus far and will continue . to handle the case for the federal government until its conclusion.

foreigners, no knowledge of business principles and not altogether honest Their idea of dealing with the shipper was to give him at the. end of the month about what they thought . he should 'have or what he would -take without too much kicking. The shipper would not know what" he was going to get for his month's milk when he went .to settle with his dealer, who would generally have the money counted up and tied up in a rag ready to' be

delivered over. By treating the shipper to a glass of beer and pretzels, the dealer thought everybody should be happy regardless of what we got for the milk. ' But not so one Simon Hill of Ross township, a new milk shipper, but one of pronounced ideas, rose up and said the shipper should have something to say about the price of milk and should know what It was going to bring before it left the farm. That was about

12 years ago. He had considerable, organizing ability and called a meeting at the Sherman house in Chicago, with a fair representation from all the milk shipping districts about Chicago, and there we organized the old milk shippers union, with S. Hill secretary and general manager. He was uniqne in more ways than one. He could hobnob with the mayor of the city, or bull doze the worst kind of a Polack milk dealer. We had a hard time making

SUBSCRIBE FOR THE TIMES. EZO FOR JHE FEET

No Matter How Sore or Painful Tout

Feet, You Can Dance With Joy. Don't feel, blue; good vigorous feet are easy to get. Ask for a 25-cent jar of EZO, a pleasant, refined ointment, and be happy. . i Rub it on those, sore, tired, tender, burning feet and the misery will disappear like magic, ' Nothing on earth; so good, for corps, buniens, callouses, - rough, chapped o itching -skin, or chilblains.. Secure it at Summers' pharmacy and druggists ev erywhere. ; .'...

" "

m

Us all you Need to start Housekeeping

Any article Advertised during; this big1 Annual Sale will be delivered to your home upon the payment of only One Single Dollar down; that's all you need.

GEXUIXE LEATHER PARLOR SUITE. . 1 down delivers this handsome three-piece Parlor Suite to your home. It is made of the best materials, upholstered in genuine leather, steel , AO qp coil springs: frame is oak or birch-mahogany. Special sale price. .aiv'OD 1.M delivers this to you.

Come in and we'll tell you how we have successfully started hundreds of happy couples on the road to a cheerfully home

MASSIVE ROCKER delivers this Massive Oak Rockg I er, upholstered in the finest grade of Imperial leather and dia

mond tufted. A regular $12.85 Rocker,

special at

$1.00 delivers this to you

SI

8.75

down delivers this handsome massive Buffet, made rr

oak, finished in mission or golden ham

h rench plate mirror. g m m. Priced for this sale at .l.UtO 91.00 deliver thin to yom.

BRASS BED. (S down delivers this beautiful full size Brass Bed, heavy

posts, finished with five coats of the Delmae lacquer. In bright or satin finish. Sale price $1.00 delivers this to you.

-inch

6.85

down delivers beautiful room size dl Brussels Rug, made of selected yarns, in the latest Spring, Oriental -f QC and Medallion patterns XxavVv Sl.OO Delivers any Kwm Size ling.

down delivers guaranteed closely woven Velvet Hug of select worsted

yarn, in rich color effects, -f e gf special. ltftOJf 5TOTE Our line of rugs in the most complete and underpriced in the city. .

SI

(SmWlETTE SETT 211 .BS TABLE AND SIX CHAIRS A i down delivers this complete set of six golden oak leather I seat chairs, including massive table to match, just like illustration, worth $37.50. m f $1.00 delivers this set to you. I WW

Store Open Rlights MONDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY EASY TERMS

CARPET SWEEPER

$1 down delivem this genuine ballbearing Carpet Sweeperrall nickel trimmed, oak

or brich nahoe-

GEMRAI FURMITOM GO,

This pretty, solid golden Oak Rocker high back, has large, roomy saddle shaped seat, worth $3.65 sale price,

1.95

$1 will deliver this to you.

MATTRESS $1 down delivers this heavy Cotton Felt Mattress,

any case, sale made of the best materials. ' fanev ticking, sale $1.00 delivers this to you pnee.