People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — Dairying. [ARTICLE]

Dairying.

To the patrons of the Rensselaer creamery and the members of the milk church, greeting: I have been watching with great care and anxiety, and am glad to know that a good many of them have proven their faith by their works, viz: Theodore Kiper, J. B. Meinbrock, Henry Eiglesbach, John Martindale, Ponsler and Strong. Wm. Lowman, Bruce Porter, Fritz Zard, Edward Parkinson and others, and should your name not be mentioned do not feel slighted. I will say that I think Bruce Porter stands at the head of the class in the perfection of dairying. He has the best lot of twenty cows I have seen anywhere. They are the average in flesh of the cattle killed by our butchers. He is up to snuff and has learned and practices his knowledge, that a cow is a. machine to transform feed into milk. I am glad to state we have the best creamery in the state. Took Ist premium at the World’s Fair, over all exhibits from this state. The patrons have made more money than any other class of farmers. The skim milk and butter milk this season has been worth 44 cents per hundred for pig feed, owing to the high price of swine, and as the creamery company has paid for Sept. $1 per hundred, that would equal §1.49 which is 20 per cent, more than the shippers to Chicago have realized. 1 hope every patron will increase his cows and that the milk church may have a revival, that will astonish the natives. We live in a natural adapted dairying country and milk is worth as much or more than in dairying districts, where land sells for §SO to §75 per acre, and by developing the dairy interest'here will double the selling price of our lands and give every member of the milk church cash every 30 days and make them independent, prosperous, happy people. \*