People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — OUR MILK CHURCH. [ARTICLE]

OUR MILK CHURCH.

Devoted to the Dairy!** later* eata of Jdaper Coaaty.

A Freaeettiew. We have heard a proposition put in this way:. That if it would pay to dairy where land is worth 5100 per acre, it will certainly pay where it is worth from 125 to 150 per acre. Now this may be a true statement, but we are inclined to think that dairying does not follow cheap lands. In fact there is more dairying on high priced land than on low. The time was when dairying could not have been introduced in this county under any circumstances. People could raise large crops of corn, cut wild hay. summer their cattle for 25 cents per month, winter them for 55 per head, making the total cost of keeping a steer 57 or ** for one year. They could be sold at an advance over cost and keeping of 55 to 510, all of which could be done without much care or attention. But now this is all being changed, land all fenced up. pasture high priced, crops poor, necessarily making high prices for feed. Two things will have to be done: Ist, our land will have to be enriched. 2nd, we will have to turn our attention to that kind of fanning that will build up the land. There is nothing that we can do that will be better for this purpose than dairying. Especially when we take into account that the business is in its infancy and, not like other branches of farming already developed, we have before us sometiling to work for. A business that is not likely to be over done soon.

Now, this is the golden opportunity which the enterprising farmer, who takes advantage of these opportunities, should emerge into this ever-growing branch of farming, and when spring opens up he has everything in “apple pie order” to reap a rich harvest from his milk crop. In what other way can a farmer convert his hay and grain into money to a better advantage? Tais is no experiment, but the testimonials of one hundred farmers in this county will verify it. The most prosperous farming communities in any section of the country are those engaged in dairying, in connection with the other lines of farming. Don’t wait then for your neighbor but act.