STATE DAIEY ASSOCIATION. 699 



THE DAIRY ON THE FARM. 



MRS. JOHN CARTER, SEYMOUR, IND. 



Oue year ago last April we decided to purchase a hand separator, 

 because we thought it would save some labor in caring for the milk and 

 would also skim closer in warm weather than we could skim by the 

 gravity process. 



Then we decided to purchase a rectangular butter printer and also 

 to wrap our butter in parchment paper. We were milking only 

 four cows at that time and had been retailing our butter the 

 year around at 20 cents, which is the best price at our town for 

 what is known as the best country butter. We built a neat daiiy room 

 between the stable and the house in which we placed our separator, re- 

 frigerator, churn, etc. With this process of extracting butter of course 

 we had more and of better quality. The grocer offered me 20 cents for 

 all I could make, so I raised the price to 25 cents on all my customers 

 and did not lose one. ^ , 



We felt encouraged and decided that we would slowly work into the 

 business until we could keep a herd of 10 co"ws, then, if satisfactory, still 

 further increase our herd, for we think it much better to grow into a 

 business than to jump into it headlong. So we began buying cows, the 

 best we could find 'for sale in the neighborhood round about until at the 

 end of the year we had 10 cows. Before this time we had decided that 

 for our small farm of 60 acres, located, as it is, near a cityof 7,000 

 inhabitants, the butter business was the best thing we could undertake 

 in the live stock line, and would go along very well with the small fruit 

 business which we had entered into to some extent. 



Having decided to make butter, we determined that we would make 

 butter that commanded the highest price on our market, so I attended the 

 10 days' butter school at Purdue one year ago last December. As a result 

 of instructions received from Profs. Van Norman and Slater, I made 

 butter which our grocer readily agreed to take at 22i/^ cents the year 

 around, also the buttermilk at 10 cents a gallon. We find this suits us 

 much better than retailing. It saves time and anyone can deliver to the 

 store. We had a triangular butter-worker made, also a seven-gallon 

 cream can and a butter-carrier. Fi'om that time to this our butter and 

 milk were delivered regularly every Wednesday and Saturday morning. 

 We had the initial C stamped on every half pound and we guarantee 

 every pound of it. and we agreed to take back all butter not perfectly 

 satisfactory. AVe have never heard of a single complaint or objection, 

 and Mr. Mills, who buys our butter, has told me often that he wished 

 I would bring him tyvice as much as I do. 



