SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VIII. 899 



^ THE FUTURE. 



I am not much of a profit, neither can I see far into a grindstone, but 

 I can say after the old cow has eaten it "I told you so." 



Xow v.e are going to stop where we are? or, are we going to make 

 improvements we have in the last twenty years? If so, it won't be long 

 until we can buy any of the standard cream separators for $35.00; milk- 

 ing by machinery, separating with a gasoline engine and sending the 

 cream to the creameries in an electric car. But whether we milk by 

 machinery or not I believe a breed of cattle will be developed in the next 

 twenty j'ears that will bring in one half more income than tliey now do. 



It is r.ou' the work cf the farmer to develop this breed, by testing each 

 cows milk and selling all that do not come up to a certain standard. 

 The sooner they commence the sooner we will get the breed. Then the 

 farmer will have done his share. It will then be the inventors work 

 to give us the milking machine. 



By this time I hope the farmers wife will have developed so that she 

 can spend the extra cash without much effort. But I don't think she 

 will have half as much to show the money at the end of the year if she 

 receives pay every time cream is sent to town, because the amount is 

 too small to do any real shopping, and is very liable to go for something 

 that amounts to nothing, where as if she receives her pay every two 

 weeks she will plan to get what she needs and lay by some for a rainy 

 day. 



DAIRYING. 



A. J. BARXHAET, BEFORE BUCHANAN COUNTY FARMERS' INSTITUTE. 



"Mr. Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen: 



"Your president, Mr. Warburton, has asked me to write something of 

 my experience in the dairy business, with the thought that perhaps some 

 points may be brought out that will be helpful to those interested in that 

 line of farm work. 



"Thirty-eight years ago I came to this state and county, .bought a farm 

 and stocked it with twenty cows for the purpose of dairying, cheese mak- 

 ing for the summer product, and butter for spring, fall and winter. 



"The cows were that is now termed 'general purpose' cow, that is a cow 

 with a large fraras capable of putting on flesh so that she will sell for 

 enough money to purchase another one in her place when she has be- 

 come unless as a milker. 



"This was the kind of cow I bought. We aimed to have her freshen 

 in the spring on grass. We then knew nothing of a balanced ration, 

 grass being the best known. Having that for about seven months, dur- 

 ing the other five we fed hay and gave them the run of a stock field and 

 a few nubbins of corn to keep up flesh. With this cow and feed eight 

 months was about the limit of the milk product — the next four being dry. 



"After an experience of four years I sold out and came to town — to 

 buy butter instead of make it. 



