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four years twenty-two hundred pounds of butter per year from 

 twelve cows. For this butter I realized twenty-one and one- 

 half cents per pound. 



Butter making is profitable at twenty cents per pound in 

 this Western country, where feed is plenty and cheap. 



GRADED cows. 



We keep graded cows, and try to improve the stock by 

 breeding from a thorough-bred bull. In making butter I have 

 an advantage over cheese makers, by having the milk to raise 

 my calves on. 



A CELLAR ESSENTIAL. 



I find the best and cheapest mode of creaming the milk is 

 to have a good cellar in the first place. I use the six quart 

 pressed tin pan, instead of the earthen crock. It is better than 

 the crock, as it affords less depth and more surface, in order to 

 get more cream, or all the butter, out of the milk. 



GRAIN AND STOCK. 



Experience and observation since I have been in Kansas 

 demonstrate to me clearly that the man who comes here with 

 the full determination of making himself a home, one that 

 he can hand down to his children, and brings his mental facul- 

 ties into use as well as his muscle, will succeed best by mixing 

 his grain-raising with hogs, cattle, sheep, and horses. Here 

 lies the profit to a great extent. With corn at twenty cents 

 and hogs at four dollars per hundred pounds, there is certainly 

 money to be made. 



Our land is adapted to the raising of all the staple products. 

 Corn will average sixty bushels per acre, oats fifty bushels, 

 wheat twenty -five bushels, barley and rye the same. Irish and 

 sweet potatoes grow abundantly liere. The surface of the 

 country is a beautiful rolling prairie, with ample natural 

 drainage. 



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