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THE K URAL NEW-YORKER 
February 18, 
MILK SELLING AND LOSS OF FERTILITY 
A corporation of large capital, engaged in 
condensing milk for the Oriental trade, pro¬ 
poses to establish a large milk condensing 
plant. Approximately $125,000 is to be 
invested and tlie farmers of the surround¬ 
ing country are to be asked to contract 
milk for one year at current Elgin price for 
butter fat, with a flat bonus, as we under¬ 
stand, of 25 cents per hundred pounds over 
and above this basic price. The entire 
county is now engaged in the cheese mak¬ 
ing industry with two creameries iu the 
city handling principally separator cream 
that is gathered in the usual manner from 
tlve farms within a radius of 20 miles of 
the city. Aside from our personal antag¬ 
onism to the establishment of this plant 
on the ground that it would injure our 
business, we have taken the ground that 
the sale of whole milk from the farms will 
eventually, in almost every case, result in 
impoverishment of the soil and lead to a 
bad condition of affairs as to the possibility 
of growing remunerative crops in tin 1 years 
to come. We take this ground knowing 
that the average farmer gives but little 
thought to soil conservation aside from the 
hackneyed methods of the little* informed 
person. We know that the cheese industry 
is open to the same indictment iu a general 
way, but at that considerable use of the 
whey is made and hog raising is very gen¬ 
erally practiced. . a. c. x>. 
Wisconsin. 
The fertility of the soil is a matter of 
so much importance that one is at once 
interested when the question of effect of 
selling milk as compared with the sale 
!of butter..or cheese is considered. There 
is no dodging the fact that those of us 
who are producing milk for the city re¬ 
tail trade, or selling to a condensery, 
are removing from our farms no little 
amount of the elements of fertility which 
the Manufacture of butter saves. Records 
of analyses of milk and whey are easily 
found, but those of butter and cheese 
are not so common, and unfortunately 
do not all agree perfectly. For some 
purpose the following may be taken as 
fair representations: Supposing that we 
consider a ton of material in each in¬ 
stance. 
Pounds iu one ton : 
Phosphoric 
Nitrogen. Acid. Potash. 
Milk . 10.6 6.8 3.6 
Skim-milk . 11.2 4. o.8 
Cheese. 70. 13. 3.9 
Whey . 3. 2.8 d.t> 
Putter . 2. 1. .4 
Now if we suppose that 100 pounds 
«.of milk will make 4)4 pounds of butter, 
or 11 pounds of cheese, and presume 
that we get 95)4 pounds of skim-milk 
in one case, or 89 pounds of whey in 
the other, and supposing further that 
we have a farm keeping 20 cows pro¬ 
ducing an average of 4500 pounds of 
milk, we would sell in milk, cheese or 
butter elements as per the following 
table: 
Production of 20 cows : 
Pounds Phosphoric 
Nitrogen. Acid. Potash. 
Milk . 477 171 162 
Cheese . 850 58 18 
Putter-- -- 4 2 .8 
At is cents for nitrogen and Five cents 
each for phosphoric acid and potash, 
the results stand as follows: 
Production of 20 cows : 
Milk ..$85.86 $8..... $8.10 
Cheese . 63.00 2.90 .90 
Butter.72 .10 .04 
Surely that is quite a difference in the 
value of the nitrogen, phosphoric acid 
and potash sold off a 20-cow dairy farm. 
A man might Well hesitate somewhat 
about selling milk as compared with sell¬ 
ing butter, or even cheese, when there 
is so much difference in the elements of 
fertility that is disposed of in the dif¬ 
ferent products. In none of these cases, 
however, is the quantity of the elements 
of fertility excessively large for a farm 
of the size required for keeping 20 cows. 
Any of the elements may readily be re¬ 
placed for the money named. In the case 
of feeding skint-milk, and to some ex¬ 
tent in feeding whey, there is a value, 
not readily reduced to figures, as for. in¬ 
stance in the humus that may go into 
the soil, and any profit that may come 
front the young animals that are fed. 
Feeding young animals, however, will 
remove some of the mineral elements if 
they are finally sold. On the other 
hand there is a labor account that must 
always be reckoned with, and upon this 
must depend much of the decision as to 
the manner of disposing of the product. 
From a practical standpoint the first 
question that occurs to ns is, What is 
found to he the effect of selling milk 
from our dairy farms? It must he ad¬ 
mitted that the answer is not uniform. 
It does not seem to be any more neces¬ 
sary that a farm must grow poorer be¬ 
cause milk is sold, than it does that the 
soil must improve because a farmer 
buys a lot of grain feeds for his stock. 
It is by no means uncommon to find 
farms or even whole neighborhoods 
where large amounts of feeds are pur¬ 
chased and yet the land is growing 
poorer every year. Likewise we find 
other localities where milk has been sold 
for a succession of years and still the 
land is in a better state of productive¬ 
ness than formerly. These results are 
not to he taken as necessarily usual, 
but such instances go to show that it is 
the method of handling the soil rather 
than the mere fact that milk is sold, or 
that butter is sold instead, that deter¬ 
mines the productiveness of the soil. 
We find localities, or at least farms, 
where the growing of potatoes is not 
followed by depleted soil, hut by im¬ 
proved production year by year, and this 
without the purchase of extravagant 
amounts of fertilizers. It does not seem 
longer to be absolutely necessary that 
stock shall he kept on farms, or that 
fertilizers shall he largely purchased in 
order to keep them productive. It does 
make a lot of difference how the land is 
handled. I do not wish to be misunder¬ 
stood in this matter. 1 approve most 
heartily of the dairy business, and 1 ap¬ 
prove of the idea of keeping the skim- 
milk at home and feeding it to calves 
and hogs, or even to some extent to 
dairy cows. But if market conditions 
are strongly against such a course, or if 
the labor problem becomes too acute, 
as it sometimes seems to he, or if in¬ 
spection becomes too unreasonable, as 
seems now to he the tendency, one may 
patronize a cheese factory, sell milk or 
go out of the dairy business altogether 
without the impoverishment of his soil, 
provided he is fully informed as to the 
best methods of handling it. On our 
own farm we have sold milk for nearly 
20 years, and for several years back 
have returned no skim-milk to the farm, 
yet the production of crops never he- j 
fore equaled those of the past year. 
There has been good money in cheese 
during the warmer months for several 
years, and for two years Summer milk 
has paid much better in butter than 
when sold to the milk shippers and con¬ 
densers. This condition may or may 
not continue, hut if it should there are 
many cases where cooperative concerns 
can best handle the product, and further 
where it may he best even to utilize the 
skim-milk or the whey in some of the 
manufacturing processes rather than re¬ 
turn it over rough roads to the farm, j 
Where convenient, I would use on the 
farm and would prefer to do so without 
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