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THE RURAE NEW-YORKER 
Live Stock and Dairy * 
STORY OF A DAIRY BUSINESS. 
Twenty-two years ago a young man 
trained for a machinist, and from a 
family of born mechanics, queerly 
enough determined to be a farmer. His 
worldly endowment was not great. The 
united sum of his capital barely enabled 
him to invest in 40 acres of worn-out 
land, much of its contour bushy with 
sprouts and chiselled with gullies. The 
young bride who left a neighboring (home¬ 
stead to become his partner and help¬ 
mate contributed a dowry of 40 acres 
more, but lying a mile away from the 
first 40. For a number of years the 
career of the new home was uneventful. 
Children came to give it life, but the 
old traditions of land husbandry which 
had long prevailed in this quiet spot, 
quite unstirred by the current of world 
life, were accepted without question. 
Ten years later enough had been saved 
to buy another 40 acres about like the 
first. Five miles to the south lay the 
county seat of 1,000 people and 10 miles 
east of it on the Mississippi River was 
a larger town of 5,000, which I shall 
call Brownsville. A fine ante-bellum 
gravel toll road connected these two. 
Nearly 15 years elapsed before there 
came a ripple in this home life. Then 
four miles to the north of the farm an 
old farmer, unable longer to do hard 
manual work, decided to find a market 
for his butter, almost unsalable at home, 
at Brownsville. The first attempt was 
successful and encouraged him to in¬ 
crease his sales by adding butter from 
certain farmers to his own supply. One 
of these neighbors was McNeely, who 
weekly furnished him with a few 
pounds; 15 cents per pound was the 
price paid. One day McNeely met him 
with an ultimatum; for the future he 
must have 20 cents per pound. His but¬ 
ter was refused and he decided to fol¬ 
low the example of the old farmer and 
seek his customers directly. That was 
the beginning of a trade six years ago 
which has never been interrupted. 
He found no difficulty in engaging 
private customers at Brownsville. The 
town is chronically in arrears of but¬ 
ter. Creamery butter was generally kept 
in stock by the leading grocers but was 
too high-priced for the mass of peo¬ 
ple. They wanted something cheaper, 
about 25 cents, and McNeely was able 
to supply them. He sold to the grocers 
only when he was unable to dispose of 
a surplus. Every Tuesday morning, 
with hardly a break in the six years, 
his wagon has started from home at 
an early hour on its 15-mile drive to 
Brownsville, returning after nightfall. 
The average load is 125 pounds of but¬ 
ter (sometimes 250) to which was added 
a side line of eggs. 
McNeely started with two grade 
Jersey cows, and relied on his neigh¬ 
bors to furnish the rest of his load. 
The butter is all delivered at his door, 
in one case from a distance of seven 
miles. A German friend attempted to 
follow his example. He tried it for 
about three months and then quit dis¬ 
gusted. McNeely was experiencing 
similar trouble. Some of the butter of¬ 
fered him was unsalable, while some 
provoked grumbling, started criticism 
and lost him trade. He found he had 
to discriminate among the farmers who 
supplied him and to employ all his 
diplomacy in so doing. Very little of 
ihe butter was of really high grade, due 
to ignorance of the best methods. The 
fastidious tastes of the townsmen had 
taught him also a vast deal as to quality 
in butter and he had become well aware 
of the general deficiency of his supply. 
All this led to a train of thinking that 
began to arouse latent pride and am¬ 
bition. He now had no competitor. The 
old farmer had become incapacitated, 
while the demand at Brownsville was 
increasing as the town rapidly grew in 
population. His reading was making 
him acquainted with the improved 
methods and mechanical aids that scien¬ 
tific knowledge had discovered and he 
began to covet their possession. The 
first move in this direction was to in¬ 
vest what surplus earnings he could 
spare in more cows. He became on the 
alert for any extra good milker that 
was offered for sale and thus gradually 
increased his herd and furnished a 
greater percentage of his own butter. 
The move that had the most influential 
result, however, was his acquisition of 
a separator. This in many ways proved 
a revelation to him, and unlocked the 
main secret of good butter-making. He 
was impressed with the amount of im¬ 
purities detected and removed by the 
separator, of whose existence he had 
been unaware. The greatest difficulty 
with his butter had been its poor keep¬ 
ing qualities; he found that in this 
respect the separator made a wonderful 
difference, as well as in the general 
quality. He took the agency for a 
certain make and tried to prevail on his 
friends who supplied him butter to use 
them, explaining that their butter would 
be improved and that he could afford 
to give them more for it. He went to 
a farmers’ institute and by a personal 
demonstration, sold six. In all he has 
sold about three dozen in his district 
and thereby greatly stimulated interest 
in better butter by improved methods. 
Many of the farmers had spring houses 
in which to keep their milk and but¬ 
ter, but their supply could not be de¬ 
pended on the year round. They bred 
the cows to drop calves in the Spring, 
and by Winter the cows would be giv¬ 
ing little or no milk, due ii» a measure 
to faulty feeding. This was a further 
inducement to render his supply stable 
by the product of his own herd. He 
had no spring for cooling milk and 
instead hung milk and butter in a cistern. 
He tried buying ice in Brownsville but 
after a trial found the cistern gave bet¬ 
ter results. His next important am¬ 
bition was to modernize his cow stable 
in the interest of cleanliness and labor- 
saving. By this time he had two stal¬ 
wart sons approaching manhood, and 
with their assistance he laid in one con¬ 
tinuous piece of concrete a manure gut¬ 
ter, stall floors and a feed trough. Next 
came steel stanchions and then a ma¬ 
nure carrier suspended to an over-head 
track. When 1 recently paid him a 
visit I found him sweeping off the stall 
floors after sprinkling them with slaked 
lime. This sweeping was done morning 
and night. He had advanced so far 
as to brush the cows regularly prelimi¬ 
nary to milking and bathe their udders 
with warm water and a patent washing 
powder. Soon he began to confide to 
me further great improvements that he 
had afoot, and on which he had planned 
to begin work at once. First the row 
of stalls was to be lengthened for more 
cows. The cold and hard concrete 
floor was to be covered with a lath 
foundation that would hold the bedding 
in place and promote warmth. At the 
end of the stable but distant from it 20 
feet he will build a concrete room, 20 
feet square, for the manure and 
spreader which latter will occupy one 
end. The carrier will run directly into 
this room from the manure gutter. A 
dairy house, 12 by 20 feet to have con¬ 
crete floor and all conveniences, was 
already staked out close to the resi¬ 
dence and will be built before Winter. 
Finally a silo is planned as the leading 
improvement for 1912. The herd now 
consists of 20 head of grade cows and 
heifers, all of Jersey blood. Last 
Spring McNeely went to Kentucky and 
paid $450 for two registered cows, being 
determined to lay the foundation of a 
purebred herd. There are not over 20 
registered Jerseys in his county, and 
prices of that breed have advanced 
rapidly. One of his two cows dropped 
a male calf for which he was offered 
$150, but declined, wanting it for use 
in his own herd. It is needless to say 
that the farm has been keeping step 
with these improvements. Manure has 
been carefully returned to the land and 
a rotation adopted that is steadily in¬ 
creasing the crop yield. Last year a 
22-acre field averaged 80 bushels per 
acre. Corn is followed by cow peas; the 
Spring after the peas are cut, the land 
is well harrowed and clover sown with 
a little grass. This is pastured and the 
next year cut for hay. Then corn again. 
The usual ration for the cows is crushed 
corn, bran and some linseed meal. Cow 
peas, unshelled, furnish both hay and 
grain and are relished better than clover 
or any other hay. Meanwhile the price 
of butter has risen to 35 cents and Mc¬ 
Neely now successfully competes in 
quality with creamery stock. He thinks 
the price will reach 40 cents next 
Winter. l. r. Johnson. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
Lump Jaw. 
My favorite cow has a bunch on face 
between eye and the nostril on left side. 
It came to a point on top, not a round 
bunch ; it was hard like a bone. I thought 
I would wet it in idodine about three weeks 
ago. It seems moveable between the bunch 
and face bone; it is now larger, has two 
openings, which bleed some. The cow does 
well every other way. Is it lump-jaw and 
what is the remedy? What about tbe milk 
for fattening veals or family use? 
w. F. E. 
The tumor no doubt is due to actino¬ 
mycosis (lump jaw) and as it is not fast 
to the bone it should be remediable. Have 
it cut out by a veterinarian and the wound 
well cauterized. The milk is fit for use by 
man or animals. a. s. a. 
July 20, 
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