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November 7, 1896
The Diamond Drill
Crystal Falls, Iron County, Michigan
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Editorial from Ohio Farmer criticizes farmers for selling skim milk cheaply at Illinois creameries, estimating its value at 12-20 cents per gallon for livestock feed plus fertilizer, urging retention for pork and poultry production to avoid waste.
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INEXCUSABLE WASTE
Why Farmers Should Not Let Their Stock Go Without Skim Milk.
I was in a creamery in the southern part of Illinois, where the sweet separated milk was sold at one cent per gallon. A stream of wagons was arriving up one side of the factory, the milk was poured into the tank that fed the separator, while a stream of young women were carrying off the skimmilk in pails. The people of the village evidently realized that they had a good thing in the very cheap, sweet skimmed milk.
The price paid for milk was about 12 cents per hundred weight. Now if the factory sold the milk in gallon lots at that price it naturally follows that the farmers that sold the whole milk could have bought back the skimmed milk at even less. The value of that milk if fed to hogs was from 12 to 20 cents. If fed with corn and counting the fertilizer in the undigested portions. Recent figures from our experiment stations show that in 100 pounds of such milk there is enough nitrogen, phosphorus and potash to bring the manurial value up to ten or twelve cents. As only 23 per cent. of this is digested, it would leave the manurial value of the milk at from seven to ten cents. Add this to the value of the other digested portion for the making of pork and we have a value of nearly 20 cents.
Why should farmers allow this value to slip away from them? Of course if they want to sell skim-milk to the townspeople at half price, or as an act of philanthropy, no one will find fault, but from a business standpoint it is an unwise thing to do. Any enterprising farmer located near such a liberal-minded creamery should improve the opportunity to secure as much as possible of the milk and turn it into pork, poultry and eggs. But it is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when farmers will know too much to let so valuable a product go except for full value.—Ohio Farmer.
Why Farmers Should Not Let Their Stock Go Without Skim Milk.
I was in a creamery in the southern part of Illinois, where the sweet separated milk was sold at one cent per gallon. A stream of wagons was arriving up one side of the factory, the milk was poured into the tank that fed the separator, while a stream of young women were carrying off the skimmilk in pails. The people of the village evidently realized that they had a good thing in the very cheap, sweet skimmed milk.
The price paid for milk was about 12 cents per hundred weight. Now if the factory sold the milk in gallon lots at that price it naturally follows that the farmers that sold the whole milk could have bought back the skimmed milk at even less. The value of that milk if fed to hogs was from 12 to 20 cents. If fed with corn and counting the fertilizer in the undigested portions. Recent figures from our experiment stations show that in 100 pounds of such milk there is enough nitrogen, phosphorus and potash to bring the manurial value up to ten or twelve cents. As only 23 per cent. of this is digested, it would leave the manurial value of the milk at from seven to ten cents. Add this to the value of the other digested portion for the making of pork and we have a value of nearly 20 cents.
Why should farmers allow this value to slip away from them? Of course if they want to sell skim-milk to the townspeople at half price, or as an act of philanthropy, no one will find fault, but from a business standpoint it is an unwise thing to do. Any enterprising farmer located near such a liberal-minded creamery should improve the opportunity to secure as much as possible of the milk and turn it into pork, poultry and eggs. But it is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when farmers will know too much to let so valuable a product go except for full value.—Ohio Farmer.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agricultural Advice
Editorial
What keywords are associated?
Skim Milk
Farmers
Creamery
Hog Feeding
Manurial Value
Where did it happen?
Southern Part Of Illinois
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Southern Part Of Illinois
Story Details
Article argues that farmers waste value by selling sweet skim milk cheaply at creameries, as in an Illinois example where it sold for one cent per gallon despite higher worth for feeding hogs (12-20 cents) plus manure value; urges using it for pork, poultry, eggs instead.