Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-05-25


from Alfalfa--0ur Compton Cheese Factory
Tho Actualitiss and Possibilities Of this
Industry in Los Angeles cOunty-Downsy
Pigs and Money Circulation.
We take tho following from a
very interesting letter in the Rural
Press, written by General J. H.
shields, of this county:
ALFALFA AND CHEESE.
Sixty days ago Messrs. Bulls &
Walker started the pioneer Coop
erative cheese factory of Los An
geles county, and, for aught know
to the contrary, Of Southern CAL
lfornia. The factory is situated on
the Wilmington railroad, near
Florence. Cheese-making COM
menced about the middle OF Feb
ruary. Success accrued to the in
augural trial. The outcome was
= superior merchantable cheese.
Failure is the rule Of first trials at
untried places, however sufficient
seemingly may have been the ex-
perience and success of the opera
tor elsewhere to warrant the con.
clusion before the fact, that the
coyest secret of success could not
hide away In strange feed and un.
familiar meteorology. A daily
production of about $50 pounds Of
cheese has been going OH now for
about two months. In all that
time and quantity only one batch
Of curd has been spoiled.
An aggressive jet of artesian wa
ter IL deliverable eight feet above
the floor, into every room of the
factory. This artesian fountain
maintains . uniform, perennial
temperature Of 81 deg. Fab. This
guarantees uniform, perennial, sue
cessful cheese-making.
German q Co., OF Los Angeles,
buy the entire cheese product of
the Bulls d Walker factory, at the
San Francisco price Of first-class
California cheese. There is room
for the extension of the manufac-
ture.
Bulls & Walker lay great store
by their facilities to produce new
grass cheese all through the Win
ter. San Francisco always bids
high for such cheese. so does New
York and London. They also lay
great store by their facilities to run
their factory without interruption
through oil such years as 1877. Six
acres of the 400-acre tract upon
which the factory stands, was sown
to alfalfa in 1876. On portions OF
tine six acres the stand was only
partial, and yet the yield was eight
tons per acre for single moving
There is reason to believe that q
perfect stand on the whole six acres
would have given twelve tons pei
acre. This was without irrigation.
And last year was one of the great
est drouth for thirty years. Only one
crop was mown last year, the 9th.
ers being pastured. But this one
crop from the six acres weighed
eight tons dry. If good stand had
been on the three acres
instead of half a stant
the single moving dry would
have weighed in the same proper.
ton, IL tons, or 1903 tons of dry hay
or its equivalent as the amount o
VAAC hAAO ohhuoA CLoPo VI Ola ASAOo
Judge Gray, OH the San Gatrie
river, on about the same number
ofacres, obtained, in 1877, u yielt
about equivalent to the last men
toned sum total.
YIELD OF ALFALFA FIELDS.
Mr.. Caldwell, less than a mil,
from the cheese factory, sowed al
falfa seed in February, 1877, tn,
last year of drOuth, and before De
cember 9Th of the same year ha,
cut five crops, averaging two ton!
per acre per moving. A sixth
crop on the Sth of December wa
two weeks advanced in growth from
the last moving and was now
about three weeks thereafter, yield
ing fully up to the average of tn
five preceding crops. All this Cald
well crop, be it noted, was sOwiA!
in 1877 and moving in 1877, tn
self-same year of almost unprece
dented drGuth.
Near the Caldwell place, OH til
San Gabriel river ranch, 1 weighe,
dry the June, 1877, moving on
quarter of All acre of q fifty-acr
alfalfa field. 1t weighed 100
pounds, or at the rate of two ton
per acre. This was above au aver
age quarter mere. The field wa
mown seven times and yielded tw
crops not mown. The field wa
irrigated one time only in all tn
year 1877, the year of the drouth.
FIGURES ON FIELDS.
The square mile in alfalfa aroun,
the factory of Bulls & Walker, be
fore mentioned, will maintain 81
cows, that will average three gal
Ions of milk per day for eigh
months in the year. Bulls 4
Walker are paying their neighbour
nine cents per gallon for milk, 8,
$40 acres of land, $40 cows, thre
gallons of milk per cow per day
1920 gallons per day at nine cent
per gallon, $l72.S0 income per da,
off one square mile; S., 1874 pc
month; $4l,472 per eight month
per square mile.
80, again, 1920 gallons of mill
per day, eight pounds per gallon
10 pounds of milk making on,
pound of cheese. at 10 cents pc
pound, gives $3.50 per day; Sc, 80
per month; $4,000 per eigh
months for the square mile arsun,
Bulls g. Walkers cheese factory
In this estimate calves are no
counted, hogs fed on the refuse ar
not counted.
These results are different from
those deduced elsewhere, because
thought we'll of using lower aver
ages for the whole alfalfa area, will
which, of course, cannot be a!
familiar as with the square mil
around the factory of Bulls 1
Walker.
CULTIVATION OF ALFALFA.
A perfect stand Of alfalfa may be
obtained on the three acres referred