Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02
Our Safest Reliance.

good deal of truth in few words
when it says: eff there is one great
specially of Puget Sound agriculture,
in which Western Washington may
always rank facileprinceps and above
the fear of any damaging competition
elsewhere, it is in the dairy business.
Yet our great need is to get the
business systematized so as to derive
the benefit of cooperative effort and
associated capital. Only thus can
the business rise to the importance
to which it is entitled in this coun-
try" While our numbering resources
are extensive, almost passing COM
prehension, we cannot help looking
to day when our forests will be ex-
hausted of all that is really valuable
for numbering purposes on large
scale. The states of Maine and
Michigan may be pointed out as ex-
amples of which our Territory may
possibly be in the future, SO far as its
lumber supply is concerned. Not SO,
however, with the dairy industries.
Generations arise, grow old and die,
nay, these processes are many times
duplicated while IL young shoot is ma
turing into tree respectable enough
in size to make a saw-log. On the
contrary, as the changing years come
and go, the green carpehng of our
hills and valleys represent only so
many glorious, new creations to min
lister to the wants of the lowing
herds and bleating Aocks. Nor is
there any fear that these supplies SO
vital to man and beast will ever fail
during the present order of sublu-
nary things. That was a notable
promise which God made to Noah
when he and his family came forth
from the ark, once more to subdue
and people the world: "While the
earth remaineth, seed-time and har-
vest, and cold and heat, and Sum-
mer and Winter, and day and night
shall not cease" This il one of
those assurances in Holy Writ of
special significance to the husband
man. Eastern Washington may
boast of its facilities for raising grain
fand bands of fat cattle, but she can
never compete with our dairy and
fruit resources. The Chehalis valley
and several other districts bordering
Pon the Sound have already an en-
viable notoriety for the good quality
of their butter and cheese.
While the same pasture land may
ba equally we'll adapted to the pro.
duction of butter or cheese, we
would advise our agricultural friends
not to attempt to carry on the two
kinds of business at once, or on the
same farm. A butter maker or
cheese maker may achieve renown,
while the same man would utterly
fail were he to unite the two. The
reason of this is made entirely man
fest from the fact that the particu-
lar class of cows whose milk is best
adapted for the manufacture of
cheese are generally poor butter
makers, and the rule might be stated
rice versa with o similar degree of
truthfulness. Of course, there may
be, to certain extent, O show of
economy in supplying farmers
household with butter and cheese
made on the place, but even in a
small way, this is not good rule.
Creameries and cheese factories
might be proftably carried on in
every valley along our Sound. While
the product of the dairy may not be
ranked as refishable commodities,
like green fruit, still there is great
advantage in having q factory situ-
ated near good shipping point, and
by natural right, every farmer To-
Gated near Puget Sound possesses
this advantage. The dairy business
has been an honored calling in all
ages of the world, and furnishes
pastoral poetry with one of its most
attractive and charming features.
Milton goes 80 far as to represent
our good mother Eve making curd
to set before her angel visitors. II
is certain that pastoral pursuits have
largely figured in the world from
time immemorial as emblematic of
pence, plenty and prosperity. Rob-