Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-03-27

In this country systematic and eX.
tensive dairying is only carried ON in
portions of the country that have been |
settled for some time. The pioneers in
any section do not engage in CONNER
cial dairying. They raise grain and
stock, and by the sale of them obtain
the means to improve their farms and
erect new buildings. They raise ami
mails that they can obtain cheaply and
can keep with little protection. Their |
cows, of course, give some milk, which
is used in bringing up calves and max
ing butter and cheese for home con-
sumption. Some butter, generally of
very poor quality, is disposed of in the
nearest towns. Little of it finds its way
to large cities, for it is not suited to the
demands of the market. In most parts
of the country theylare specially adapt
ed to commercial dairying the manu-
facture of butter and cheese on an eX-
tensive scale does not commence till
the Weld of corn and small grain de-
clines. Sometimes they fail to be pay
ing crops on account of the exhaustion
of the fertility of the soil before the
owners of the land consider the pro-
priety of substituting dairy farming for
the production of grain. In fact,
dairying is resorted to as matter of
necessity in order to render the land
remunerative, or to restore in part it's
former fertility.
There are other reasons why the
business of dairying is put off by the
first settlers of any section of the
country. 1t requires considerable cap
ital to put up, furnish, and operate
butter and cheese factories, to erect
barns suitable for sheltering dairy
stock. and to purchase the COWS suit
able for dairy purposes. This capital
the first settlers do not possess, or at
least they dO not have it when they
commence to improve their places
They must accumulate capital in grain
farming or in stock-raising before they
can commence the business of COM
mercial dairying. Good road sand
bridges and supply of excellent alter
are so essential to the success of COM
mercial dairying, and all of these are
,, not generally found in n section OF
country that has been occupied but a
short time. Again, it is necessary for
most of the farmers in q neighborhOod
to unite in the enterprise before n man
ufactory of butter and cheese can bo
started and operated with success. In
section of country recently opened
{ to settlement there will be considerable
: unoccupied land and many farmer:
who will not engage in dairying
Hence it will be difficult to obtain ;
supply of milk suited to the wants o
a factory within easy reach of it, anC
5 trouble will be experienced in procur
. ing persons to milk large number o.
II COWS.
f Still new section of country offer
many advantages for successful dairy
inc that older sections do not possess
Land is cheaper, and but little capita
l. is required to purchase enough to keeI
II n large herd of dairy COWS. The fer
O tilty of the soil is not exhausted b
n taking off several successive crops @
V grain. These crops take from the so
D much Of the lime and phosphorus
J. once contained and leave it in poo
v condition to produce large crops {
is grass. 1t was formerly thought tha
D. the wild grasses of the prairies were {
,e little value for producing milk, bu
al their worth is now appreciated in IN
re dairy regions where they have bee
IS DESTROYED. 1t was also thought tbs
re the cultivated grasses could only /
re successfully introduced on land tn;
h. had been devoted to hoed crops fc
ID several years. 1t is not known thi
IN bluegrass, red top, and other exec
er lent pasture grasses, as well as whit
w clover, can be introduced on prair
ne soil that has never been touched b
IL the plow. Indeed, at every convel
k ton of western dairymen the stat
I'd ment is made that the best pasture