Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-03-31
THE DAIRY BUSINESS.


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Let us see wherein our farmers are
not doing that which they could do.
The dairy business Ia one Of the best
paying Industries In the world, a. you
will see by the following quotation;
"Thc Imopcan dAdiya makes the
dairy Industry an Immense one, and esti-
mates that Two billion dollars are invested
IN Il, and that fifteen million COWS are re-
quirod To supply the people o. tho United
States with milk and It's products, aud
tl.nt Ia feed these COWS sixty million acres
OF land are cultivated. Tho agricultural
and dairy machinery Is valued ~ two
hundred million dollars. whila seven
hundred aud hfty thousand persons aud
one million horses are employed Ia tho
business. The average COW yields four
hundred and ffly SALONS % milk Ia a
year. which gives u total product Of six
billion. seven hundred and atty million
gallons. At twelve cents u gallon witch
lisa fair price the milk II worth eight
hundred and ten million dollars q year"
Just look at these figures, and the
great amount Of money invostcd-morc
than three times ~ much ~ all the
banking business of the United States.
Aud here In Utah q better place for
that product, the people ac eating
eastern butter and cheese.
made Inquiry aud found that. Eve
firms imported two hundred and Ninety
thousand pounds u cheese. One firm
imported ten thousand dollars worth VI
butter n month from the East. Al that
rate you will see that we annually send
out Ovcra million VI dollar Tor the
farmers and dairy men Of the Cnst ~
consume. while the farmers here are,
IN many instances, living on gravy,
aud ifthey want a little cheese they
take sack Of wheat, 20 10 tho village
store and exchange u for the product
Of eastern labor. With one million for
butter AMI cheese eight hundred
thousand for hog, hundreds Of thou.
sands for horses, millions Tor
boots, shoes, brooms, and thou.
sands of other things that
should be produced here, aud which
would give employment tO our Idle
people, IL itany wonder that We have
hani times Mt the d0ors? L. u not
wonder that we have any money NJ
ALE II Il were not for our mines we
would have 10 do without many things
that We now posuvas. The farmers
should start dairy companiCs, take the
shares themselves, get competent PEG.
pie 10 HANDLE Them, put their COWS la
lhclr stables, put hay and grain Into
them, take the milk to tue dairy, get
thuir money aud make the profits
themselves. II they want butter or
cheesc, let them purchase II from thee
Institutions anu have something
Wholesome TO eat. In n few years they
would have something that would Jay
better than niring squashca. When
they get 10 doing this they viii have
money, and also learn what kind Of
cattle they want.
What hre now recognized as dairy
cattle are Holstein, Ayrshire. jersey,
Guernsey, with once In n while Devon
and Shor,horn. The first thlco have
been, for many years, contesting every
Inch VI ground. The last years record
leaves the HOlstein master Of the sltua-
ton, the COW Pauline Paul, In the
State Of New York, having made, In
one year, onr thousand, one hundred
aud iifty.thrce pounds Of butter, maxi
ing ont pound OF hutter out Of sixteen
pounds o. milk. This leads all Others,
two hundred and thirty-thrcc pounds
for the same time. There aru 40 many
reasons for these standing nj the head
that We can only give bat few. The
INST u, Holland, their original home,
II the richest country ON earth Of It's
size. II h 30 mostly nom the lolstoin
COW product. They are now making
great changes In this county. They
cost more In Holland nav than they
did hncon yeas ago, for the reason that
they are being sought AMER by
every country on the globe.
They are larger than any Others, hence
have more capacity. They live longer
When the calf Is horn Il makes morc
veal, or ~ larger steer. Many calves
weigh five hundred pounds nj six
months old. | saw somu steers At
Buffalo, that, nj three years old,
weighed sixteen hundred pounds.
They milk the year round and sell for
more money than any cattle nj ANY
age. Their butter record IL enormous.
Hundreds have made twenty pounds
OF butter In seven days. Great mum.
bers have made thirty pounds Ia seven
days. Lady Baker male thirty.iour
pounds six ounces In seven days. She
only held the metal on. year, when
another COW knocked her out by yield
Ing thirty-six pounds, and still an
other, thiriy-scven. Now comes an
other with thirty-nine pounds In seven
days. We have Lady Baker the third.
She calvci nj two years old and gave
i've md halt gallons OF milk daily.
Many say tney are too big eaters
That may be 10, but II does not hold
good In man. When | was feeding
man ] always noticed that the little
ones could ent faster aud stay longer
Mt the tab. aud cause more to dlsap.
pear than the big fellows.
Let any man choose his own liking
Of cattle; then he win take pride Ia
them and come 10 the front la competi.
ton. lSut let Us weed out the scrubs.
In Illinois those farmers who cannot
afford the full-blOods OF any kind, breed
their common cows 10 the HOlHtein
Hull. The male IL sent 10 the hatcher
or st,ercd aud sold 10 cattle men.
The hafhreed COW win sell there for
from my to zone hundred dollars, many
making great mixers. We saw COW
In the east with Jersey mother and
Holsieiu father, that gave large
quantity Of milk and butter. In color
and share she was Holslein. | would
advise ihose having Jrrseys, or half
breeds, TO cross with the liolstein.
The cross makes a larger animal, 80
when they come male, they will be
worth something for beef.
II. j. FAUST.
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