The record-union., 1892-05-07
TULARE'S PROSPERITY.
The People are Waking Up to Their
Advantages.
A New Creamery and Cheese Factory
Results of Diversified
Farming.
[speeial Correspondence REcoRp.UN1oN.l

IULARE, May 3.-The Tulare City
Board of Trade is very active organiza-
ton and has been stimulated to new en-
terprise by the shock attending the re-
moval of the railroad shops, and the
leading citizens have employed mana
ger who is actively engaged in the en-
couragement Of certain projects that
promise to more than make Tulare's
losses good.
CREAMERY AND CHEESE FACTORY.
In this enterprise Investigations thus
far have shown that 500 to $50 cows could
be depended upon to patronize such an
institution within a radius of three miles
from Tulare, and as many more within
the same distance of a point ten miles to
the southeast One man has already been
interested, who is an experienced butter
maker, and is willing to invest 81 900 of
his own money in the enterprise. In
| case another, who is an expert on cheese,
can be induced to take a similar interest,
1t is proposed to reinforce the capital by
the investment of an additional s., 600 by
parties interested in the prosperity of the
town.
ADVANTAGES OF LOCATION.
The vicinity is one in which alfalfa,
can be produced at minimum cost. 1t is
a very conservative estimate to say that
two COWS can be kept for each acre of
land that is well managed. Again, the
locality has special inducements to offer
IN intensive farming upon rich, sedi-
mentary land, under an irrigation syS-
tenn seldom equaled and climate that
encourages a constant growth Of grass
When Watered. Peach, pear, prune and
ralSln grapes are leading products and
being rapidly planted. Those who settle
on such tracts especially need some in
come while waiting for trees to bear.
| Twenty acres is getting to be the farm
unit. With five of these seeded to alfalfa
and beets or pumpkins raised between a
lew rows in the orchard, the farmer can
safely calculate to keep dozen COWS, as
many brood sOWs and a good band of
chickens. Good dairy COWS well cared
Tor under the creamery system are bring
ing their owners 500 each every year in
other sections. There is no good reason
why they should not be made 10 do as
well here, nor anything to prevent good
management from making pretty nearly
as much more from hogs, chickens, eggs
and calves that can annually be sold
from such place. But the thousand dol
lars or more income that is possible in
this way does not represent the full adj
vantage.
1T BRINGS THE CASH SYSTEM OF TRADE.
Merchants are prepared to secure cash
discounts and are anxious to compete for
cash trade. Farmers are more prudent
when they pay as they go than when
they get charged for everything they
think needed in expectation of big crop
and plenty Of money at harvest. Ex-
perlenced merchants who have long done
business on the credit system in the
country assert that they can do better
when selling for spot cash at 25 per cent,
discount from their old credit prices
Again the dairy business establishes
regular habits. The dairyman must be
at home night and morning to attend to
his milking. While many hesitate to
engage in business so combining almost
every one is the better off and his other
interests are more prosperous, as his reg
ular attention is made compulsory.
OBSTACLES TO BE ENCOUNTERED
Are lack of dairy cows and continued
heat of summer. The first objection is
found almost everywhere when they first
begin dairying. When attention has not
been given to milking qualities Of cattle
and they have not been fed and managed
with view Of gaining most profit from
mix products 1t cannot be expected that
any large share of good dairy cows will
be found. The process of securing such
will be much more rapid than it has been
in other sections where farmers began
ing cows is much better understood than
formerly and poor COWS will be soon
weeded out of the dairies. Again, the law
of heredity and the dairy characteristics
of different breeds and families are be-
coming well established, and through
our agricultural fairs and newspapers is
becoming well known. People are wax
ing up to the importance of industrial
education and the creamery is a natural
center of advanced practice and an effi-
cient means of promoting good COW
sense.
If this education could be carried so far
as to teach the clerk of the weather never
to allow the mercury to go above 90, it
would be good thing for the dairy, but
we could not afford that because it would
destroy our advantages for fruit driving
So we will nave to make the best of it by
using carrying tanks for cream, made
double, with paper between the two
thicknesses of board and another thick
ness inside the tin lining. With such
tanks Iowa creamery-men sometimes
bring cream in good condition after hav-
Ing been two days on the road in their
very hottest weather. Then improved
machinery for making ice makes it
practlca! to turn out butter firm and hard
when the weather is so hot that the
housekeeper with only ordinary facili-
ties would have to stir her butter with.a
spoon and keep it in bottle.
FOR MAKING CHEESE.
The cold air slides down from the
mountains just after sundown every
night on purpose to cool the nights
milk. A good early ride to the cheese
factory next morning when the birds
hrst begin to sing will bring the milk
there IN good condition for cheese, To
be sure the cheesemaker will have some
trouble at first with floating curds if he
has never worked milk produced from
alfalfa, but the farmers will help him to
avoid that difficulty by having some
straw to which the cows have access, and
when the beet sugar factory is nnder
way they will vary the ration with beet
pulp and some of the pumpkins that
grow between the trees. The crearneries
and cheese men of the county will pet
the farmers together in dairy institutions
and soon make name for Iulare County
products.
THE WISDOM OF THIS MOVE
is iar:reaching in its probable results.
and is likely to be supplemented by simi-
lar activity in the swine and poultry in
dustry. Together they will help the
farmers to realize the benefits of mixed
farming, attended by a steady income
and business will be transformed by that
magician's wand-Cash.
INDUCING IMMIGRATION.
The Tulare City Board of Trade has
been trying an experiment that promises
very good results. They wrote to post
masters in Missouri, inclosing postal
cards, and asking name of parties intend-
ing to emigrate. In reply they received
about 200 names. Calling volunteers to
their aid, they addressed a personal letter
to each OF these, requesting further corre-
spondence and more names. They also
sent copy OF the holiday edition of the
Iulare Register. In reply to these they
have already received about a hundred