The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-05-03
THE Farm and DAIRY.
Interesting Compilations Made BY THE
Herald's" Agricultural Editor.
HORTICULTURE and HOP REPORTS.
The Opportunities in Yakima for
wealth From Crea merics - One
Tacoma Firm wants the Entire
output of Our Cream cheese.

The subject Of creameries is being thor
oughly discussed just now, not only by
the Commercial club but by the ranchers
and those who have large fields OF alfalfa.
In Kittitss county there are dozen
creameries scattered throughout the val
lev and all are making money. In fact
about the only prosperous people in Kit
titas. or at least the most prosperous. are
those who are connected with the cream
cries. In the markets OF Tacoma and
Seattle the product Of the Kittitas cream.
cries, under the generic name Of Ellens-
burgh butter, is eagerly sought after and
commands the highest price. A reputa-
ton has been builded for it because il is a
choice article and the demand always ex-
ceeds the supply. Mr.. John Fogarty,
who owns one Of the creameries, and
operstes t.on a scientific basis, is coming
money. An overshot wheel furnishes the
power and the milk of every COW is tested
for butter fat. II the milk does not come
up to the standard the COW is sent to the
shambles and her place filed by one with
the proper qualifications.
Notwithstanding our thousands OF acres
of alfalfa there is only one creamery in
Yakima county and this one cannot get
sufficient milk to keep it running at its
fullest capacity. 1t is a money-making
institution and its principal product, full
cream cheese, is the equal Of any made
throughout the length and breadth Of the
land. Mcmillan & Co., leading Tacoma
house, has offered to take its entire pro-
duction, which now average 275 pounds
per diem, at l21a cents per pound. This
is good price and fully the equal OF 80
cents per pound for butter which the
Ellensburgh creameries average the year
-ound.
The trouble in Yakima is that there are
not enough good cows. For butter Jer-
seys are the best, but .Holsteins rank
higher for cheese. There are compare.
lively few Of these cows here although
their milk will realize from $50 to 800
per year. Should DIR. w. +. Morrison,
with his lao acres Of alfalfa, conclude to
engage in dairying where could he pur-
chase the 200 graded cows that bis alfalfa
would feed? Certainly not in Yakima.
and il this is fact with regard to one
farmer what about the hundreds who are
scattered throughout these valleys? We
need more cows-only good ones--to con-
sumo our alfalfa so there will be sufficient
milk for many creameries to furnish the
butter and cheese to supply the demand
which now exists. A country that is
largely devoted to dairying is a country
of wealth.
A project is now under consideration to
establish creamery at North Yakima
with capacity for using the cream Of 400
lows. The plans contemplate skimminy
stations at various points throughout the
neighboring valleys where milk will be
purchased at an established price per
pound, when it comes up to the standard
for butter fat, and when not, graduated
reductions will be made. This plan will
stimulate and encourage the improve
ment OF the breed Of cows, for the differ.
'nce between the amount of milk and its
butter fat qualities OF good and poor cows
is the difference between success and fail
IRE. The farmer will then study his
stock with view to the best profit. The
question OF stabling and fodder will enter
into his calculations. and when this time
comes he has paved the road to wealth.
With dairying and the establishment
of creameries and milking stations, an
other industry is fostered and that is the
raising Of hogs. Extensive tests have shown
chat skim milk, especially when fed in
connection with corn meal, proves val
liable food. 1t takes alone 1875 pounds OF
milk, or 534 pounds of meal to produce
100 pounds of pork; but when fed togeth-
er, the same result may be obtained by
the use of l76 pounds OF meal and 53S
pounds OF milk 1t is estimated that the
value of skim milk from an average COW
can be reckoned at $l2.
There has never been time in the his
tory of agriculture when 80 many farmers
were casting about for new crops to d.
versify their operations, and among those
which are attracting attention and grow
ing in favor are field peas for feed ng. It
might we'll take the place OF oats to some
extent, or be sown with oats, and so pro-
duce much more valuable crop than the
latter alone. Peas have twice as much
digestible protein or muscle-forming food
as oats and more than twice as much as
corn. In itself this is a sufficient reason
why they should have a larger place
among our grain crops and in our feeding.
As forage crop to be pastured off it
would be hard to name anything better
than peas and oats sown together. Hogs
turned upon peas when they are nearly
ripe will make flesh more rapidly than
when on full corn ration. The yield OF
peas will average twenty-five bushels to
an acre, but full crop on good land is
thirty-6ve TO forty-five bushels. When
peas and oats are sown together on good
land the yield has been at times seventy
five bushels per acre, but half that is,
perhaps. the average. As they will grow
well in cool weather, in fall as in spring,
q late sown crop will often prove valuable
in experimenting exhausted pastures, but
early planting produces the best results.
1t is not an expensive crop to experiment
with, and we would be glad 10 see our
farmers testing it for themselves. There
is no other way OF SO surely proving
whether it is adapted to your particular
needs.
There are now a punohar NJ inorhatoxs