The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-12-13
THE DAILY project.
Sowe Iitete.iinr Points From unr whs
Understaud. the Bu.tne.s


Below we print a communication FROM
Prof. +. b. LinfeIi Of the Agricultural
College at Logan, which contain. some
valuable points 20 ali interested in this
important question
LooAS, Utah, Dec. 5, 1875.
EDITOR rNEs.
At the request Of Prof. Mills aud the
invitation Of the editor, will make a
few comments on dairyingas profitable
line ot business Tor our farmers. and
how they should handle 10 90 secure the
greatest advantage thereirom.
have never visited summit county
noe had the pleasure Of talking with or
to her people. yet have travelled quite
a little through Utah and have yet
failed to see a dsiric, that would not
compare a3orably with the best dairy
districts OF the east. am fully con.
WINGED, therefore, that u our people will
but inteIlg ntly study the business w.
can produce ~ good butter and cheese
as may be made anywhere IN America.
Furthermore, think We can produce
these articles rs cheaply. aye, cheaper
than can be done In the eastern states
Our average cost last year Tor feeding
our herd u fourteen cows. charging
market prices for the feed. was 800
Missouri station putsthe average cost At
S'sj year Minnesota at s37.s2 aud New
York ut $40 Our average food cost for
one pound Of butter lat q Ia pounds Of
butter was 10 cents. Our best COW pro.
duccd Il for cents. The average cost
at Minnesota was ~ cents for one pound
NJ butter lat and the best COW produced
IL for lOis cents. II Is thus apparent
that owing to the cheapnes- as well as
TO the great nuiritive value Of our iod.
ders, cured % they can only be in our
climate, We possess decided advantage
over our eastern neighbors.
heard Ex-Governor Hoard OF Wis
consin say some years ago that for over
twenty-five years he had heard people say
that dairying was going 10 be oyerdone
hut there seems to bea lively demand
for dairy products vet, though prcduc-
ton has increased more than a hundred
fold. The only oycrproduction Is one d!
poor quality goods, which very few want
to buy and fewer still want TO eat. \
pound vi poor butter will last two or
three times as long asa pound Of good
butter. Thus an improved quality
means an enlarged consumption.
Utah has a. yet scarcely started 10
build factories. Iowa, which in area Is
considerably smaller than Utah, has
has over 1000 cheese factories. ! do not
know OF more than twenty factories In
Utah, hendling from 1900 TO 1000 pounds
Of milk up. Ono-third Of these are in
Cache valley and there Is room for three
or four more.
Tue lirst requisite TO success In the
dairy business is q proper kind Of person
as the head OF It on the farm person
who IL enthusiastic in the work. know
Of nothing better able to create this en-
thusiam than a careful peruss Of the
reports OF the meetings OF the various
State Dairy Conventions, the dairy press
and u course NJ the Agricultural College,
Secondly, We want good cows. These
are nearly always found associated With
the right kind ola man, but ~ 1t is d
point oi Importance wish to draw q
few comparisons. our poorest COW last
wear produced III pounds 81 butter; oul
best, 3Gj pounds. At 20 cents a pound
the former gave us S3l.2O, or about, sll
oye the cost Of her feed the latter CAV,
$40. or about, S4s over the cost OF heI
feed. Viewed from the profit stand
point. therefore, the best COW was eqIn
to4 Of thepoorest, and It issurely mucl
less trouble To- care for one COW than lo
five, and the one will take much les
room in the stable. when we conside
that there are many herds that do no
average more than 100 pounds OF butte
ycar-in fact have met those VIII,
thought their COWS were doing well
they averaged ~ much-when we con
NlNFI TINS We Alf liNA FNl NiAHNN W wv
such dairymen ~ say there Is no monc'
In the business. But they have not gon,
far enough back the lack Is In ;hem
selves, not In the business. From jun
/, 1891. 10 June /, 1895, we sold Of milk
butter cheese and veal calves i67
worth from fourteen cows and a heifer
which latter MIXED but Fix months
This was without reckoning the skin
milk fed to hogs which would increas,
the sum nearly 500. It cost S3l5 a
market prices to feed the cows. Their
are great many people in the state Wit
would look after the cows isr year To-
the difference.
Dairying has never attained the great
est success from state or natona
standpoint without large measure o
cooperation. When butter or cheese I
D 81 L. Il.