The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-04
WILL THE DAIRY PAY:

Every man who contemplates entering
into the dairy business should ask him
self the question: Can L make it pay?"
The answer to this question is peppered
all over with "ifs." If the man is ener-
getic. If he is reasonably wise, has a
business head, and if he has not got
hundred other things that accomplish the
financial ruin of so many men. 10 come
down to cold facts the question really
is not, can you succeed, but have not
others done SO under circumstances about
the same as yours? 1t can readily AZ
answered in the affirmative. 1t is not
only common sight but it can truth
fully be stated that a majority of those
Who have succeeded in the dairy in the
northern states started without anything,
going in debt for the COWS and renting
the farm until it was paid for. The fact
is there is no safer investment than sell
ing land to young man on long and
easy payments, who has proven himself
to be Industrious and a good manager.
But you imagine there is something
about the eastern market out of which
money is made that cannot be got out of
the western market. Let us look at this
question for a few minutes through the
cold spectacles of figures. L take the fol-
lowing from the columns of the Milk
Reporter: ''The New York Condensed
Milk company Bardens) announces that
it will pay for milk delivered at Johnsons,
n. y, during the six months commence
ing October LIST. as follows: October,
November and December, s1.50 per hun
dred pounds, equal to 1922 cents per quart:
January and February, $1.40 per hundred,
cents per quart, and for March, $130
per hundred, 2.79 cents per quart This
is an average of 3.07 cents per quart
The Anglo-Swiss at Middletown, Orange
county, N. Y, will pay per hundred for
October, $3.50; November and December.
$3.50 and February, sl.55, and for March,
S1.35, which is equivalent to 2.79 for Oc-
tober; 3.22 for November and December:
1888 for January and February and go
per quart for March, an average of 31S"
! The New York milk exchange has set
who ship milk to that city Net price.
September 1st to 18th, "a cents per quart
for milk and $3.50 per can for cream.
Commencing September 10th. and until
otherwise announced, 81 cents per quart
for milk and Sc per can for cream. Cans
hold ten gallons instead of eight, as is
the standard at the west, where prices
range about Is per cent. lower than at
the east. Now the question is. what can
you sell milk for or make out of it in
butter? When the northern farmer can
get one dollar a hundred pounds or ten
cents a gallon for some sections figure
ten pounds to the gallon) for milk, he
makes money and buys his own or his
neighbor's farm. The chances are that v Hr1
can get several times the above prices
for milk and yet you do not think YOU
can make 1t pay. Why not? You have
a climate far better adapted to the work
because it produces more feed to the acre
and has less cold weather to consume
the heat of the cows bodies, which costs
food. Surely you have the intelligence
and should nave the energy to do as well
not got is the knowledge and the COWS OF
the right calibre, but the knowledge can
be acquired and the right kind of cows
can be bought or, better yet, raised by
starting slowly, which is the proper way
to begin. L. S. Hardin in Home and
Farm,