The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-15
REVOLUTION IN DAIRYING.

A gradual revolution is in progress III the
dairying industry of the coast, and the old
methods are giving place to new. The
creamery process is being introduced right
along in the coast counties from Del Norte
to Santa Barbara, and that process will en-
able California dairymen to compete with
Eastern fine products in any market.
An interesting and instructive interview
was had by CALL reporter yesterday with
A. II. Hills of Hills Brothers, dealers in
dairy produce.
THE California dairyman has become
alive to the fact that he has to go at his bust
ness on strictly business principles, said
Mr. Hills. "He must produce his butter
on scientific plan and manage his indus
try with minute attention to every detail.
He must know whether cow is giving per
cent or per cent of milk. Practically it
does not cost any more to keep 4-per-cent
COW than it does to keep a 2-per-cent one.
Poor cows must be welded out, and the
dairyman must produce from 20 to 80 per
cent more butter at the same cost of pres
ent production.
1.-THE creamery business is the only solu-
ton of profitable diaries. They are being
established wherever ii is possible to place
one. In each district, however, milk
should be confined to as few creameries as
possible, because the larger the creamery
the cheaper the cost of manufacture and
the greater the value of uniform quality
of butter.
cat present there are practically no
shipments of California dairy products to
the East California butter that has been
shipped has been below the Eastern fancy
grades.
"Now, when California has creameries
enough to turn out carloads of high grade
goods, all neatly packed and all made
within a few days, our butter will take a
higher place in the estimation of Eastern
manufacturers and consumers, and find
markets where to-day it is unknown.
There is not enough strictly high grade
goods produced here to permit it to be
offered in the markets in sufficient lots for
the Eastern trade"
A. w. Hutchins of Elgin, H., was in the
city few days since. He represents the
big colony of dairymen which is being or
gained at Elgin and vicinity, and which
will establish mammoth creamery near
Bakersfield in this State.
Mr.. Hutchins is the very personifcation
of business tact and energy. He is man
of some means, and his prominence in the
business circles from which he comes NAV
be appreciated in the knowledge of the
fact that for the last seventeen years he
has held continuously the office of secre-
tdIy VI tIle IlSlH I'LL DOdru Oh 1TdQe.
This position he has now resigned, with
the object in view of removing to this
State, as a promoter and member OF the
Bakersfield colony of dairymen.
Mr. Hutchins spent three weeks in Kern
County prior to his arrival. He is the
agent of the Elgin dairymen who have
concluded that in California is to be found
the most profitable field for their efforts in
the creamery business.
Mr. Hutchins stated that his trip to
Bakersfield had been solely for the pur-
pose of investigation, and to report on the
conditions he found in that country rela-
tive to the industry proposed to be estab-
lished there.
1.-THE conditions have been found so
favorable" he declared, "and l am so we'll
with the country and its prospects
that I have already resigned my office in
the Elgin Board of Trade, and, on my re-
turn there, the colony will straightway be-
gin preparations to proceed west The
of the colony are all men of
more or less means, and they are all practi-
cal dairymen. | will return here in A pril,
and the colonists will come out as soon as
their affairs there can be settled"