Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-02-07
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lamook country applies so closely
to the Yaquina and Alsea countries
that we reproduce it:
In climate and natural facilities
for carrying on the dairy industry
Tillamook county cannot be beaten
IN the world. 1t is natural white
clover country, and we have from
nine to ten months Of green feed.
The climate is cool; the ther-
mometer never registering more
than 80 degrees in summer, and
seldom as high as that; in winter
1t never gets colder than 10 degrees
below freezing. The climate in
summer is simply grand; there be-
ing very little fog-not one fourth
the fog there is on the coast of
California anywhere within two
hundred miles north or south of
San Francisco. The writer of this
having lived on California coast for
seven or eight years knows whereof
he speaks.
The water here is pure and cold,
contains no mineral substances, and
is in abundance. There is very
little snow in this region. Some
times foot of snow will tall and
lie on the ground for a week, but
we have an abundance of rain,
about sixty inches being the annual
rainfall, and that falls between the
first Of October and the last of
April. From that time through
the summer, there are light showers,
enough to keep the grass green and
growing all the time and keep the
dust and forest fires down. A good
common mich COW, to dairy her
here, through the natural pasturing
season, will produce about two hun
dred and fifty pounds Of butter, and
if properly fed and dairied through
the winter would produce four
hundred and fifty pounds of fine
gilt edge butter, and she would not
have to be fed over four months of
the year. There are counties that
dairy on grass and they are recon-
mended as first-class dairy counties
too, but their whole green grass
season is only from two to three
months while we have eight months
OF the finest grass in the world.
We have in this country open
land enough, if put into grass, to
support and dairy ten thousand
cows.
The yearly gross receipts would
be about seventy dollars a cow
which would be a low average-pro-
ducing the neat little sum of seven
hundred thousand dollars yearly in
dairy products alone, and with the
other produce raised with the
residue, skinned milk, such as
swine, chickens and calves, would |
send the products up to about eight
hundred thousand golden dollars
too, for golden butter is one of the
luXuries of civilization of the high |
est order, and may the curse of
civilization rest on those who re-
place 1t with that piratical and most
horrible compound Of grease and
filth that bears the name of oleo-
or "bull" butter, and
who would try to ruin one of the
finest industries of the civilized
world, one more of the schemes of
monopolist to control an industry
that makes millions of the most
progressive people Of the world
happy and produces four times
more wealth than any other pro-
duction of America.
While other farm productions
have fallen in value, butter has in
creased. Cheese and butter bring
nearly or more than double the
price they did forty years ago. The
writer, while boy, lived in one of
the finest dairy regions in the
United States, near the counties of
Orange and Duchess, state of New
York, and l know the best butter
brought from only ten to twelve
cents per pound, but now the finest
brands Of that butter never bring
IN the market less than tweutv.five