The record-union., 1896-02-03
OUR RESOURCES.
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every particular We have written
them for particulars, and hope to have
a full description of their plant in this
book. This company sells pure milk
under a guarantee of % per cent.
cream; also pure butter done up in neat
and tasty packages, as well as ice
cream, delivered direct to the consumer.
By their system of organization the
producers are stockholders, from whom
the milk is purchased, under a test, by
the one hundred pounds weight, and
the price paid ranges from 81 10 per
hundred in summer to 81 30 in winter.
At stated periods dividends are de-
clared, and the returns show the pro-
ducer to have received from 212 cents
per quart in summer to 3 cents in win
ter, which price is satisfactory to the
sellers by quantity. No reason exists
why the large cities and towns of Cali
fornia could not be similarly supplied
by responsible milk companies. Such
a plan would benefit the producer, and
be a blessing to the consumer. This is
an avenue for organization and invest
ment; it is a field practically unde-
veloped, and one in which the possi-
bilities are limitIess. Nothing would
better promote improved breeding and
sale of high class stock than a few or
ganizations of this kind in our State.
There could also be maintained, in con-
nection Herewith, a. cold storage plant,
whereby the surplus of summer butter
that sells from u to IA cents per pound
could be kept for the 80 and 40 cent
market OF the winter. This system
need not be confined to butter, but
could include chickens, eggs and other
farm products that glut the market in
summer, and for which in winter there
is a steady demand at good prices
The San Francisco Board of Health
have our lasting gratitude for their
earnestness- in bringing to light the
atrocities practiced by the average
vender of milk in that city. In In
spector Dockery they have selected a
faithful and fearless official, whose acts
in the fulfllment of his duties should
receive proper recognition from the
authorities of San Francisco The
showing made by this official of the
adulterations of milk, to say nothing
Of the filthiness practiced by the so
called milkmen of that city, brings
home to all the necessity of the reorgan-
ization of the method of supplying milk
TO customers, and to our mind such an
organization as we have referred to
a boon to the farmer and stockraiser.
Unless our citizens take advantage of
the chance now offered, the opportune
time will pass and we will be compelled
20 use foul milk instead of the healthy
article so necessary to human life.
As to the future of the dairy business,
we cannot more aptly express. our mind
than by quoting from a contributor
upon this subject to this volume He
says: Improved methods must take the
Place Of the happy -go-lucky ways of the
past. Our farmers viii have to learn
the true economy of judicieus high
feeding and good care. A cow which,
GA light feed, will barely pay expenses,
may. by properly increasing her feed,
register a profit. Improve your breeds
by the use Of thoroughbred sires of good
quality and useful ancestry. Study
markets and more advantageous meth
DDS of use and sale of your products. Be
scrupulous as to purity. The real dairy
man should be deadly enemy to all
kinds Of adulterations of food, all So
phistication of products, as both are
done at the expense of the farmer |
whose voice should be raised at all |
times and places in favor of pure foods. |
To successfully conduct the dairy bust |
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manufacturer and a merchant It is
business that requires a high degree |
of intelligence, as it tends to promote
thought and study
The increase of dairy products is one
Of the best indications of prosperous
community, and its extension is sure to
invite means for the care of its output |
As referred to elsewhere in this arti- |
Gle, cold storage of the surplus summer
products for winter sale is bound to be |
the next move as an adjunct of this in
dustry.
TOBACCO.
It is not generally nown, but it is
nevertheless a fact, that California has
within her boundaries more land
adapted to the culture of tobacco than
all the tobacco-producing States east |
of the Rocky Mountains, and more par
ticularly is this true as to the produc-
tion of the kind known as cigar leaf, a
variety that has made Connecticut fa-
nous; the climate is also peculiarly well
adapted to the curing of the Havana
seed leaf. The coast counties are more
especially the favored section for the
growth of aromatic tobaccos, while the
Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
will abundantly grow the class known
as Virginia, North Carolina and Ken
tucky tobacco. The grower, however, |
needs proper guidance (Which is easily |
obtainable) in the growing and curing |
OF this plant. Soil analysis is neces-
sary, so that the character of seed to |
be planted may be known; then comes |
the preparation of seed beds and their |
care; then the tilling of the ground for |
receiving the plants and the knowledge |
OF proper time to set them out. Instruc |
tion is also needed as to cultivation of
the plant to maturity; then the cutting, |
curing and packing for market. From |
those who have been engaged in this in
dustry we are most credibly informed /!
that 1t is very remunerative, and will |
warrant close study and should be, by |
reason of our climatic conditions, one |
of the leading crops of the State. But, |
like m4Ay other undeveloped resources, |
tt is allowed to remain dormant for |
want of concentrated effort in pushing /
1t. J. D Culp Of San Felipe, Santa Clara |
County, who is one of the oldest, if not |
the pioneer tobacco-grower of Califor- |
mia, and who has made marked success |
in its cultivation, we are informed, |
stands ever ready to give beginners the |
advantage of his methods and expert |
ments. Edgar Briggs of GA Page street, |
San Francisco, is another pioneer in |
this industry, and has kindly consented |
to aid it's extension by preparing a |
practical paper upon the subject for /
publication in this volume, and which |
will cover all the points necessary for |
anyone who may desire to experiment |