The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-08
Good Dairying Not overdone.

Is dairying overdone Poor dairying is
overdone but good dairying is not. This
IS about as correct an answer as occurs
at this time, says an Iowa farmer in the
Wisconsin Agriculturist The number of
COWS anywhere cannot be increased only
at about a certain ratio each year. Those
WAo keep COWS for dairy purposes keep
Sr-2H herds, as rule. and until a sue
cesstul milking machine has been pro-
duced and comes into general use, this
condition will likely continue
OF course there are some large diaries
IN this country, where cows are kept by
the hundreds, but such herds are rather
rare exceptions, and good proportion of
them are kept by milkmen not far from
large cities These herds are kept up by
purchase, and the owners of them can be
more properly called milkmen than dairy
men. They are not dairymen in the true
sense. They do not raise their herds nor
the crops on which they are fed, but de-
-end mainly on purchase of feed used.
Most of these herds are managed very
successfully and by men who give the
business intelligent attention. There is
little danger of the milk business, as IT
relates to large cities, being oVerdone.
But if at any time it should be, those in
= on large scale near cities can get
out of it very easily by disposing of their
herds. Those who are distant from the
cities, who have been furnishing milk for
milk routes, can easily change to some
other branch of the business, such as
The real question whether dairying is
overdone or likely to be overdone, applies
to those dairymen who have for years
been growing up herds for dairy cows. and
who can, each year, if they choose to
dc so, increase them up to the capacities
of their farms, which capacities will be
constantly increasing if the right system
of dairying is correctly conducted.
One great thing in favor of dairying is
that the real profit consists in not seeing
how many cows a farm will keep, as
much as in seeing how much can be pro-
duced from each COW. These dairymen
who practice the best methods, and get
the best results, cannot be driven out of
the business by an occasional depression
of prices. The man who makes his small
herd of say six to twelve cows produce
as much butter or cheese as his neighbor
who keeps nearly double that number, will
not say anything about dairying being
overdone. because his products cost him
less. and as a result he gets more for
them, pound for pound. than the dairy
man who is keeping double the number
of cows.
The result will be that, the man who
does not succeed in dairying will go out
of the business, either that or Improve
his methods.
II addition to our home markets we
have good markets abroad, provided we
furnish good dairy products. However,
our home markets CAM be greatly en-
larged by the same means, and the addi- /
tional means of producing greater va /
TleIy OIL CHe6Se lHdl Can ne plOQQSCO' anu
such varieties as will create d greater |
demand for cheese among the American |
people.
Doubtless the dairy interest has suffered |
more from bogus dairy products than /
rom any overproduction of genuine goods. !
But it is safe to say that there has been /
a great change in public opinion in re-
gard to curtailing the output of bogus /
goods to be sold as genuine. No objec-
ton is made to the manufacture of oleo- |
and butterine, if they are |
sold for what they are, but the presump- /
Ton is that in large per cent of cases, [
persons who buy them for consumption, (
)uy them for genuine dairy. products. This
s not right and should be stopped, and
n a great measure will be.
Taking everything into consideration we
-hink il is safe TO conclude, as stated in
he first sentence of this article. that
-cod dairying is not overdone. and fur
her that there is no immediate danger
II it being overdone. Like all other
branches of agriculture. it will have its
seasons of depression, but as rule, less
requent than in most other lines of farm
Jroducts