The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-27

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Inc Napa Register" contains the fol-
lowing relative to the Los Banos cream
cry:
MONDAY was pay day at Los Banos
creamery. The price paid was II cents
per pound for butter fat, which is 6S
cents per 100 pounds of per cent. milk.
Some were little better than 4 per
cent, while a few fell a point or two
below. A number of dairy men have
inquired out their profits and they av-
eraged from So to Sc COW per month.
This was very satisfactory, because it
is better than they can do by handling
their own milk, and they escape the
immense amount of work attached to
butter making and get their skinned
milk just the same.
If a man cam make So a month off
one, twenty cows would bring him in
500 a month There are many farm
ers who can care for twenty cows, while
Some can keep nearly twice that num-
Der. AT present the creamery is receiv-
ing about 5000 pounds of milk a day,
and during the next six months it ought
to increase to nearly four times that
amount.
There was over 81, 900 paid out by the
item to have that much cash turned
over each month, and it helps out ev-
cry line of business. AS we have al
ways predicted, a good creamery is one
of the greatest Improvements that can
be made in community where alfalfa
can be grown so plentiful as it can here.
SHEEP MEN HAPPY.
The Red Bluff News" contains the
following cheerful news:
The sheep men Of Tehama County are
now busy shearing their sheep, giving
employment for several weeks to a
large force of men. The price for
shearing this year is the same as it was
last year, cents per head. The 1eeces
this year are very good and clean as a
general thing, and if the growers could
only get a good price for their staples
they would, with the cattle men and
the orchardists, make things hum this
year, because when the sheep man is
flush ne generally let's others have a
share of his prosperity. Those who
have prospected the mountain feeding
grounds say that they are in excellent
condition, and that the sheep ought to
come out in the fall in the best pos
sible condition. With the prospects of
a good price for mutton, good feed for
the summer season, and a good in
crease to the f1ocks, the sheep men have
good prospects ahead even if there
seems to be no indications of the wool
market breaking into the buying field
IN NEED OF RAIN.
The Modesto Herald contains an
extensive article on the need of rain in
Stanislaus County. The following ex-
tracts from the article show the condi
ton:
Many West Side farmers report grain
suffering for rain, and there is much
grain on this side that is also manifestly
suffering. Winter sown on the West
Side will be very short unless rain
comes soon. A rain within a week will
give a big crop generally, and most of
the grain can go longer. Heavy dews
are helping out In the light of the
yield following the late May rain last
year, after a prolonged dry spell, we
are not inclined to be apprehensive. But
timely rain means an immense crop,
as against a fair or average crop 9TH
erwise.
MESAs FOR DAIRYING.
Lompoc Record: The vast region
of mesa land embraced within the Lom-
poe. Jesus Maria and contiguous
ranches is destined to be given over 10
dairymen- For grain growing these
lands are not sufficiently productive 10
make that business profitable. but for
dairying and stock raising any person
of fair intelligence can make a success.
The old methods of dairying are des-
tined to become abandoned and the
newer ways supplant them. The beet.
corn, squash and carrot. with the we'll
filled silo, will give to this branch of
industry a line of profits that have
hitherto been eft to those who pro-
vided for winter production of buttar
when prices are double the product
returned for summer dairying.
A band of fifty selected dairy cows
managed after the new methods, will
prove more profitable than a hundred
head Of the average dairy stock so gen.
orally in use heretofore
ROSES EVERYWHERE
The following from the Pomona
Progress shows something of the
floral wealth of California:
Never were roses more profuse or
mole beautiful than they are at present.
Go in whichever direction one will, a
radiance of fragrant beauty greets the
eye everywhere. Every rose bush is a
bright bouquet, the porch of nearly
every home is rose bower, and the
valley itself is a rose garden. The
lover Of brightness and beauty in ma
ture is in an earthly paradise at pres
ent.
A SELMA ENTERPRISE.
Fresno Republican: The members of
the Fresno Home Packing Company
are gentlemen who are we'll known in
Fresno County and the fact that they
have secured the Kutner- Goldste1n
warehouse at Selma wherein to do
stemming and packing will please many
people in that vicinity. The company
is putting in new machinery and will
be prepared to handle the large bust
ness which is sure to come to it. They
are. of course members of the Califor-
mia Raisin Growers Association. as they
have been from the inception of that en-
terprise. If their expectations are real
lied. and 1t Is almost certain that they
will be, the firm will put UP a substan-
tial building of their own in Selma, next
year, and will thus permanently estab-
lish home industry there, employing
home labor and benefiting the town
and neighborhood in many ways. They
will handle raisins and dried fruits, do
ing the stemming, packing and ship
ping. Such concern should, and no
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