The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

opment or the man the greater HI.
needs. One of the first men of whom
we have any record was a shepherd
but few generations later the herds
man came on the scene. AS to why
primitive man subdued and held cap.
tive the void cattle of the forest Of
plain we know not; perhaps because
ing clothing, or perhaps. and more
probably, because he valued highly the
! flesh as an article of food.
We know not how man first became
acquainted with the value of milk; per-
haps the force of circumstances first
compelled him to investigate its merits
i and the investigation proved so sue
cessful that the merit Of the new drink
was heralded among the tribes, or per-
haps he reasoned from analogy in the
experience of the early life of his kind
! Certain it is, however, that very early
| in history milk is found as an article
| of diet for man. Later it was observed
! that when the milk was allowed to
stand, a thick yellow layer raised to
the top, which made a most excellent
! ointment, used as such by the ancients
and priced most highly. 1t has been
only within comparatively modern
! times that man has learned to use the
fat of milk as a food. A product of
milk, however which was early found
of value was the curd, formed first,
undoubtedly, from the naturally soured
milk.
The keepers of cows were the worlds
great civilizers. They had taken an
important step in the subsection of the
world around. Cows were among mans
first possessions-they were one of his
first standards of value. In the process
of time, as the population of the coun-
try increased, it became no longer pos
sible to gather suStenance for the stock
without cultivation of the soil, and so
the herdsman became a farmer. The
milk and milk products were first pro-
duced only for the home. Man could
not be persuaded to draw more milk
than was necessary for the use of the
family. As time passed, however, milk
became the raw material for the pro-
duction of large quantities of butter
and cheese, to be traded for other
things not produced by the owner of
the COWS.
In modern times commercialism has
seized the world, and the COW has not
escaped its influence. That COW is val
ued most highly which produces the
most largely, and care has been taken
to develop as many of her kind as pos
sible by raising calves only from the
good cows. A continuation Of this
method, within limits, has produced
the type Of cattle in which the milk
producing function is abnOrmaIly de-
veloped, it having been found that
such arge-producing animals We're
more economic producers, or, in other
words, they returned the most for the
food and care bestowed upon them.
Accompanying this process of eco
nOmic production comes that of eco
nomic manufacturing. 1t was long ago
apparent that large quantity of milk
could be handled much more cheaply,
in proportion, than a small quantity,
and COWS were let out, so that large
herds were thus gathered together and
the milk products manufactured by one
person. The next step was to keep the
COWS at home and send the milk to a
central place to be manufactured into
butter and cheese.
CONDITIONS IN UTAH.
Representatives of many Of these
stages of development in the dairy
business may yet be found in this stale.
In not few places the method fol-
lowed in getting milk for the family is
to milk the COW on one side while tire
calf helps himself from the other. I
learned of one instance during the past
season where a man was receiving $40
a month for the milk from his cows,
but after a time could not persuade
himself to any longer milk them, and
so he let the $40 per month so. Milking
was too big job. He had not yet
reached that stage where his will could
direct his energies into caring for COWS,
or perhaps the COWS were such that the
had to be spread over too
many Of them, while the returns were
in no wise commensurate with the en-
ergies necessary to be put forth. In
either case, however, it represented a
lack in the mantle cows were his.
and for what they were he was re-
SponSihle.
The method of letting cows out for
the summer to some dairyman, who
feeds the COWS. raises the calves and
promises 4 certain amount Of produce /
1T the end of the season, the rest TO be /
retained as pay for the trouble, was /
l quite general practice in the state (
ten to fifteen years ago, and is followed /
10 q considerable extent even now in /
some of the small outlying valleys. |
Eight to ten dollars and the calf We're |
he usual return for the cow for the /
year. She was generally dry, or nearly |
20, when returned to her owner in the !
ALL and had to get her living on the /
arm during the winter, so she was not |
| rich investment.
UTAH'S FIRST DAIRY.
Ten years ago, on the bottom land |
Moroai and Fountain Green,
S2npete county, there was started the
irst modern cooperative dairy in the
state. The first cream separator ever
lsed in Utah was here put in operation.
During last September, 1 visited this
actory. 1t is yet in successful opera !.
ion. 1t is G. low, stone building, half
n a side hill. small in size, and the
.pparatuS was giving evidence of
or n
cleanliness and care. For the
text five years only a few enterprises
f like character were started, and
many of those without the thorough in
estigation which was necessary to in
ure a lasting success. Some Of the
actories started during this time have
cen total failures, others have had
recarious existence, while but very
ew have kept pace with the charging
airy interests. During the last FIVE
ears much more rapid progress has
cen made. so that now there are over
orty cheese and butter factories and
en- Swimming stations in successful OPP
ration, scattered over the state. Many
these are receiving from 10000 TO 49,
DO pounds of milk per day during the
ummer, while the largest amount
andled by any factory was q, 600
ounds per day, by the Statewide fac
Dry, Weber county.
But while the creameries have been
rowing, the dairymen, as a class. have
ct been idle. Five to ten years ago ]
utter and cheese were shipped INFO {
ne state by the carload, and much of {
nat which came was an imitation ar ]
ELECTROMAGNETIC and filed cheese.
through the influence of the Dairy as
lciation, which was organized in 1894, !
TVS have been enacted which have !
ractically shut out the trade in these ]
nitation articles The result has been I