The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-08-25
Dairy Notes.

49,
factories; the annual output of butter
and cheese amounts to ST. 1,250000,' y
ex-Gov. Hoard says. "Add to this the
value of private dairies, calves, etc.,
and we have total value of two MIL
lions annual revenue from the COW
alone in Jefferson county"
A careful and conservative estimate
gives the amount of butter daily con-
sumed in the state OF Washington at
$4,000 pounds, and for the week $780,
GOO pounds. This at 25 cents pound
amounts $S7 800 weekly. Now of this
amount, as near as can be ascertaihed,
the state Of Washington only furnishes
weekly about $4,000 pounds, which at
25c per pound amounts to $12.5OO,
leaving 100000 pounds to be furnished
from the East and outside the state,
which at 25c per pound amounts to
$4,000 which goes out of the state
weekly for that one article alone, when
nature has given us the climate, water
and soil for-as fine dairy country as
the world eyes saw. Right here is
material for a boom that would result
in material wealth and prosperity to
our people. We confess the above
figures are astonishing, but they are
too near true. We as state are like
the nation under a democratic tariff
when we bought from abroad more
than We sold; and therefore our money
went from home. So the state of
Washington sends thousands of dollars
away from home for what she could
and ought to produce herself. The
people have the remedy within them
selves. Will they utilize the vast re-
sources which nature with a lavish
hand has bestowed upon this fair
state?
But to bring the matter right home
TO our people, G. F. Kienstra, OF the
Montesano Creamery, paid out on
August Z, to the farmers for July
milk, 81 600; or at the rate of $4,000
per year, to be distributed among our
people who patronize the creamery
which of course very soon works into
the channels of trade. Here are the
names of some who drew the largest
amounts: ]. A. Gilkey, 1914; Merritt
Wood, $49.13: D. Wilkie, $57.76;
Francis Smith, $4696; Lucy Oberg,
$74; J. P. Garrison, $53.65. In the
Yakima country not long ago their
payroll was 70 larger than this; now
in one plant there it runs to over $4,-
600 monthly, with some of the patrons
drawing checks each month of $3.50
and $3.50, which during a year
amounts to $500 and $4,000. The
three main plants there are now re-
ceiving daily about 10000 pounds OF
milk and distributing thousands of
dollars yearly IN that community.
There is no business in our state that
the farmers can engage in that will
bring them the cash every every
month in the year as will daifying,
when they have good creamery with
in easy distance where they are sure, as
they are here, of their cash each
month. The farmers of Wisconsin
raised grain and hay for the market
until nearly all their farms were bur
dened with mortgages; but when they
turned their attention TO the COW and
to dairying, the state has increased
in prosperity and wealth and one by
one have the mortgages been lifted
from off the hearthstone and the old
homestead is free and clear of all en-
cumbrances. All the great dairy COM
munities are the most prosperous and
freer from debt than any communities
in the MISUNDERSTANDING Vidette.
"
For SALE. William Doble farm of
100 acres in Shelton Valley, Good
house, ten acres IN cultivation, or
chard in bearing. cuts about eight tons
hay. Third is first class land, rest
timbered, granite ledge etc. Price
$1,000.
For over decade the cedar shing-
lea of Washington have been going
east in car loads and train loads.
Dealers all over the country have kick
ed about them; they were too thin,
too thick, too dry, too wet, timber too
old, too punky, too wide, too loosely
packed, too wormy and too bum. Ev-
cry kind of kick known to man since
the jackass on the ark, kicked at his
accomodations, have been duly regis
tered by dealers. In spite of all these,
consumers kicks are rare and after
more than ten years Of trial they are
the shingle that the house builders of
Of the east still demand. The kicker
cometh up in the morning like pepper
grass, turneth around at noon like the
hopper grass and is cut down at night
fall all the same as the jackass, so
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