Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-01-05
WHAT THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE
DAIRY INDUSTRY IN TIT RS
TON COUNTY ARE.

butter factories. and TWO combination
cheese factories and sklmming stations.
The latter two are owned by Seattle man,
and AZ" located near Rainier and Tenino
The two former are located. one at Ielm
and the other in olympia. The last Is an
rXuansionist and stands ready and anxious
/ to establish a cheese factory or skim
ming station wherever there is a locality
willing To back up the enterprise with
milk.
The responsibility of developing the dai-
ry industry of the Olympian country now
rests in a large measure with the farmer.
1t matters not who owns the plant if the
farmer fails to cooperate, doing his share.
i. e. producing the milk; hence it is a
proposition and inductry of cooperation.
The relation of dairying to diversified
agriculture. Properly managed. dairying
increasing the grain and fruit growing
capacity of any farm. by retaining and
adding to the fertility of the soil. If the
farm animal fertilizers are correctly taken
care of and applied to the soil in accord
ance with the nature of climate and soil
this means larger crops. maintaining more
COWS. and more COWS means more fertility
and still larger crops. And every ton of
mill feed bought and fed is transferring
the fertility of the other fellows farm to
the soil of yours.
Why the factory system? Just As good
"a product can be produced upon the farm
as in the factory. and possibly better.
provided the conditions are right. But can
the average herd of dairy cows support an
investment and expense OF Il modern outfit
and a skilled operator? a first class man 5
h..
earnings of the average dairy. And yet II
does not follow that IA properly managed
farm can not profitably carry a skilled
dairyman Thousands of dairy farms are
doing this very thing. The expert has
charge of the breeding and improving of
the stock. has charge of the feeding and
makes up the butter or cheese. Thus the
butter maker may control all the condi
tions. which play such an important
part in the production of a first class ar
ticle. The growth OF the factory system
throughout the world and especially in de-
cided dairy sections. demonstrates the
practicabiity of the factory system for the
dairy farmer. On large per cent of the
farms the duty of the care of the milk
falls on the housewife. who already IS
overburdened with cooking, washing.
mending clothes and numerous other
household duties. Is it to be wondered at
that people get tired of life?
Washington consumes about three hun
dred and fifty thousand pounds of butter a
week. and contributes towards that about
fifty thousand. which means that $4,000
are leaving the state each week for butter
alone with cheese in proportion. Is it
good policy to let this drain of wealth con-
tinue when il might be flowing into the
Golfers of the farmers of Washington? A
pound of Washington butter brings East
ern prices plus transportation and cost OF
handling when it arrives.
Daryng in Thurston County is in its in
fancy The Olympia Creamery has. since
its appearance September. 1898. manufact
ured over fifteen tons of butter. bringing
and distributing among its patrons over
100000. Many people in town and coun-
try alike are laboring under false i'm
preston. viz: that a centrifugal cream
separator makes creamery butter" The |
term creamery as it is used throughout |
the country means simply patroniZed |
butter factory. Good butter made on the !
farm is quoted in all dairy centres as |
choice dairy" and so on down the line. |
and oftentimes fancy dairy butter brings |
a higher price than creamery. And here |
in Western Washington there have been |
instances where this separator ranch but |
ter was branded creamery butter" and |
was bad. The grocer sells il to family for |
creamery butter. Not being able to eat |
il. they conclude to buy straight ranch |
butter thereafter. as creamery butter |
is y. G. These conditions in IA measure |
hurt the true creamery idea from the CON |
sumerS standpoint. Just as il the separa- |
tor taught the butter maker the delicate |
manipulation of the cream in its prepara-
ton for churning! The fact of the matter |
is that after the separator has done its |
duty. and the cream obtained there at |
that point the actual butter making begins |
where some meteorological knowledge is |
essential to the production of a uniform |
and first class article. Along all lines of |
industrial progress there are the leaders |
The mass of the people follow The ap- |
plication is identical in all classes of bust |
ness. and if the leaders in any community |
are started on the right track. the hang
backs" will eventually fall into line
Thurston County has some very progress
sive farmers. Their EFFORTS are right.
their hearts are right. Agriculture in its
various lines is a prominent resource of
Thurston County.