Imperial press and farmer., 1901-11-23
DAlRY.NG IN CAlIFORNlA.

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 The California Cultivator, a paper that is we'll posted and very reliable on agricultural matters. has this to say on the question of dairying in California:
 Very few branches of the farming industry in this State have advanced with more rapid strides than the dairy. Not very many years ago Cali fornia imported the bulk of her but ter and cheese. trainload after train load coming across the Rockies from the fertile plains of the Middle West
 With the advent of Eastern farm CTS and improved methods, this state of affairs changed but the recent dry seasons came and in spite of every thing that could be done it seemed as though the dairy industry of the State was doomed. The papers were full of advertisements offering milch COWS for sale. The dairyman won dered where he was going to secure sufficient food for his stock. as the hign price of alfalfa made it of more profit to sell as hay than to feed for milk So. taken all in all, the dairy industry of the State of California, but more especially of the southern part, was in very bad way.
 ~' Now, we are glad to say, the tide seems to have turned and there is every indication that with the greatly improved conditions in all branches of farming, the high prices of prod uce and the vastly improved general conditions, the dairy business will once more take it's place in the front ranks.
 Of course. here as in all other places, there are dairies and dairies; on one farm you will find things in a thoroughly up-to-date condition, such as is shown by the illustration on this page Diaries like these are, we are sorry to say, the exception rather than the rule. for large proportion of farmers still keep their cattle in shacks and do not give them the treatment they deserve.
 Perhaps .nere has been no one thing more conducive to reform in this respect than the stringent rules adopted and enforced by nearly all cities where milk is sold. For in stance, the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco have adopted rules which make the cleanliness of the dairy of second importance only to the purity of the milk. This state ment may seem a little ambiguous when it is considered that the cleanli- ness of the dairy has much to do with the purity of the milk, but we use the term advisedly when we speak of purity, that is to say, the freedom from water, etc.
 It is but very few years since In spector Cookery of San Francisco in stituted a campaign against the San Francisco dairymen. The condition of the milk supply there was simply abominable, but through the action of the authorities it is now looked upon as quite model in this respect Los Angeles, too, has not been backward in the campaign for cleanliness. Un- der the present Board of Health rules the standard of the milk supply has been raised and the close supervision kept by the employees of the health department has had much to do in bringing about the improved condi tions in the dairies themselves.
 Another factor in the improved conditions of the dairies has been the Dairy Association, under whose aus pices most of the dairy meetings have been held hereabouts. At these meet ings the doctrine of cleanliness is preached and it is safe to say that among the members of the Dairy As sociation are found those who give the greatest care to their stock.
 It goes without saying that it does mt nav tO keen cows un1eSS the most