Arizona republican., 1902-05-26
A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT
Success of the Hotel Adams Jersey
 Dairy Farm.

Ti1e Hotel Adams Jersey farm has
 now reached q stage where it may not
 onls be pointed to with pride by the
 c5.ner but can he alluded 10 by th@
 public generally as an illustration 0:
 what can be done in the dairy business
 iH this valley by good mana cement and the necessary capital to work with.
 Asked i5 he considered his stock farm
 as good financial investment. Mr. Adams replied yesterday that he cer-
 tainly did and proceeded to tell why. He began operations there three years ago. starting the farm principal
 l. fer the purpose Cf supplying his
 hotel with dairy products. In order to ma&e a success of it as he would in any
 ether business he was constantly mak- ing Improvements and adding 10 his
 nerds by new purchases as well Gs by
 natural increase. lie is now milking between 60 and 70 COWS and making
 350 pounds of butter weekly. The butter market is lower rov, than at any time since he began his farming 1 operations, and yet the receipts of the dairy are paying the expenses cf the farm and returning a profit Of $l00 monthly. Aside from this Mr. Adams sold during the year over 5000 worth | ! creased herd. He has of course in
 vested a great deal cf money in good
 cattle but believes it has paid him to get the best, and aside from the in 1 crease retained and the monthly profits i of the dairy. the cattle sold annually will return big interest on the money l invested. ne bought nothing but the ! bast he coUl,i find ii the country when ! p ha3 ,lH I to his herd from the best dairy stock 1 in the valley. He now has in propor-
 ton tc the size Of his herd. more blue
 ribbon cows with official butter rec cIds than any herd in the United States. He has satisfied himself that
 it pays to run 9 dairy and run it right and that it pays 10 have the best stock.
 He has found though that the farm has become a business by itself and at this time can hardly be called an ;3d- junct of the hotel. It has outgrOwn that institution in the way Of butter product and that is where some of his critics have predicted that he would
 find disaster. But on the contrary, he
 has made market for his butter that
 he cannot begin to supply. It is an ether VeridcatiOn Of the old trIism that there is always q demand fer the best. When he closed the hotel dining room
 a few weeks ago he feared he would find himself showed in and buried in butter he could not dispose of. so he wrote to the leading commission men Of tke various territorial towns. in reply nearly all of them wanted a small sample lot of butter. It was sent and now they are all clamoring to be
 made exclusive agents in their respec- 1 tive towns. One firm wants to buy the entire dairy output. It is now ques-
 ton Of supplying the demand CT at ! least partly supplying it. so the gentle
 men with whom he began correspcnd-
 ence will not accuse him of making | false representa- tions.
 He expects to SC east again next | spring and buy another lot of the best Jerseys he can find SC that by anothe: season he will be making still more 1 butter. The people seem to be hungry i for it and he feels a sort of d moral | obligation to Sratify their apnetites. ] But the obligation is not an unselfish one. While his dairy farm may in a sense be a phiianthrophic institution i he is conducting il mostly for amuse- ment. He has d curiosity to see how many twenty dollar pieces he can make out of it in a year.