The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-02-28
BIG PRICES NOW .
For Butter Fat-condensed Mink
Factory Factor-Creameries
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State Food and Dairy Conmis-
sioner Bailey was in town We'd
nesday, for a visit at the college,
where problems connected with his
office are frequently worked out.
He has returned but recently from
the East, where he attended the
National Livestock Association,
the meeting of which is to occur
next year in Portland. From the
latter event, Mr.. Bailey expects
much for the Webfoot state. The
attendance will be anywhere from
900 to 1900 men embracing
stock growers from all over the
country. Oregon is especially
adapted to the business in which
they are engaged, and Mr.. Bailey
feels sure that when the delegates
come and see the comparatively
l1ow-priced lands and the unusual
advantages for the livestock busi-
ness that many an investment by
men of means in Oregon will fol-
low. - siteS
s.Oregonians," Mr.. Bailey said,
''have an inadequate idea of the
real value of their opportunities in
the line of dalrying and stock rails
+! ing. In spite of the multiplied
ton of dairies and. creameries
throughout the state, the price of
butter is increasing, instead of
diminishing as many expected, and
still there is not enough of. the
product to supply the demand.
and we are importing vast guam,
titles. The reason is that there is
"a far greater consumption, We
eat three times as much butter as
we did formerly. This is not So
much due to increase of population
as it is to the fact that the better
the butter product. the more of it
there is consumed. Set a plate of
bad butter before even a hungry
man, and he wilt taste it, and for
the rest of his neal, leave it un
touched. Give him instead ? good
butter and he will eat it all and call
for more. The butter that Oregon
now makes is of first quality. A
first rate product is found at the
hotels and restaurants, and the re-
suit is that the state consumes three
times as much as it did few years
ago, exhausting not only. our own
product, but large stock of i'm
ported. In consequence, the price
is advancing and dairymen every
where are adding to their stocks
of cows, and are making money.
Oregon has not now more than
half the number of cows that she
needs.
'sThe butter product brings now
third to half more than it did
few years ago, and it will still
further increase in price. The
condensed milk factory in Wash
ington county is a factor that will |
still further advance prices and in
crease the profits of dairymen.
There, the price paid for butter fat
is 3S cents, or $1.4o per hundred
for milk. For market the factory
has the world, and the supply can
never exceed the demand. The |
factory is far behind on orders, and
in order to meet them is buying
milk from farmers at all points
along the Westside. It has taken
so great an amount of the product |
that several creameries have shut !
down, because at the higher prices
the farmers sell to the condensed
milk establishment rather than to. |
the creameries. 1t has been a loss
to the creamery owners, but great
gain tolthe farmers. II St.
9aMr. Bailey says that there is a
prospect. of the establishment of !,
other condensed milk plants in the I
state. .aA5 8st VS. sssg