The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-02-15
Delivered at Dairymen's Con-
vention, Dec. 2o-3I, by Adam
M. Stevens, of EIlensburg -.

COWS no longer went dry in October,
but the flow of milk became perpetual.
A cash dividend twice month was a
stimulus that carried the dairyman
through the financial depression that
crippled every other industry in the
land.
The dairy cow is an exacting friend.
She resents trif1ing with or neglect, but
responds literally at the pail for good
care and generous feeding. 1t is well
said: "The dairy industry is the foun-
dation of successful agriculture" The
dairy cow is a producer of wealth. A
ton of butter shipped to the Sound
markets brings at the present time
about 5000, every dollar of which cir
culates among the creamery patrons
and proprietors-divided among the
patrons according to the amount of in
telligence they put into their business,
and the length Of time they have been
improving their herds. To illustrate:
The yearly average amount of money
paid to the patrons of the lockwood
creamery for the last three years has
been $4,000. The yearly average make
of butter has been 100000 pounds. The
highest income per COW per year is
$S5. The lowest income per cow per
year is $780, Here is a difference of $55
yearly income per cow as between the
best and the poorest cows in our midst.
Go where you will in the dairy dis
tricts, and this difference or even a
greater difference between the best and
the poorest COWS is found.
w. G. Hayward of Thorp, Kittitas
Valley, milks total or eight cows, one
cows milk is used for the calves and
nearly the whole of one cows milk is
used for the house. His creamery
statements are as follows: Pounds of
milk, 41,177; pounds Of butter, 2,282.7;
average test, 40; pounds of skim milk,
32,942, which, valued at 20 cents per
hundred pounds, equals $6588; amount
of milk checks, $542.16; total, $618.04.
Here is $77.25 per cow, per year, not
withstanding nearly all the milk of
two COWS was used for the calves and
in the house, and each cow produced a
calf.
If you will excuse me for being per-
sonal, will say the record of Elm
wood herd for the year beginning SEPT.
1, 1902, and ending Aug. 81, 1903, is
84,172 pounds of milk and 5,690.5
pounds of butter. Cash received for
same was $1,35S.61. Average per cow
(19 cows), 1887 pounds of butter and
6,474 pounds of milk; average cash
per COW, $104.50. This for butter. No
credit is given for skim milk or calves,
but it is a safe proposition that the
skim milk and calves have more than
paid all the expenses of the herd. We
have been 10 years building up Elm
wood herd. We are on good terms
with butcher, and as a consequence
we keep no poor COWS.
Well, what are the poorest COWS do
ing up in Kittitas? Well, gentlemen, 1
want to go back home, and l do not
like to tell; but there are quite a num-
Der of good herds in Kittitas, as may be
inferred from the reports of our honor
able dairy commissioner, e. A. Nc
Donald, and some of our creameries.
Our dairy commissioner furnished me
the figures as follows: "The amount of
butter manufactured from Dec. 1, 1902,
to Dec. 1, 1903, in Kittitas county was
755,371 pounds, and that of Yakima
county was 415,425 pounds. There
was no cheese manufactured in Kittitas
county. There was 100000 pounds of
cheese made in Yakima county.
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