The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-09-01

ter in the year. The butter-making
industry has grown to wonderful pro-
portions. Alberta alone made over
$4,000 lbs. during May. The output
for the same month last year was
only $4,000 lbs.
The figures presented by the Cana
dian dairymen are fine object lessons
for every farmer in the northwest.
They indicate the future possibilities
of dairying. With the people in the
Oriental isles calling for butter and
the residents of the Yukon country
demanding dairy products, there is no
limit to the markets. New vessels
are entering the Pacific and seeking
something to carry to the world OF
humanity begging for the foods OF
America. Even when the dairy farms
of both our country and the Canadian
northwest are brought into reqlisition
the demand for butter cannot be sup
piled.
Ideal dairy conditions prevail in
all sections of the Puget Sound basin
and adjoining country. The climate Is
mild in winter and summer. No ex-
tremes of heat or cold are noticed
and the care of dairy COWS is not so
expensive as in more changeable dis
tricts. Grass grows all the year and
even the natural vegetation is desir-
able for feeding COWS. A dairy farmer
does not require large possessions of
lard to make the business profitable.
By patronizing cooperative cream
cries, the man with five COWS stands
on a level with his neighbor owning
ten times that number, and his prof
it's are proportionately as large as
others.
The commercial cities require more
farmers to supply the daily increas-
ing demands for food products. There
is plenty of room for rural expansion.
Many of the avenues of labor are over
crowded by men who would make sue
cessful farmers and dairymen. New
people coming in from the eastern
states see the opportunities and has
ten to grasp them before they are
gone. Land can be bought every
where at reasonable prices. The age
of investment is passing. Now is the
time for action Here is another OPP
portunity for the young men of to-
day.
Foot Wear for the Creamery.
Among the many problems which
are constantly confronting the cream
eryman. the one of what to wear upon
the feet for health, comfort, and econ
omy presents itself for solution, says
writer in Hoods Dairyman. Even
when constructed of smooth cement,
laid upon a proper grade, the cream
cry floor is necessarily more or less
wet, and the first answer to this ques-
ton would naturally be rubber. But
experience finds several objections to
the use of rubber, the greatest OF
which is, first, the cost; second, the
tendency to collect the moisture OF
perspiration on the inside, thus max
ing the feet become damp; third, the
lack of durability, as the action or
the warm water and the brine on the
outside, and the heat and moisture re-
tanned on the inside, coupled with the
constant scrubbing on the grindstone
surface of the cement, soon reduces
them to a half-rOtten, leaky, germ
laden. unhealthy piece of wearing ap-
parel.
The ordinary leather shoe lacks
many of these Objectionable features,
but the constant contact with the wet
floor gradually vets through the soles,
and rots them. Some time ago, no.
ticed in the catalogue of one of the
Chicago supply houses, the description
of a wooden-soled shoe, for use in
damp places. They being cheap in
price, I concluded to give them trial
The soles are about q of an inch
thick, carved to fit the shape of the
bottom of the foot, the uppers are
of leather By keeping the leather
part we'll oiled, these shoes keep the
feet clean, dry, and comfortable, and
give promise to outlast by far, any
thing which I have ever tried. For