Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-05-03
CREAMERY WILL PAY.

DALLAS, Or, May Ito tn
Editor Having read with niue
interest your editorials on the dair
interests of Dallas and vicinity,
desire to express my approval of al
you have said, and in plain way t
add something farther in the way o
self-evident facts that will prove t
the most skeptical that Dallas, OF al
the up-country towns, is the best stu
ated for dairying, on account of it
superior train service.
With its % trains from all directions
daily, and this number soon to bt
increased, Dallas is the railroad
center of the Willamette Valley
When the Dallas and Falls City rail
road is extended to Salem, we will
then be the center of four of the very
finest dairy districts, all tapped by
steam or electric roads, ready and
anxious to carry the milk Of the
thrifty farmers to a creamery at
Dallas. You will find by conversing
with many farmers who ship their
milk through Dallas to other towns
that they are only impatiently waiting
for a creamery in Dallas, when they
will become its enthusiastic patrons
and supporters.
AS you say, Mr.. Editor, the timber
from which our beautiful little city is
now reaping a golden harvest will not
last always; but the mighty swath
now being moved west from Dallas,
ten miles wide, will soon be open for
the actual settler, who, no doubt, will
soon make it one of the finest dairying
regions in the world. With such an
addition to the already peerless con-
ditions of this vicinity, there is no
reason why western Polk County
should not surpass any other portion
of Oregon for the manufacture of the
product of the COW. With the mild
climate of this locality, with half
county snugly ensconced in bow of
the Coast mountains, whose sunny
slopes will some day be the most pro-
life producers of milkmaking forage
in the world, it seems to me that the
present conditions for dairying
around Dallas are almost ideal.
The hills and valleys of western
Polk County will produce rotation
of green crops the year round under
proper management. This is very
essential condition, for green stuff
must be had, either by nature or by
silo. With a warm, equable, moist
climate, almost free from frost, this
locality is destined some day to be-
come as famous as the noted blue
grass region Of Kentucky.
Mr.. Editor, too have seen those
milk cans piled up at the depot for
shipment to other towns, and have
several times been called upon to give
a satisfactory reason why this locality
was being drained of its resources to
build up some other locality. OF
course, answered to the best of my
ability; but, to tell you the truth, it is
an uphill business to attempt to give
a reason where none exists, unless
one finds fault with ones own town,
and this have never done and shall
not do now.
Having accomplished the greater
things in the timber business, why
not, as you suggest, have co-opera-
tive creamery in Dallas, the stock to
be owned by the business men of the
town and the farmers Of the surround
ing country? There is great induce
ment, it seems to me, for the producer
OF milk to own stock in manufacture
ing concern where he furnishes the
raw material for manufacture and
receives his cash on pay day at the
highest market price, with his profits
added. He thus becomes a producer
and a manufacturer at the same time,
and receives two profits on the same
material, viz. the profit on the pro-
duction and the profit on the manu-
facture. The writer is not an expert
in dairying, and an attempt to give
expert advice would be out of place,
but he has not gone through this
world without seeing that the manu-
featuring Of milk into food products,
especially on the cooperative plan, is
a sure winner.
Then let us make this appeal: For
the financial benefit of Dallas and its
surrounding farmers; for the credit
of a town with money galore, and
never yet known to fail when money
was needed to build up its business,